Rene created a new topic ' AZ-EQ6 guide settings/tips' in the forum. 5 months ago

Hi all,

Apologies for the general nature of this questions but I saw a similar post for the AM-5 and thought I'd try the same thing for the SW AZ-EQ6.

Are there any owners of the AZ-EQ6 who could offer the settings they use for guiding? I generally run at 0.8-1 RMS and feel I can get more out of it.

Rene

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Rene replied to the topic 'How do I use Load and Slew?' in the forum. 9 months ago

It's set to 4-SmallScaleSolving. Is this correct?

I'm also downloading all of the remaining Index Files as I only had a few installed.

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Rene replied to the topic 'How do I use Load and Slew?' in the forum. 9 months ago

Hi Jasem,

I found out how to plate solve. The problem seems to be with the Internal Solver. When I switch to the Online Solver it sort of works. It plates solves and slews but then isn't able to align the image properly. It gets close but never completes.

When I'm using the Internal Solver, I get an error message that says there aren't enough stars, so I don't know what is going on. Any advice would be appreciated.

Rene

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Rene replied to the topic 'How do I use Load and Slew?' in the forum. 9 months ago

How do I plate solve the image. I can't figure it out.

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Rene replied to the topic 'How do I use Load and Slew?' in the forum. 9 months ago

I had Slew to Target selected. As for the steps to go through, I’ll try it tonight. Will it also rotate the image correctly? I have a Falcon Rotator and would like to know if this will take care of that as well.

Cheers

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Rene replied to the topic 'How do I use Load and Slew?' in the forum. 9 months ago
Rene created a new topic ' How do I use Load and Slew?' in the forum. 9 months ago

Hi all,

I'm confused as to how I use Load and Slew in the Align module. I've tried unparking the mount and loading an image, but nothing happens. I've also tried slewing to the target and loading a previous fits image and it says there aren't enough stars in the image and the align fails.

Would appreciate some help on how to use this feature.

Rene

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Rene replied to the topic 'I need help taking flats' in the forum. 9 months ago

True. I’ll do another stack and post the results.

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Rene replied to the topic 'I need help taking flats' in the forum. 9 months ago

Yeah that’s the values i used. But after I stacked in PI with WBPP. The image looked awful. I’m not quite sure what’s happening. Like I said when I stacked without flats the image looked fine.

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Rene created a new topic ' I need help taking flats' in the forum. 9 months ago

Hi all,

I need help in taking my flats. I used the flats calibration wizard to generate my flats frames. The image I got after WBPP was awful. It was full of artefacts that I couldn’t get rid of. When I stacked only the lights and master dark the image looked fine, without any of the artefacts.

So I was hoping someone could advise what ADU value I should use the flats wizard to get good flat frames. I have a SW 100ED Esprit, Optolong L-Ultimate filter, and asi2600mc.

Does anyone have the same or similar setup who can help me?

Oh and yes I take flat darks to calibrate with my flats.

Thanks in advance.

Rene

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Rene created a new topic ' Meridian Flip values' in the forum. 9 months ago

Firstly, apologies for the basic question. It's been 2 years since I last did AP and I'm slowly relearning everything. Last night I did some imaging with an AZEQ6 on my newly installed pier. I configured the meridian flip in Ekos and set it to flip when HA >5 degrees. I was about to go to bed when I started to doubt myself. I was worried the value may not be correct and the OTA would impact with the pier.

So, I was wondering if anyone in the community could point me in the right direction for the value that should be input for a meridian flip, or should I do some testing in the daytime to find the best value.

Thanks in advance.

Rene

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Rene replied to the topic 'Help with Polar Alignment' in the forum. 10 months ago

Sorry for another dumb question but is tracking on during the Alt and Az adjustments?

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Rene replied to the topic 'Help with Polar Alignment' in the forum. 10 months ago

Thank Hy. I managed to sort things out but was wondering if we leave tracking on during the PA routine or turn it off.

Rene

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Rene created a new topic ' Help with Polar Alignment' in the forum. 10 months ago

Hi all,

Well I’ve returned to AP after a 2yr break and the first night didn’t go according to plan (what a shocker). I had a couple of issues (one I think I’ve just figured out). The other issue I’m having is with polar alignment. I used to get really good PA when I last did it and was eager to try the new version. I went through the process and got to the point of adjusting and this is where it all went wrong. I chose the Plate Solve Method and made my adjustments while looking at the updated error. Now two things confused me:

1) there is a triangle and a circle on the screen and my assumption is that the circle should be adjusted along the triangle until it rests on the apex. Yet when I made my adjustments the error was reducing but the circle was nowhere near the triangle. If I tried to adjust while on the triangle the error got worse.

2) If I let my mount settle and take a couple of exposures the error got worse! Even though I did nothing. How can this be?


I like the new PA routine but need some help in how to use it.

Rene

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Rene replied to the topic 'Can't select guide cam as guider' in the forum. 10 months ago

Well that might explain why my guide calibration didn’t work last night. I’ve returned to AP after a 2 yr break and tried imaging last night. My calibration would either fail or if it did ‘succeed’ my guiding would fly off in both RA and Dec. After reading this post I noticed that I had my guiding optical train ion correctly setup. I was confused by what should go into the Guider field so I tried leaving it blank or putting the guide camera in their so that I had the guide camera in both the Camera and Guider field.

I’m assuming this is why my calibration failed?

So reading this I should put in my mount (EQ Mod)? That should make it work?

Rene

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