From: "richter1956" <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: December 4, 2007 2:44:57 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Astro IIDC Autoguiding Help!


Dear Milton,

after long time tonight i'm trying to set Astro IIDC for autoguiding.

I'm using a C8 f 6.3 with Imaging Source  BW 1024 768 camera and LXD 75 mount.

The software seems to calibrate in a good way with no errors.


When autoguide starts it seems to behave "nervously" looping fast into a certain number of 

pixels.

Even if the long period periodic error is defeated then i get a new high frequency smaller 

but continuous error.


The little star bounces and i can hear the mount working a lot clicking continuosly.

If i stop the guide then i can see the star steady.


I tried many set about the pixel sensitivity and seems that high pixel accuracy works a 

little better.

Anyway sometimes the mount perform a huge shifting then it returns back to behave 

normally... but that photo is with big trails.


Question : is there the possibility to "say" to the software to perform a check on the star 

and perform the relative correction every nt seconds?


I know that the LXD 75 is a cheap mount and maybe the problem is the mount itself.


Any suggestion?


Thank you in advance

Regards


Alberto Mayer


PS if you have remote desktop administrator  installed we could do a cyber-assistance!