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!