Garbz
15-07-2015, 09:50 AM
Has anyone had a problem where the PEC curve captured in EQMOD through pulse guiding doesn't automagically apply at the start of the night?
I'm running EQMOD with PHD2 and have no problem generating a great PEC curve. However as of late it appears as though the PEC curve no longer automatically loads at the start of the night.
My process for starting and shutting down is:
1. Boot up computer
2. Fire up all imaging programs.
3. In my pointing software I connect to EQMOD via ASCOM starting the EQMOD software which connects to the mount.
4. In PHD2 I then connect to the mount and my guidecam.
5. In EQMOD I unpark the scope and start the session.
Now I believe normally once you have recorded a PEC curve it should autoload the curve from here and go on imaging.
At the end of the session I:
1. Close PHD2.
2. In EQMOD issue the park command.
3. After EQMOD shows everything is parked I close the pointing software which also closes EQMOD as it is the last piece of software connected at this point.
4. Then I power down all my equipment.
Recently I have found I can not get a PEC curve to remain consistent between imaging sessions. The other night I noticed that my guiding was absolutely horrible and realised PEC wasn't running. So I hit play on the previously loaded curve and that just made everything much worse, so I stopped PEC and hit the record button. Some 40minutes later once 5 passes were recorded guiding was pretty sweet. Next night the same thing happened.
So the only thing I'm doing that may be slightly out of the ordinary is that I'm parking to a non-default position, but the software should be able to track that as it seems to remember where the mount is pointed. The other thing that may be confusing it is that my park position is slightly past the meridian. But again according to my pointing software it is tracking it's location correctly.
Has anyone else had a problem with PEC curves not remembering in EQMOD between sessions?
I'm running EQMOD with PHD2 and have no problem generating a great PEC curve. However as of late it appears as though the PEC curve no longer automatically loads at the start of the night.
My process for starting and shutting down is:
1. Boot up computer
2. Fire up all imaging programs.
3. In my pointing software I connect to EQMOD via ASCOM starting the EQMOD software which connects to the mount.
4. In PHD2 I then connect to the mount and my guidecam.
5. In EQMOD I unpark the scope and start the session.
Now I believe normally once you have recorded a PEC curve it should autoload the curve from here and go on imaging.
At the end of the session I:
1. Close PHD2.
2. In EQMOD issue the park command.
3. After EQMOD shows everything is parked I close the pointing software which also closes EQMOD as it is the last piece of software connected at this point.
4. Then I power down all my equipment.
Recently I have found I can not get a PEC curve to remain consistent between imaging sessions. The other night I noticed that my guiding was absolutely horrible and realised PEC wasn't running. So I hit play on the previously loaded curve and that just made everything much worse, so I stopped PEC and hit the record button. Some 40minutes later once 5 passes were recorded guiding was pretty sweet. Next night the same thing happened.
So the only thing I'm doing that may be slightly out of the ordinary is that I'm parking to a non-default position, but the software should be able to track that as it seems to remember where the mount is pointed. The other thing that may be confusing it is that my park position is slightly past the meridian. But again according to my pointing software it is tracking it's location correctly.
Has anyone else had a problem with PEC curves not remembering in EQMOD between sessions?