Imme
03-09-2018, 09:56 AM
Hi guys,
I have recently moved to an OAG from a guidescope.....mainly as a weight saving measure. Guiding through the scope was great and if I wasn't on the brink of my mounts weight limit I likely wouldn't have changed.
So, I have gone from a 280mm specific guiding scope to a 925mm guiding (image) scope.
In reality this means I am guiding on a scope approx. 3 times more magnified than previously.
Does this mean I should expect greater errors in my guide graph?
Is it reasonable to expect the greater magnification will result in what 'appears' to be greater errors compared to what I previously saw?
The reason I ask.......using the guidescope I always calibrated fine and I could keep the image/guiding to under 1 pixel on my guidegraph. Now with the OAG it’s pushing out to 2 pixels at times and I am getting a backlash error sometimes during calibration.
The only change to the rig is the OAG and an update to the latest version of PHD.
So I guess the question I have is this. If I am moving to a guiding scope that is 3 x times the length of the previous one is it reasonable to expect my guide graph errors 'could' also be magnified by that same 3 x multiplier?
Stars - yes, on the couple subs I did testing last night they seemed ok
I have recently moved to an OAG from a guidescope.....mainly as a weight saving measure. Guiding through the scope was great and if I wasn't on the brink of my mounts weight limit I likely wouldn't have changed.
So, I have gone from a 280mm specific guiding scope to a 925mm guiding (image) scope.
In reality this means I am guiding on a scope approx. 3 times more magnified than previously.
Does this mean I should expect greater errors in my guide graph?
Is it reasonable to expect the greater magnification will result in what 'appears' to be greater errors compared to what I previously saw?
The reason I ask.......using the guidescope I always calibrated fine and I could keep the image/guiding to under 1 pixel on my guidegraph. Now with the OAG it’s pushing out to 2 pixels at times and I am getting a backlash error sometimes during calibration.
The only change to the rig is the OAG and an update to the latest version of PHD.
So I guess the question I have is this. If I am moving to a guiding scope that is 3 x times the length of the previous one is it reasonable to expect my guide graph errors 'could' also be magnified by that same 3 x multiplier?
Stars - yes, on the couple subs I did testing last night they seemed ok