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Old 21-02-2008, 10:54 AM
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PHD settings

I'm having a play with PHD as my guiding has not been crash-hot to date and would appreciate any tips from the gurus.

I have set Dec guiding to off. My research suggests that this results in guiding to address PE issues only and that I need to turn on Dec guiding as well as it is Dec guiding not RA guiding that corrects for a dodgy polar alignment. (Need I add that my polar alignment has been reasonably dodgy to date?).

If so, I switch Dec guiding to Auto.

Also, does anyone have any thoughts on the influence of a backlash % setting on PHD guiding? I read an interesting note somewhere suggesting that backlash should be set as low as possible to avoid the mount swinging back and forth too much.

I'm using an LXD75 mount with a laptop - no dedicated guide port unfortunately.

Lastly, is there a guide rate setting in Autostar? I can't find it but I have read that this needs to be set at 100%.

Thanks in advance

Pete
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