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Old 27-02-2013, 01:34 PM
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Best PHD settings for QHY5L-II

Hi all. I just got myself a QHY5L-II (Mono) camera as a guider, and planetary imager.

I was out last night giving it a test run. I see that it is not directly supported by PHD - I need to select it as a WDM camera before it will work correctly. Im a bit confused about how I can use the ST4 port on the camera in this case?

Im assuming that I will need to use a direct connection to my mount, via a USB-DB9 connection the hand-controller, and get PHD to control it via ASCOM? (which I tried, and it works fine, but I thought I would check from the collective)

Also - what are the best camera settings to use? Initially I was presented with a horribly noisy screen, but after doing some adjustments to the camera settings, I was able to at least see some stars. Im not sure what I changed though

Any thoughts would be useful
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