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Old 01-02-2014, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by SkyViking View Post
Hi Paul, despite the seemingly large amplitude of the curve, does it actually impact your guiding? The curve looks very smooth, which is all that should matter for guiding performance. It's usually only abrupt changes that cannot be guided out.
Of course if the mount is expected to have less PE then surely you'd want it fixed, but in the meantime I suppose your imaging would not be affected anyway given the smoothness of that curve )
Actually the RA axis is a sine wave when guiding and it is impacting on the size of the stars and the sharpness of the detail.

I would be interested to see other PMX users guide graphs with long focal lengths just so I can get a gauge of what I should be looking at here.
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