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Originally Posted by jcm
Hi All,
I would be very interested to know if anybody has done any auto guiding using the guide port. I have seen a comment on another web site about "spikes" on the guiding graph.
John
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I finally managed to get the EQ8 with the CCD/FW combo going on my BabyQ that I liked. So it is now ready for some serious imaging. So last night I had it in place but with a piggyback guidescope and using a Lodestar as a guidecam.
I found (again) that I have to recalibrate my guiding every time I start Maxim - which surprised me since in the past and on my other mounts, Maxim would remember the calibration settings from the previous session. Not a big pain, but a pain all the same.
Once guiding settled down - and it takes longer on this mount that any other I've had - it does not have any spikes - in fact it's pretty darned smooth - but I'm only guiding at about 300 mm FL so you wouldn't expect too many wild swings but all in all, I think it guides pretty well.
All the auguries are pretty good from my perspective.
Peter