PHD2 pulse guiding

[I.C.D (Ian)]

Hi All
I am having trouble with phd2 pulse guiding I have have movement in N/S but no movement East and West . The Mount moves in all directions with the hand control
Ian

[kens (Ken)]

Please post your guide log

[I.C.D (Ian)]

Hi Ken I hope this will help you ,I have notice that the RA is misaligned with my star maps .The next clear night I have I will do another 3 star align and see if that fix the problem.I remember reading about his a few years back in cloudynight were someone else had the same problem to with the RA.

Clear sky's Ian

[kens (Ken)]

The 2nd guide log looks fine (first one is empty).
Each segment is quite short but if I analyse the longest one (6m39s) with PHD Log Viewer it is clearly guiding out the PE of the mount on the RA axis.

What makes you think there is no movement E/W?

[I.C.D (Ian)]

G'Day Ken ,
I did a manual guide using my star map by connecting the mount and map then starting PHD2 manual guiding set the output as high as it will go and using the map an you can see if the mount is moving. In my case the mount will move north/south Dec but no movement West/East RA.After today I found that my RA reading on the Ascom slew panel didn't match the map, so when the smoke clears I am going to do a 3 star alignment and see if that fix it.
Ian

[kens (Ken)]

If you were near to the pole then it is quite possible that manual guiding in RA will not visibly move the mount. It should not be affected by star alignment. Another way to test is to do a calibration or a star cross test

[I.C.D (Ian)]

Thanks Ken for your support that is the next thing I was going to do ,I am still waiting for the bush fire smoke to clear up they say it wont be until the weekend when we get rain (which we need more then I need clear sky's) so it look's liker late next week before I can do it
Thanks again I will let you what the outcome is
Ian