Back into it with EQMOD

[Astroman]

Hi all,

After a short period without a mount etc.. I have finally got another one, a HEQ5Pro, which I will be using an 80mm F450mm Telescope along with a modified Finderscope for a guider... I have just got myself another EQDIR cable and am setting everything up again.

I remember way back when I had the EQ6 and running EQMOD I used to guide with PHD with pulseguiding. Unfortunately I am having issues trying to get PHD and EQMOD and my Planetarium program all talking to one another nicely. I keep getting a Connect Error message pop up and everything stops. EDIT: Found the problem, just needed admin privileges...

Looking forward to playing with the features of the latest EQMOD in real life, instead of playing it out on a simulator.

[2stroke]

Please pass on your PHD settings, being having a hell of a time here and have now just grabbed a gpusb to try st4 over pulse guiding. Really want pulse up and going for PEC ontop of things through eqmod :) Gamepad is the word if when last you were using it and didn't have the feature :) Dam has that made things so simple in the dark:thumbsup:

[Astroman]

Yeah I have been using EQMOD since pretty much the start, way back in v1.04 I think was the first one I tried... I moved up to using the gamepad once it was added.

PHD settings I am still working on, just got it working, but my Dec axis doesn't calibrate, not sure if thats a good thing or not. I hope it means I had awesome polar alignment :D

Will be trying some different settings tonight and see how they go...

[Astroman]

Hi Jay,

I was able to successfully calibrate and guide on a star using the below figures in PHD.

[mswhin63]

I have also been using EQMOD as well for a while and was up until a couple of weeks ago using PHD. Now I have switch to using EQAlign for guiding and what a major difference. As I am using a webcam for some reason the dark creation caused a brightening effect on PHD that caused the star to disappear or reduce locking capability. EQAlign now has a excellent dark subtraction for my webcam and my alignments are really great. Aggressiveness in EQMOD is high but easily reduced.

[Astroman]

Hi Malcolm, I had thought of using EQAlign for guiding, next time I am out and I get some clear skies I will give it a try. I had a problem with PHD and my Modified Webcam for long exposure, I hope EQAlign would fix this...