leon
05-10-2008, 10:58 AM
Good morning to all.
Well last night I decided to get up at 1am and capture this Small Mag Cloud, you know the one that I only got half of the night before, :whistle: I will post it as bit later.;)
Anyway, everything was fine, the scope was humming away, and the focus was right, so now to get it guiding, opened up PHD, did the usual stuff, found the star that I wanted and clicked the icon to get it to calibrate.
I waited and waited, and then it told me in no uncertain terms, CANNOT CALIBRATE ON THIS STAR, NOT ENOUGH MOVEMENT, :rolleyes: Ok I thought, I must have done something wrong, and started it from scratch, but again it told me it couldn't calibrate because the Star was not moving enough. :shrug:
Figuring there was something wrong with the scope, I checked it all out and all seemed fine, tried many more times, but still the same response, from PHD.
Bugger, I was not to waste this early morning, had lost an hour anyway with daylight saving.
I then stopped the whole set up and slewed it around a bit and found another Star, the smallest I could get, surly there will be movement in this little bugger.
As it turned out, it locked on and stayed there all night, perfect guiding, but I also found that the numbers and stuff that one can see flash up periodically were very few and far between, but this happens most times when guiding, I seem to get very little movement once I have a Star locked in.
Am I to assume that it wasn't getting much movement because the mount is pretty well spot on to the South Pole, and/or would the fact that the SMC is pretty close to the pole, with slower movement than straight up, or maybe a combination of both, I would be interested to know. ;)
Leon :thumbsup:
Well last night I decided to get up at 1am and capture this Small Mag Cloud, you know the one that I only got half of the night before, :whistle: I will post it as bit later.;)
Anyway, everything was fine, the scope was humming away, and the focus was right, so now to get it guiding, opened up PHD, did the usual stuff, found the star that I wanted and clicked the icon to get it to calibrate.
I waited and waited, and then it told me in no uncertain terms, CANNOT CALIBRATE ON THIS STAR, NOT ENOUGH MOVEMENT, :rolleyes: Ok I thought, I must have done something wrong, and started it from scratch, but again it told me it couldn't calibrate because the Star was not moving enough. :shrug:
Figuring there was something wrong with the scope, I checked it all out and all seemed fine, tried many more times, but still the same response, from PHD.
Bugger, I was not to waste this early morning, had lost an hour anyway with daylight saving.
I then stopped the whole set up and slewed it around a bit and found another Star, the smallest I could get, surly there will be movement in this little bugger.
As it turned out, it locked on and stayed there all night, perfect guiding, but I also found that the numbers and stuff that one can see flash up periodically were very few and far between, but this happens most times when guiding, I seem to get very little movement once I have a Star locked in.
Am I to assume that it wasn't getting much movement because the mount is pretty well spot on to the South Pole, and/or would the fact that the SMC is pretty close to the pole, with slower movement than straight up, or maybe a combination of both, I would be interested to know. ;)
Leon :thumbsup: