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Old 22-10-2013, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by PRejto View Post
Hi Logan,

I have never touched the RA plungers so it wouldn't be that. I did post the old/new curves over at the CCDWare forum. Ray said he thought my curves looked odd and will investigate. Odd or not, the old curve certainly worked well. I think some of the MX mounts show up the pinion gears and you see those quick almost sinusoidal waves up/down. Maybe that is what looks odd to him. We will see.

Thanks,

Peter
Your PEC Curve looks nothing like mine. Mine is much more gentle up and down with only a little bit above and a little bit below the midline on both my PMX and PME. As I recall there are different curve fitting algorithims you can use.

The first time I did PEC curves they looked like that and did not improve tracking on my PMX. I redid them on a night of good seeing and after I had improved PA and did a 20 minute run.

Was this done with Pempro or Sky X?

But the bottom line is do they work and if you are getting round stars in 10-15 minute exposures then you have arrived and I would stop fiddling with it.

Greg.
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