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Old 10-02-2014, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies View Post
  • PME tracking rate too fast(??!!) Stars constantly drifting west - quite rapidly. I had noticed this before using the Tak but let it be guided out. At the longer FL it's now very obvious. Reducing the rate to 99.85% eliminated all residual drift in RA. I've seen others report this on the SB site but they were dismissed with the catch-all recommendation to invoke Protrack to remove polar alignment issues
  • Still need to invoke ProTrack and see if this addresses part or all of the tracking rate issue mentioned above (if I restore it to 100%)
Hi Marcus,
was the drift you observed, without Protrack on and without autoguiding? simple flexure of the imaging train will have a similar effect to this I would imagine, which protrack will take care of.
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