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Originally Posted by peter_4059
Chris,
Once it is showing connected for both the camera and mount,
1. I assume you are clicking the looping button (second from left at bottom) to get an image from the camera and you see stars in the main window?
2. PHD2 automatically selects a good guide star if you click Alt-S. A small green box will appear around the star.
3. You then click the guide button (third from left at bottom). PHD2 will draw yellow dashed cross hairs over your selected star and start the calibration routine moving the scope east, west, north and south.
4. When the calibration step is complete the yellow dashed lines turn green and guiding commences - you will see corrections/errors appear in the guide graph.
Are you seeing each of these steps? If not where does it fail?
There is also the manual guide option to test whether PHD2 can actually move the mount.
The only setting in the EQ6 sysnscan to check is the ST4 autoguide rate - on my hand controller this is located under the "SETUP\Autoguide Speed" menu (I'm assuming you are using the hand controller and not EQMOD?). Try setting this at 0.75x and press the enter key.
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Thanks Peter, if the weather allows tonight I'll go through each of these steps in order and try to isolate where it's breaking down.
The guy who owned the mount before me used PHD2 with it so I assume the autoguide rate is already set - I haven't touched it since buying it - but it's worth checking.
I kinda expect the laptop itself is the problem unfortunately - it's been a disaster since installing Windows 10.