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Originally Posted by Startrek
Ryan
Since you don’t use any laptop, software or other devices and your standalone ,I assume you just use the mounts hand controller to find objects and track the night sky on sidereal
How are you polar aligning and guiding ?
Interested to know as your imaging is excellent !
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Thank you Martin. Yes you’re correct, I just use the hand controller to go to the object and the mount’s sidereal for tracking. My hand controller is also used to get polar aligned moving backwards and forwards from alignment stars until my PA error is less than 10s on RA and Dec. Guiding then comes from a 80/400 skywatcher scope mounted to my OTA with a Nexguide standalone auto guider in its bum. I don’t have PHD2 guiding to give me a graphic of what the guiding is like but I generally stand at the guider for a few mins after I start guiding and just look at how many interjections are made in both axis. As far as dealing with the accuracy of the go to. I take test shots which are generally shorter than my subs and I look at reference stars or star patterns and adjust accordingly..... I guess that’s manual plate solving too. I do accept that over a few different nights of imaging the same object, I may be off by up to about 50 pixels. This just means I lose those 50 pixels at the edge of my image when I stack them together.
I think that covers my methods but if I’ve missed anything, feel free to ask. And again, thank you for you warm praise of my imaging
