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Ryan
Lovely image , plenty of detail , nice colour has an eerie feel to it
Nice job !!
Any reason why you didn’t choose PHD2 for your guiding ? ( its extremely reliable, popular worldwide, user friendly and free ) I’ve read a few reviews on CN about Nexguide and most agreed it was painful to use especially locking onto and maintaining a guide star
I’ve been using PHD2 for 3 years now with my ZWOASI120MM and 50mm guide scope on the HEQ5 under Bortle 8 and never have any trouble with finding a guide star and locking onto a guide star especially when using a PHD2 bad pixel map or building a PHD2 dark frame library which takes no time at all
My imaging payload using my 6” f6 newt is about 9kg
I use PHD2 on my 8” f5 newt and EQ6-R mount with 60mm guide scope and same camera ZWOASI120MM , imaging payload around 14kg
Average guiding numbers with HEQ5 is around 1.20 to 1.50 arc sec
Average guiding numbers with EQ6-R is around 0.70 to 1.00 arc sec
With PHD2 no issue with 5 minute subs and pinpoint stars on both mounts ( pending conditions) , although dithering does tend to knock the dec around a lot on the HEQ5 but no issue with a big dither on the EQ6-R mount , it’s a solid gutsy mount and performs significantly better than its smaller brother the HEQ5
It really is “Push Here Dummy”
Why not give it a try ?
Cheers
Martin
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