Makes perfect sense and now that I’m seeing much better numbers after a few nights I am more confident using the platform at the FL I’m targeting.
Interesting that the swings with guiding were so erratic first few nights and then settled down. I changed too many variables at once to be sure, but I am starting to think I’d set the box for my OAG too small and the guider/mount/scope started chasing the seeing and making it worse.
Such are the silly things I do. The downside of being a n00b.
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Originally Posted by The_bluester
I think I would agree with that. I spent some time training the EQMOD PEC, but I could not make out any discernible difference in the guiding quality. I have had nights without it when I have had 0.6 arcsec total guiding errors and sometimes minutes between corrections, and noghts with it like that but jumpy, jittery nights too. I had a power outage which zeroed out the EQMOD PEC and didnt bother to retrain it after that given it means giving up on the best part of an hours good imaging time to train it.
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