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Old 14-07-2023, 11:41 PM
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g__day (Matthew)
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Decent guiding finally!

Well that was a slight oopsie on my point; I ran a 500 star Tpoint model and slightly adjusted my Dec - and my guding has been pretty decent (well within +/- 0.5 arc seconds) according to Open PHD - but it always said my polar alignment was between 1.7 - 2.5 arc minutes out.

No big deal - and I wondered if I did a slight goof somewhere - and I did. I forgot my telescope mounts handcontroller accounts for polar misalignment on both axes - and when I corrected my mounts alignment I didn't remembered to update my SkySensor2000-pc 3 point sky model. So it was still correcting for polar mis-alignmen on a slightly changed model of the sky.

Since updating the hand controller and re - running my imaging I am seeing a noticeable improvement! It now says polar mis-alignment is down to 0.5' and drift is about 0.13" per minute.

I feel like I have finally got the gear well tuned! Still some more improvements I can do - but this is rather pleasing after all the efforts!
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