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I posted the following in the Software Bisque Forum yesterday:
Test 1. OTA on East side of mount. Train PEC fails and puts an inverted correction into Bisque PEC.
Test 2. OTA on West side of the mount. Train PEC fails putting in an inverted correction.
Test 3. OTA on East side. Camera produces a mirrored image (I used an ONAG). Train PEC succeeds
Test 4. OTA on West side, Mirrored image, PEC succeeds.
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Success was measured by comparing the successful PEC generated by PEMPro to TheSkyX results.
All of these tests were done with the new "Train PEC" option. I used my main imaging camera at .5 arc-sec for the first 2 tests, and 1 arc-sec for tests 3/4. The imaging camera was calibrated and x was not aligned with RA (as requested bt Software Bisque).
I have noticed (as others have also reported) that if the PEC is incorrect the 2nd part of Train PEC also fails. I believe this is because the incorrect inverted PEC drives the guide star out of the guiding box before the second part of Train PEC starts up. Perhaps using a much larger guiding box would solve this problem, however, the fact that the guide star is lost is an instantaneous warning that Train PEC has failed.
Thus far, no response from Software Bisque..... Hopefully this will lead to a repair.
Peter
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