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Everybody,
Just some context here. I have a 180mm Skywatcher Mak-Cassegrain and a Meade DSI-II imager. I am about to buy a guide scope and another imager for guiding (probably a QHY5). My plan is to guide the telescope using PHD and to image using the Meade software.
Before I purchase the guide scope, I wanted to make sure that I could get my mount and PHD communicating. I wasn't planning to use a planetarium program to control the guiding sessions, instead pointing to the target using the Synscan hand controller and establishing autoguiding.
I am confused about the comments on connecting through the Synscan hand controller??
I am also confused about the comment about connecting to the port on the motor driver not working. Is there anymore detail here to help me understand this??
Sounds like my proposed setup is not sensible?????
Advice would be highly appreciated, including some sort of common sense, simple summary somewhere on how to setup autoguiding. My proposed set-up above seems similar to something I read on the shoestring astronomy website.
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