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Originally Posted by DJT
hate to say this but let everything run in PHD at default and whack a regular eye piece in your guidescope just to make sure there are stars in your field of view. What were you imaging or is this a general issue?
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More of a general issue. Had a great fine night on Friday so went back out.
Was able to actually see stars through the camera and got it guiding fine, although even with gain at 100% (camera gain, not PHD gamma) the stars were faint, but it was guiding fine.
I tried to drift align with PHD but after maybe 10seconds or so PHD would lose the star so the graphing wasn't very accurate.
I thought i had aligned it fairly well, so i tried to do an align with the synscan hand controller (3 stars). First star was Rigel. Told it to go-to and then had a look through the eyepiece. Wasn't even close to Rigel. As i don't have a guidescope (will rectify that soon) on either of the scopes i spent awhile moving around until i found it.
Had difficulty finding the next two stars as well, and after an hour gave up for the night.
This weekend is looking to be good weather wise so i will try again with a guidescope.