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Hi Bo,
Got all enthusiastic last night despite the clouds and setup the GPUSB and PHD through the 80mm. OK, no stars available but I aimed the setup across the valley to some streetlights about 5 km away. They were wobbling around through the wind blown trees. Set up was
NexImage SSI camera, to USB on SONY Viao laptop to PHD. The GPUSB was plugged into the other USB port and to the ST4 connection on the mount. I set Tracking for zero so no head movement. Selected the Windows WebCam wmv mode ( no specific NexImage driver ) at 640 x 480, dropped the gain down to get dark contrast and focussed up. Selected one of the visible lights in the wee green box and started it up.
Piece of cake, it thought it had guiding going after about 10 minutes and when I engaged head drive it attempted to correct as the light drifted through the fov. 1 second rate, can't remember what the RA count was but the light was wobbling a lot.
I'm happy enough now that I have the mechanicals working that I will give it a go at the first opportunity I get out on the driveway. It wasn't too hard to do time or connection wise. I have a powered hub I'll throw into the equation next time to get some space back from the mount and we'll see if I can up my exposure times from there.
I just gotta do that Ob !!
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