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Originally Posted by whzzz28
I seem to be the exact opposite; my PHD keeps up with the star, really well. But this does give me something else to think about. The star is moving south due to its position, so maybe when it is calibrating, it is stepping the move to move due south, thus 'keeping up with the star'?
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From my very limited experience, if your polar alignment was off and as such your stars drifted a lot to the point where PHD has trouble keeping up with it then it would be painfully obvious during calibration.
In calibration one of your 4 steps would push the star way out, and the opposite step would then fail to bring the star back to its starting point. End result is that if you overlay the ra/dec grid it wouldn't look like a grid at all, but rather parallel lines at funny angles.