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Originally Posted by frolinmod
Training the PEC with this mount is trivial. Takes 30 minutes if you do it right. 15 additional minutes (for a final verification run) if you guessed wrong on the East/West check box. Although one guy can't seem to get his PEC to save to the mount, he probably just needs a new MKS-5000 board.
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Cant say I agree with this statement. It should be trivial but for some reason is not. I like to think of myself as heaving reasonable intelligence and and pretty handy with most software. I could not generate a PEC curve from CCDsoft and load it into MX using TCS as described in manual. No matter what I did it would have no effect or make things worse. Tried east west checkbox, camera orientations etc... all combos but nothing had any impact.
First time out with Pempro i was able to collect data and generate a PEC curve that I then manually loaded using TCS using cut and paste option. this worked perfectly and put me PE down to about +/- 1 arc sec.
I tried different daily builds etc.. and had no success. Still cant figure out what cause was. My guess is some kind of Southern Hemisphere glitch but just a hunch....I have not pursued getting it to work as its now working with the Pempro curve. Maybe some defects has been sorted now in Sky X TCS.
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Originally Posted by frolinmod
Default image link parameters really do work.
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Sometimes yes. But for very large CCD chips you do need to often play around with the Tools->Preferences->Advanced. "Bad pointing sample criteria (degrees):" entry
This needs to be raised to get plate solves to work sometimes. Especially on non fixed mirror setups when you cross the meridian and mirror shifts slightly.
I am in agreement however that for the money its a great mount. Any issues you have will be sorted. the fact that the new PME II has similar design and same control system is a plus as it means even more users will play with this and help iron out any niggling defects....