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I am/was a beginner so I can comment, for what it's worth, on my PMX experience. I had never even used a CCD camera before, though I had done a fair amount of planetary photography using a HEQ pro and a 4" refractor. I have to say I was completely overwhelmed by everything and it has taken months and months and months (not helped at all by poor weather, travel, observatory rebuilding, etc) to get where I am now. And I'm still not there! I'm much closer though!
Ernie is perhaps correct in saying that issues with TSX should be separated from issues with the MX, but unless one is experienced with the software, and experienced with automated type of mounts, the distinction is academic given that one cannot operate the MX without TSX!
I have now had the mount for I guess something over a year(?). My issues were compounded by having a camera that hated CCDSoft and barely worked with TSX, but just weeks ago those issues are finally solved thanks to great work from Evan Warkentine (he does the ascom stuff for SB). I can do fully automated T-Point runs and currently have a model of 187 points where PA looks quite good, but pointing isn't quite as good as I have seen. 4 min unguided shots do not look good at all, with or without protrack turned on. So, I wonder if I might be having trouble with PE and the worm block as others have written here - but I'm not nearly experienced enough to know if it might be something about my super model that is causing the issue and not PE. Anyway, I intend to do PE ASAP now that I have a camera that works.
Sorry, Greg, I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I know a lot of MX users are reading and might chime in. Many thanks.
Peter
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