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Originally Posted by grantboxer
Hi All,
I tried guiding with PHD on my HEQ5 mount but found the guider did not keep up with Comet Lemmon. I had the mount tracking siderial and the guider set on the comet. Any secrets here or settings that might need to be changed to follow comets?
Cheers Grant
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Hi Grant,
A couple of things to try.
Click on the brain funtion in PHD and set calibration step to between 1500 and 2500.
It may not aquire yet, move away from the comet to a star with a lower dec.
Make sure the star is on the same side of the meridian as the comet.
Go through the calibration steps and once guiding on the star stop the guiding. Move back to the comet and re-aquire.
This should work, it worked for me.
If it still won't work, you may need to take a dark frame.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Justin.