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Originally Posted by Wilsil
Steve, what gear are you using?
Like main scope, guide camera, guide scope or OAG?
The combination of the correct FOV for the guide camera is important.
Other questions are:
- can you get the guide camera focused?
- as Martin mentioned, are you using pulse guiding?
- What mount are you using? As a Skytracker or similar has a different setting.
- Did you enter the correct parameters for you guide camera and guide scope?
But as said, many of us are using PHD2 without any issues. I must admit I struggled in the beginning, but that was all solved after using the correct setting.
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Hi Wilsil,
Thanks for the reply.
Okay, fairly straight forward setup and I have checked to ensure my guide scope and the OTA are compatible using an online calculator.
The mount is a Skywatcher EQ8 (not the newest version)
The main scope is a Meade 10" SN at F4.
The guiding rig is piggybacking the SN, one atop the other, and is an Orion Starshoot autoguiding camera with the Orion 80mm refractor.
The guide camera is focused and it is connected to the mount so I'm thinking it is pulse guiding (happy to be re-educated).
All of the parameters are correct for the set up, I've checked that a few times.
The issue I have is maintaining the guide star within 2 arc seconds, it bounces all over the place, off the page quite often and then comes back in one huge leap.
I've tried different exposure times from 1 sec to 6 sec and nothing changes, it just keeps on doing the same thing.
So I'm at a loss.