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Old 29-07-2021, 06:04 AM
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Sort of similar, in the case of guiding assistant though it is really about data collection to get suggested settings for minimum move triggers and backlash compensation. I use "Guiding" with the guide output disabled to simply have a look at how the mount is behaving on it's own, you can calibrate and start guiding then toggle the output on and off at will while PHD2 keeps on recording.


I was chasing guiding issues with my CEM70 and it made it obvious that guiding was actually degrading the performance not improving it so I went looking for why and sorted it out. You could see that the Dec was fairly stable and RA displayed the expected periodic error and all the errors were fairly smooth, but with the guide output turned on it started jumping around like a jack in the box, only to smooth back out again when the guide output was disabled.
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