G11 G2 guiding attempts.

[mill (Martin)]

Like Darren i had lots of guiding problems and my QHY5 died, so i had to get a guider quick.

With the guider cable just about every image was a total loss.
After a while the guide star just moved away.
Then i took the cable off and did the guiding thru ascom, mucho better
For this test i just plonked the mount on three tiles and leveled.
Still have to drift align
So the stars in the corners are not good at all (remember this was just a test to get everything working).

All the pics are 10Min Luminance and 100 to 200 Sec RGB and about 8 exposures each except for Omega Centaury wich has shorter exposures.

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And here are the smaller res images:

[TrevorW]

Well regardless not a bad effort

[h0ughy (David)]

i am confused - you are guiding? nice framing and images for sampling, but I know that the G2 has got a few issues


Description

The following list is features that is reported as
not working or have very limited functionally at this time:

*Alignment - use synchronize from Web interface only please
*Pec
*Limits - Can be set, but reported not to work by some
*Meridian Flip


Please Remember that the Firmware for this controller
is still under development and being beta tested.


Here is a list of what is reported as working.

*Goto Functions - Limited by 2 star alignment
*Firmware updates by web
*DHCP and IP routines.
*Reading GPS units through serial input.
*USB-B Port
*Both Serial Port interfaces
*Mount selections between G8, G11, MI-250 and
HGMTitan (Titan 50) and Titan 200
*Hand Controller buttons Front and back
*Old Style 4 button Hand box.
*Guiding
*Web Site and time Setting.
*Hand controller(HC) time and coordinate setting
*HC in English, Deutsch Francais
*HC color and Dimming setting
*Thousands of catalog objects in HC and web interface
*Battery, power and port monitoring in web interface
*The Gemini.net ASCOM driver

[mill (Martin)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Well regardless not a bad effort

Thank you Trevor

Originally Posted by h0ughy

i am confused - you are guiding? nice framing and images for sampling, but I know that the G2 has got a few issues


Description

The following list is features that is reported as
not working or have very limited functionally at this time:

*Alignment - use synchronize from Web interface only please
*Pec
*Limits - Can be set, but reported not to work by some
*Meridian Flip


Please Remember that the Firmware for this controller
is still under development and being beta tested.


Here is a list of what is reported as working.

*Goto Functions - Limited by 2 star alignment
*Firmware updates by web
*DHCP and IP routines.
*Reading GPS units through serial input.
*USB-B Port
*Both Serial Port interfaces
*Mount selections between G8, G11, MI-250 and
HGMTitan (Titan 50) and Titan 200
*Hand Controller buttons Front and back
*Old Style 4 button Hand box.
*Guiding
*Web Site and time Setting.
*Hand controller(HC) time and coordinate setting
*HC in English, Deutsch Francais
*HC color and Dimming setting
*Thousands of catalog objects in HC and web interface
*Battery, power and port monitoring in web interface
*The Gemini.net ASCOM driver

The guiding works good when not using the internal guiding of the guide camera.
When using the internal guiding with the cable it all goes south

There are more issues like loosing rsr232 connection on port one and no connection thru the web interface with thesky6 and another few niggly annoyances like having to cold start via the hand controller or the mount thinks it is in the northern hemisphere

But all in all, even with bad polar alignment it works good.
Now it is just waiting for a firmware update.

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by mill

Thank you Trevor



The guiding works good when not using the internal guiding of the guide camera.
When using the internal guiding with the cable it all goes south

There are more issues like loosing rsr232 connection on port one and no connection thru the web interface with thesky6 and another few niggly annoyances like having to cold start via the hand controller or the mount thinks it is in the northern hemisphere

But all in all, even with bad polar alignment it works good.
Now it is just waiting for a firmware update.

Wow i think i might hold off swapping my G11 G1 with my new HGMtitan with g2 in the observatory, at least the g1 is working with the autoguider until that update comes out

[mill (Martin)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

Wow i think i might hold off swapping my G11 G1 with my new HGMtitan with g2 in the observatory, at least the g1 is working with the autoguider until that update comes out

You could use the G1 on the HGM Titan could you??

[desler]

I rekon they're great Marty, considering the trying conditions.
It's just fun being out under the stars!

Darren

[Hagar (Doug)]

Coming along nicely Marty. Glad to see your inovative approach to the incomplete Gemini software. Shame you couldn't get gear that just works out of the box. It should happen but seems to be the way astro gear comes these days.
You are doing well Mate. Keep at it.

[mill (Martin)]

Originally Posted by desler

I rekon they're great Marty, considering the trying conditions.
It's just fun being out under the stars!

Darren

Thanks mate
Lucky i love tinkering

Originally Posted by Hagar

Coming along nicely Marty. Glad to see your inovative approach to the incomplete Gemini software. Shame you couldn't get gear that just works out of the box. It should happen but seems to be the way astro gear comes these days.
You are doing well Mate. Keep at it.

Thanks mate

It must be the same as the Gemini 1 when it just came out
I knew the guiding would be a problem and solved that by not using the guider cable and switch off pulse guiding and precision pulse guiding in the ascom.net driver.

Now i am waitng again for stars so i can do a proper drift alignment