Seems my SXP has died... flatline at 20:56 on 29/03.
OK, OK, I keep on going on about it, but this always brings a smile to my dial after fighting a few mounts over the years. The fact this Vixen SXP KEEPS doing this, session after session just awes me.
And just for the Polish naysayer, see, not guiding on a hot pixel
OK, I still have it set to pixel RMS, but go tell someone that cares
Let's see which smarty can figure out the target based on that guide image
That's very good that you are pleased with your mount Lewis
For the record, I never suggested that you guide on a hot pixel
But I recall you promising that the next graph will have a meaningful scale in arcseconds...
EDIT: With a 7x50 finder scope and Lodestar image scale would be about 10 arcseconds per pixel. Going for the graphs, total RMS error is about 0.08 pixels x 10 = about 0.8 arcseconds total RMS guiding error. This is more than enough when imaging at about 2.5 arcseconds per pixel, so the mount is perfect for the job.
Page 376 in the manual states that this option is greyed out as a safety feature when guiding is really bad, so that the user does not get a real cardiac arrest
But more seriously, I believe you need to provide your autoguider's pixel size and guidescope's focal length somewhere in the settings to be able to select arcseconds instead of pixels. Or perhaps the software (phd2?) needs to be updated.
Page 376 in the manual states that this option is greyed out as a safety feature when guiding is really bad, so that the user does not get a real cardiac arrest
But more seriously, I believe you need to provide your autoguider's pixel size and guidescope's focal length somewhere in the settings to be able to select arcseconds instead of pixels. Or perhaps the software (phd2?) needs to be updated.
Running 2.6.4dev9. PHD acquired the pixel size etc itself.
Same setup both computers yet i cannot use arc sec on the imaging one. I reset the cam settings now and rebuilding dark libraries again.
Seems my SXP has died... flatline at 20:56 on 29/03.
OK, OK, I keep on going on about it, but this always brings a smile to my dial after fighting a few mounts over the years. The fact this Vixen SXP KEEPS doing this, session after session just awes me.
And just for the Polish naysayer, see, not guiding on a hot pixel
OK, I still have it set to pixel RMS, but go tell someone that cares
Let's see which smarty can figure out the target based on that guide image
Auto Guiding.... thats cute. I remember the days when I used to guide.
Picture is unguided and pec disabled.
Hey remember that eq5 you sold me? It now does 10 minute exposures unguided. I did have to modify it a bit though, and added some stuff to it.
