QHY PoleMaster users in the Southern Hemisphere

[Dennis]

Originally Posted by kkara4

haha - well i just packed up, and indeed i had to focus the polemaster. it was off by quite a bit - but very easy to adjust

during precise alignment i had a major issue. as i got towards overlapping the green and red, polemaster lost lock on one of the two stars suddenly and jumped around wildly.

i think care must be taken with the initial gain/exposure settings in this regard, and also to ensure focus is as reasonable as possible. i will need to do more experiments to determine if the exposure/gain settings were to blame for this behaviour.

once adjusted i did a second round and it went just fine, so i think the settings were the source of the problem.

That’s interesting behaviour and not something I have seen before. I think I’m on Software Version V1.3.2Beta1.

What software version were you using when the anomaly occurred?

Cheers

Dennis

[kkara4 (Krishan)]

Originally Posted by Dennis

That’s interesting behaviour and not something I have seen before. I think I’m on Software Version V1.3.2Beta1.

What software version were you using when the anomaly occurred?

Cheers

Dennis

hello Dennis, i am on the latest non-beta version as downloaded via the QHYccd polemaster website. Can't check at work so will report back tonight.

Further to this, it only happened as i was getting close to overlapping. it was just fine when they were further apart. even if i went very slowly on the AZ knobs it would lose lock at the same spot every time. so then maybe it wasnt the camera settings and something else. i did spend quite a bit of time on each step, maybe i was messing around with adjustments too long (like rotating 30 degrees and stuff).

i ended up restarting everything and trying again and it was OK but it would occaisionally twitch like it wanted to lose lock still.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

G'day mate. I'm using version 1.3.1 and haven't had that issue you're mentioning. From memory I did try the 1.3.2 beta and had some other issue with it (can't recall details), so uninstalled and stuck with 1.3.1 stable.

I just checked the QHY website out of interest and looks like there's a new stable version 1.3.2 released 24/10/16. Might download that and test.

[kkara4 (Krishan)]

Originally Posted by troypiggo

G'day mate. I'm using version 1.3.1 and haven't had that issue you're mentioning. From memory I did try the 1.3.2 beta and had some other issue with it (can't recall details), so uninstalled and stuck with 1.3.1 stable.

I just checked the QHY website out of interest and looks like there's a new stable version 1.3.2 released 24/10/16. Might download that and test.

hey Troy/Dennis, thats the version i installed . i remember the release date it said on the version history now that Troy mentioned it.