SX Guider Advice Anyone?Posted By Alec Hitchman |
Larry,
I don't have much experience with Astroart for guiding, but I know that I had problems changing between focal lengths when attempting to use MaximDL. After making sure that the focal length is set properly, Maxim has another setting which specifies how many seconds it moves the scope in each axis while it does it's autoguide "calibration".....at lower focal lengths, the move time must be increased so that it get a sufficient number of pixels movement to calibrate well.
Perhaps you also have flexure, as well?
All this being said, I have had sketchy results autoguiding with MaximDL, so perhaps I have no idea how to do it properly.
I go the easy route, and autoguide with my DSI Pro and Meades software. With that setup, I specify focal length, calibrate, and it always works fine, no other tweaking needed outside of aggressiveness.
Don't know if this helped or not...........
Regards,
Keith
I don't have much experience with Astroart for guiding, but I know that I had problems changing between focal lengths when attempting to use MaximDL. After making sure that the focal length is set properly, Maxim has another setting which specifies how many seconds it moves the scope in each axis while it does it's autoguide "calibration".....at lower focal lengths, the move time must be increased so that it get a sufficient number of pixels movement to calibrate well.
Perhaps you also have flexure, as well?
All this being said, I have had sketchy results autoguiding with MaximDL, so perhaps I have no idea how to do it properly.
I go the easy route, and autoguide with my DSI Pro and Meades software. With that setup, I specify focal length, calibrate, and it always works fine, no other tweaking needed outside of aggressiveness.
Don't know if this helped or not...........
Regards,
Keith
