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Maybe you have the "track only sidereal" checked, or maybe you have "drag mode" selected? Dan

By Dan Gray · #29451 ·

Hi Huw, Basically you don't need to use POTH, and actually you should not use POTH. My system won't guide with POTH, but works fine with direct connection of PHD2 to SiTechDll. SiTech can operate as

By Don W · #29452 ·

system won't pulse guide

I'm still trying to get my long term project working, and now I can't get it to pulse guide, I'm sure it has been working, but some time ago. Everything is fine in wired ST4, just no Ascom guide. I'm

By huw.orwig@btinternet.com · #29450 ·

Re: Adjust RA tracking rate

Hi, Yes, that something more to add to my check list ! I am not sure if such flexures could lead to 20 s tracking errors on 10 min subs because the scope stay nearly in the same position

By Yann-Eric Boyeau · #29449 ·

Re: Adjust RA tracking rate

How about OTA/focuser flexure as a source of trackingerror? -Christopher Erickson Observatoryengineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa, HI 96738 www.summitkinetics.com

By Christopher Erickson · #29448 ·

Re: Adjust RA tracking rate

Hi Don, My time difference is very small =2.3,6.7mS. mSOffset=-26 So I am now confident that my Clock is OK. Mesu are really good mounts, that’s why I was surprised it did not manage to get

By Yann-Eric Boyeau · #29447 ·

Re: Adjust RA tracking rate

Hi Yann, Sorry, I don't see the jpg, Yahoo isn't very good about showing attachments. If after an hour your time difference is small, like less than 100 millisecond you are good, if it is thousands

By Don W · #29446 ·

Re: Adjust RA tracking rate

Sorry, there was something wrong with the attachment (png?), I put it again in jpg.

By yann_eric_boyeau · #29445 ·

Re: Adjust RA tracking rate

Hi Don, Thank you very much for your answer and advices. As described, I am very new to the Sitech controller and also to my new friction drive mount. I guess that multiple factors can make the mount

By yann_eric_boyeau · #29444 ·

Re: Adjust RA tracking rate

Hi Yann, A new mount should track properly. The Mesu mounts are very good and very popular. However I don't have one, so my answer is general to you. Tracking rate depends on both time and tic

By Don W · #29443 ·

Adjust RA tracking rate

Hi everybody, I am a new mesu/sitech user. I had 2 difficult first nights with the mount learning how it works. Last setup 0.92ge fixed my phd2 dec guiding rate being twice the RA rate. (0.92ge should

By Yann-Eric Boyeau · #29442 ·

Re: In-person mentoring needed

Hi Rob, Tracking and GoTo's with an Alt-Az mount depend on accurate setup both of the SiTech system and the overall setup each night in the field. First your mount must have a reliable drive system

By Don W · #29441 ·

Re: In-person mentoring needed

Turns out that I had an issue with a loose screw on a gear! And maybe some other mechanical issues. I’m back to a working scope again, but I could really use some help. What are the top 5 things I

By Rob Brown · #29440 ·

Re: SiTech.exe and TheSkyX not working together

Download a copy of the manual. Go to the “Find” tab. Do a find. Once the object is found, just click on the Closed Loop Slew button. That’s all you have to do. Make sure that image link is

By Ross Salinger <rgsalinger@...> · #29439 ·

Re: SiTech.exe and TheSkyX not working together [1 Attachment]

Thanks. I will try this the next clear night. This is an amateur question. How do you do a closed loop slew? My TheSkyX Pro Users Guide is not working.

By James Senter · #29438 ·

In-person mentoring needed

I have built an alt-az mount for my 12.5" scope. Until recently, it was working in Go-To (but not well). Then suddenly it is off by tens of degrees in Go-To. Tracking is working acceptably well. I've

By Rob Brown · #29437 ·

Re: SiTech.exe and TheSkyX not working together [1 Attachment]

I have exactly the same software. If you have T-Point running then just do closed loop slews,there is no need to synch Sitech. Doing this is likely to mess up the pointing model because now you have

By Ross Salinger <rgsalinger@...> · #29436 ·

SiTech.exe and TheSkyX not working together

I am usingthe SiTech Servo Controller II and Sitech.exe Ver. 092ge to control my mount and TheSkyX Pro Ver. 10.5.0(Build 11485) as my planetarium program. I have a good TPoint model and my mount is

By James Senter · #29435 ·

Re: Auto guilder connection issue

Hi Curtis, I was sure it was the cable. Glad to hear you got the right cable and it works. Don W ---In SiTechservo@..., <deepsky307@...> wrote : Hi Don, I got things working, It turns out for the 6

By Don W · #29434 ·

Re: Auto guilder connection issue

Hi Don, I got things working, It turns out for the 6 pin cable, one cable end needs to be a mirror of the other end to work correctly. I found one in my cable pile, plugged it in and problem

By Curtis MacDonald <deepsky307@...> · #29433 ·

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