On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 02:37 AM, Michael Herman wrote:
More later...going to sleep now at 2:30 am...
Thanks Michael! I finally called it a night at 4 AM. LOL!
After the disappointing smeartation, I did venture into PHD 2 and tried out the Drift Alignment Tool.
That was easy to use, although I wondered if it was accurate.
So last night I used the Drift Alignment Tool first, then built my model.
Things worked a lot better! (I think) No Smeartation, anyway. Two victims.
No to an RA mounted scope. I tried one of those with my defunct and gone away AVX (POC!)
I do have Sharpcap. If I could remember to use it.
I basically just run as many 3 West, 3 East, 3 West, 3 East scenario's as needed until the stars are landing as near center as they will.
Last night (this morning) I did a PHD 2 Drift Align before running my Model. Centered up my victims, started PHD 2, and shot way. (No Meridian crossings, because I was aimed NNE)
So far, the PHD 2 drift align is easiest for me to work with.
I'm using an Orion SSAG camera, do run a dark library with it, and it has been the one piece of equipment that has always worked good from day 1. (It's a mono camera BTW)
My Jury is still out, but I think my bumbling onto the Drift Alignment Tool has helped. Can't hurt.
Thank You!
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SonnyE
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