Hi Jamie,
I followed the recommended PemPro PEC programming method, and so far have found it to make things worse.
By "worse", what do mean?
1. Autoguiding appeared worse with PEC enabled?
2. Or the measured periodic error with PEC enabled was greater than disabled?
3. Something else?
-Ray Gralak
Author of PEMPro
Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):
Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver:
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jamie Amendolagine
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 1:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Losmandy_users_io] PEC training
I followed the recommended PemPro PEC programming method, and so far have found it to make things worse. I'm
assuming that it's operator error, me being the operator. I expect that it will improve things if done right, but I haven't
seen that yet. The problem is that I'd rather spend time imaging when conditions are good enough for that, so PEC
training doesn't get much of my time.
I'm wondering why it did go wrong for me though. For one thing, I only recorded 1/2 hour for the PEC training instead
of the recommended 1 hour. For another I'm not sure if the seeing conditions were good enough for PEC training.
Does bad seeing have a big enough of an effect on PEC training to make it worth waiting for a good night to do it? One
more thing is that I'm just not sure if the PEC training that I did, got loaded into the mount. I'm not sure how to verify
that PemPro loaded it.
We're supposed to get some rain here soon, so maybe there's something I can do with PemPro connected to the
mount indoors to verify everything is loaded, and the data is good.
Jamie
