Brian,
? ? ? ? ? ?Apologies for the delay in responding. I did a few more tests and adjusted the wormgear and all to see if there were any improvements. Sadly, I didn't notice much. I am attaching additional guide logs with mount speeds changed from .4 to .5. Calibration was performed after the speed change was implemented. ALso just to be sure I installed The PEMPRO and ran it thrice. The first was taken without any adjustments to the worm. The second graph is when I noticed binding/grinding in the DEC & RA and thus loosened them a bit.?
NOTE : For the first two graphs, PEMPRo determined my Image scale was around 6 arc/sec and guiding rate was 1 but in reality the scale is 2.02 arc/sec and guide rate was .4. Thus I performed the operation a third time with adjusted values and got better results. Incase you are unable to see the PEMPRO results here is a condensed version :?
Run 1 ) Peak to Peak : 30.26 Arc/secs , RMS : 10.99 Arc/secs
Run 2 ) Peak to Peak : 35.79 Arc/secs , RMS : 11.56 Arc/secs
Run 3) Peak to Peak :? 12.03 Arc/secs, RMS : 3.85 Arc/secs
Unfortunately, the PMC-8 is a closed system so I cannot input these values into my mount to improve my PE. Guiding is the only way to rectify this. But is this in anyway explaining the issue I am facing with my mount? Attaching phd2 guidelog and the PEC results
Sunil
