Re: RA guiding awful after upgrade
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Thanks, Tom. You can use PHD log viewer to review the results of this log.?
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> ?Last night I adjusted the CW slightly so that it would be east-heavy.?
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When you say you adjusted it, what did you do? The weight needs to be re-adjusted after flipping to the other side of the mount to make sure the east side remains the heavier one. I'd just add a 2-3lb weight (a magnet?) to the CW on one side, and move it to the OTA side on the other.?
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It does appear that the error is significantly higher in RA on the west side of the mount, compared to the east. This is from the west side:
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And this is from the east. RA is better, although there are still occasional random spikes, though fewer and not as large:
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The large spike error doesn't repeat with the worm cycle, so is not caused by the worm (largest periodic error component seems to be at 2x worm cycle, magnitude of 1.4 arcsecs, so nothing major:
Regards,
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 01:20 PM, Thomas Kallenbach wrote:
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Paul Kanevsky