Paul replied to the topic 'Internal Guider Issues' in the forum. 4 years ago

Deesk06 wrote: Hi everyone,

I have been having an issue lately with the internal guider. I believe there is something I am doing that is wrong, but I am not sure where to start.

First of all, my issue is that I am getting star trails when guiding. For instance, I took a 120 second guided and unguided image...and to my surprise the unguided image had round starts but my guided started to get elongation(RA Axis).

I was shocked when I saw that because it really doesn't make any sense. It has to be a setting that I had input correctly for the internal guider. The only thing is that I have been using auto star, so the calibration should have taken care of everything.

Another issue I am thinking of is differential flexure between my guide scope and main imaging scope.

Not sure where to start with this, if anyone has any ideas I am all ears


Deesk06,

This is possibly due to guiding on a hot pixel.

Set the guider to take a dark and see if the issue continues.

Paul

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