Thanks you for the feedback. It was the kind of problem I was expecting. Reducing the guiding duration may help but I am skeptical about the fact that it will allow a smooth tracking (do not try to reduce update_delay in the script, it wiil have no effect as pyephem has a time resolution of 1s).

It would be better to control individually RA and DEC speed but I haven't found a standard way to do that. I will add a dedicated property in the driver of my homemade mount. For other drivers I was thinking about timed pulse guide but it seems to be limited to very low speed. Do you have an idea ?

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