Hi: I’m new here and have recently bought the AA+ and the zwo120mm mini guide camera and mini guidescope. A few nights ago I set this equipment up using my Star Adventurer pro mount
(non- Wi-Fi). I have never guided before and it was the first time using the above equipment. I imaged the Triangulum Galaxy using the Skywatcher 72ED. Everything went really well and I
managed 60 x 2’ exposures. Using auto run I also took darks flats and bias frames. Every light exposure had perfectly rounded stars so I was pretty impressed. However, in spite of what I took I wasn’t happy with the guiding. I used all the default calibration steps of 2000ms. When I started guiding it went west step ( about 13 steps) and I expected it to go ‘east step’ by about the same amount. But it didn’t. I got a brief message to tell me that calibration ‘timed out’, that it was settling and it began guiding.. the guiding graph was very wild but eventually settled with a peak on the RA line at +/- 6. Was my calibration step too low or too high? I left the RA and DEC aggression to default most of the time before increasing the RA aggression?
From what I’ve read, there is a suggestion that for this guidescope and camera I should set the Calibration step to 8,000ms
Note: I had ‘auto restore calibration switched (OFF!) and not ‘on’ as in this screenshot. I also had
DEC mode switched ‘OFf’
I would really appreciate some help with these settings
