Open PHD Guiding

John Bruce provided extensive detail, but i want to make sure the bigger picture is clear: the mount

Hi Behyar This may take some more analysis. You have a number of errors with your equipment including

thanks for reply Brian, much appreciated. re your numbered points: 1 - I use NINA and neglected to

Thank you very much !! I will now look at the indicated sites. El lunes, 4 de mayo de 2026 a las 15:

Hi Alan I think your reverse dec option is set incorrectly. You can see it accelerating away as

I see where suggestions that I need ASCOM drivers, but that shouldn't apply to Mac computers. For

You need to follow the instructions for 'getting help' and post both your guide and debug log

I don't really understand the problem you're having, but you're not required to use the

Thank-you, interesting that the imaging app (sharpcap) didn't tell guiding to stop (and then

dear Bruce, here is the result of the night https://openphdguiding.org/logs/dl/PHD2_logs_johq.zip it

Thanks Bruce, It was polar aligned to about 5' as I know I've got bad DEC backlash and one of

Thanks Bruce. Thanks for ruling out PHD2. I have the app pretty well tuned and this opportunity

Bob Please upload your guidelogs: https://openphdguiding.org/getting-help/ On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 1:

Sorry to interfect, what's the roadmap like for native Alpaca support in PHD2? On Sunday, April 5

Thanks again, the guiding was perfect without a new calibration Michel Le dimanche 19 avril 2026 à 23

Maybe Don means "guiding does not restart", not "tracking" ? There are only two

Bruce, Thanks for the info. I had all the cables hooked up correctly but couldn't figure out to

if you have isolated it to a computer my guess would be it is something with the USB ports or USB

I took the advice here: revisited mount mechanics, dark libraries, balance, dither settings. I seem

I think we need to clarify how this stuff works. When PHD2 is connected to the mount directly - via

I don't think there's much that can be said about this. Once you're guiding behavior is

Give me the weekend to sort some funds out. I would like to go ahead. Does it all function in its

Thank you so much for your help. What I try to do is have an RMS of about 0.5 - 0.6", because

Hello Bryan/Brian/Bruce: Quick update. Just heard back from Sky Watcher support. The checked the

Thanks for the update Chris On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM Chris Pendred <chris.p...@gmail.com

This is a new install on a new PC I purchased a while back. Windows 11 Nina EQ8 150ED Guide camera:

landarch283 please upload a link to your logs using the built-in log uploader. instructions here:

Will do that Brian, thank you very much and appreciate it! 2026 m. kovo 30 d., pirmadienis 08:50:38

I don't really see any improvement, the RA tracking is still pretty terrible. Here's what the

PHD2 is only estimating polar alignment error by measuring the rate of drift in declination. It