Open PHD Guiding

As we've suggested, I think you're past the point where staring at the guide logs is useful.

>>>I think it was a faulty cable that definitely happens, hopefully you've found the

Trying experimenting with it this way: 1. Make sure you are guiding normally with the guider exposure

Do you have a picture from the opposite side? the guiding setup and the CAA is blocked by the ASIAir

Your initial post after joining is moderated, I explained that in the 'welcome' message I

The log files you uploaded were from a session on 5/24 and they show a reasonable calibration using

Hi Bruce, This is great information to know and something I haven't seen in the manual. I too

Where do you get seeing that good? I'm envious. Sent from my iPhone On May 18, 2026, at 6:23 PM,

In addition to the various diagnostic imaging options, you can always do a File/Save to capture

>>>I ran guide assistant after the calibration and I think that is the 1st 3 minutes. Would

>>>Do harmonic mounts have a preferred preload direction - in the easterly or westerly

FYI.... I applied the PPEC settings to 'mimic' a PE curve as you suggested. It made a very

If you get a decent calibration, just keep using it, you're not going to get anywhere trying to

Sounds good Phil Brian On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM Phil Bordelon <pbor...@gmail.com>

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