Problem for connected camera

[Stéphane Chabert]

Hi, first time on the forum. 

I have trouble to connect one of my two cameras Moravian. 

I use for imaging a Moravian C1x 26000 color and for guiding a Moravian CG-3000A. I installed all the ASCOM drivers.

I have no problem to connect the two cameras in NINA but in phd2 in the star menu i only see my CG-3000A. Impossible to create a new profil with the C1x.

I would like to use Polar drift align to ensure my polar alignment which very bad (see the log)

If you could help.

Kinds regards

Stephane

https://openphdguiding.org/logs/dl/PHD2_logs_7fcR.zip

[Bruce Waddington]

I don't really understand what you're trying to do.  The CG-3000A is suitable for use as a guide camera so why are you trying to connect PHD2 to the C1 color camera?  That's a 25 mega-pixel camera and it isn't suitable for use with PHD2. You might be able to connect to it if you use the ASCOM camera driver but then you are likely to get out-of-memory errors.  You didn't include the debug log file in your message and the guide log is essentially empty so there's not much else I can tell you.  If you want to check polar alignment, just use the CG-3000 camera which you already have working. Sorry, but I strongly suspect you're heading down the wrong road here with whatever experiment you're trying to do.

Regards,

Bruce

[Stéphane Chabert]

Hi

In fact i get inspired by a video on YT, the author was connected an ASI 1600 MM.

I will try again with the CG 3000 but when i use Polar Drift Alignment tool in phd2, the red line is always out of the screen and it doesn't work.

Here is an other link for the log

https://openphdguiding.org/logs/dl/PHD2_logs_mk38.zip

Regards

Stéphane

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[Bruce Waddington]

I think you need to step back and think about what the real problem is: you are probably starting with a HUGE polar alignment error.  The various colored circles in the polar alignment tools are going to work if you're refining the alignment, making small adjustments to something that is already reasonably close.  But they are "nice to have", they aren't critical when the alignment error is very large.  Perhaps you should use the standard drift alignment tool and simply watch the rate at which the guide star moves off-track in declination.  Initially, you won't get any help about how bad it is so just try making the adjustments - azimuth or altitude - until the rate of drift you see on the display gets better instead of worse.  It will be a try-and-error process at first so you need to keep track of how clockwise or counter-clockwise mechanical adjustments affect the direction of the guide star movement.  That's why the "notes" field is in the drift alignment UI.  Once you get the adjustments reasonably close, then the colored circles will probably be visible and will help you fine-tune the adjustments.

Good luck,

Bruce

[stephcha...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your help. I will try next time

 

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