ASIAir to NINA and PHD2 (First Time) - AM5 Mount - Guiding Issues

[Deep D]

Hello All,

I need some help to fix my guiding issues. Recently I moved from ASIAir to mini PC based NINA and PHD2.

My Setups are as below

Earlier

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ZWO AM5

ZWO 2600MC Pro

ZWO 290MM

ZWO Mini Scope

ZWO ASIAir

TC40 Carbon Fiber Tripod

WO RedCat 51

Latest

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ZWO AM5

ZWO 2600MC Pro

ZWO 290MM

ZWO Mini Scope

ZWO Filter Wheel (7 * 2')

Mini PC (NINA, PHD2)

iOptron Tri-Pier Portable Tripod

ZWO PE200

WO RedCat 51

ASKAR LDP400 Losmandy-style Universal Dovetail Plate (Removed Redcat5's default plate)

Wanderer Powerbox Ultimate V2

Last week I've completed rig setup with the new accessories and started testing it. I'm facing challenges with the guiding and tracking performance, when i never faced with the old setup.

While creating the PHD2 profile, I kept Gobal, Camera, Guiding and Algorithm parameters values based on few of online videos, unfortunately that didn't work well. So, I made setting exactly same as in my old ASIAir and next was slightly better than the previous one but still not the best.

I've uploaded my logs to the below link. With my limited knowledge I can only see that RA drifting much during the session. I also ran the guiding assistance and attached the screenshot for the same.

https://openphdguiding.org/logs/dl/PHD2_logs_ANRU.zip

Any help would be really helpful.

Let me know if any other details are needed.

Thanks in Advance

[Bruce Waddington]

There’s really not enough information here to see what’s going on.  For sure, you can’t afford to bin the guide camera 2x2 because that results in a guider image scale of nearly 10 arc-sec/px.  It would be best to start with a clean slate and get a measurement baseline that will tell us how the mount is behaving.  This is the procedure to do that:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zrf0au7jaisvt85/How%20to%20create%20a%20baseline%20for%20guiding%20results%20using%20OpenPHD2.pdf?dl=0

 

Don’t fiddle around with any of the guiding parameters, just use the default values.  Do pay attention to the Guiding Assistant recommendations and set the min-move parameters accordingly.  When you are doing the Guiding Assistant part of the procedure, let it run for at least 15 minutes so we can see how the gear behaves when there is no guiding being done.  You should probably also review the Best Practices document for using PHD2:

 

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-best-practices/

 

Regards,

Bruce

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[Deep D]

Thanks Bruce.

Just one question, will the steps (dropbox pdf) work for harmonic mount like AM5?