Guiding with Mesu-Mount 200 (Paul Muskee)

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Guiding with Mesu-Mount 200

First test with guiding on the Mesu-Mount 200. Had some troubles getting it to work correctly, but for some reason I still don't understand is that I have to create a new profile when it doesn't work.

Only doing a new calibration doesn't work.

Happens to me on the Advanced VX as well, maybe I don't understand something.

Anyways, the guiding seems fine. PHD is actually doing nothing and that must be good :-).

I made quite some exposures now with the Mesu-Mount 200 and not a single exposure was bad, even if there was quite some wind.

Looking really good and promising.

Soon I am ready to put everything together and make some nice pictures hopefully. Only problem I have left is the distance to my chip from the Riccardi reducer (backfocus).

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Description: Much better guiding last night.
However, I found that my pixel scale might not be correct for guiding.
I use Lodestar X2 with big pixels and a small guidescope 50/200.
As a result my guiding pixel scale is 8.66"/pixel, while my image scale is around 1"/pixel.
Guiding seems fine though, but I need to do some more investigation regarding this. Might need to add a barlow or something.

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