When it got dark, I first tried to redo the Polar Alignment. That would show my photo again - but leave the horizon restrictions for "Automated Calibration". This should help with the Automated Calibration!!!īut I would like to see my photo again! So, I had to go back to "Horizon & Atmosphere Options" and select "Photograph" again. This is the small part of the sky that I'm left with :-( Only then would the horizon be used as a restriction in Automated Calibration. Then click "Create From Current Horizon Photo". Now comes the confusing part: just setting the horizon image isn't enough!!! I had to select "Custom Drawn" from the "Horizon Type" drop down. I copied this picture into the Horizons subdirectory in the TSX path and then I could select it in TSX: But when I then just tracked and recorded the alignment error in PHD2, I got a 17.82 arcmin(!!) error: I did several iterations and got the PA errors down to The guide scope has a MUCH wider FOV (especially if I use the ML圆94 camera) and if the star isn't in the main scope, chances are it's in the guide scope.Īfter last night's experience (good tracking, not good pointing) I wanted to focus on polar alignment. Yei!!!īecause I have to do a lot of star centering, I finally aligned my guide and main scope. After I found it and set it it to 5.0 I didn't get one single instance of the "index is out of range" error. It's NOT in the ImageLink settings or in the TPoint settings, it's in the general Tools -> Preferences. It took me a looooooooooooooong time to find it. By default it's 0.5 degrees, but for portable mounts like the MyT it needs to be higher. Richard told me that it is the "Bad pointing sample criterion (degrees)" setting under "Advanced Settings". I asked Tim and Richard (Wright - one of the Bisque developers). Error = 733." After fuzzing around (restarting, different order of calibration points.) it usually goes away. ![]() One remaining issue with Image Linking was that I often get an error message "The index is out of range. Strange!!! Somehow TSX lost my super model. After I pressed "Super Model." and (re?)built the super model, I could do a "recal portable" run without any problems. I checked, and all the 200+ calibration points from the super model were still there. Tim told me that it should work and that I might have deleted my super model by accident. Next, I tried the "recal portable" again and got the same error messages. That's also good prep for the star party (want to use the laptop there - and not the ![]() ![]() My guess is that the NUC has USB connection issues. In other news: the mount still disconnected once. So, I switched back to the Atik camera.īut when I tried to record tracking accuracy, clouds rolled in :-( But it's apparently hosed (couldn't get it reliably to work). ![]() I wanted to try the Lodestar guider to see if that makes a difference. I made sure to tighten all screws, tightened the cabling, And then did a good polar alignment (<1 arcsec error). I wanted to work more on my polar alignment issues from last night. And apparenly, TSX stores a lot of state on shutdown!!! (Richard later confirmed that!) But after most nights, I just unplugged the NUC and didn't shutdown TSX and/or Windows. When I started TSX, I tried using "recal portable" again - and this time it worked!!! And then it dawned on me: today, I had to install some Windows updates and restarted my computer. I have the 12V->48V converter, connected it to Anderson poles and will try to run my mount off a 12V battery tonight
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