I was quite happy to have NexGuide autoguider on last Friday but quite disappointed the weather was so bad on Friday night.
Saturday night waiting until mid night around 12 oclock for first time testing it.
Very afraid the weather like yesterday , let me thought someone using Doraemon's tool to made so much cloud in the sky.
Not very accurate to do polarize and used 1 star alignment on HEQ5. Although, I read the manual in advance at least three times but touch the real NexGuide is another story. Got some trouble on the first hour to operating it.
Look at the hand control...it's cute..
You need select and lock star before select guiding. Due to my guidescope is not parallel with main telescope, I spent coule mins to adjust it and finding the
brightness star for auto cal.
I believe my DSI pro II is more sensitive then this one. I spent much time to finding star...May be I need to fine tune some parameter to improve it.
No other experience to compare with other standalone guider, so I can only share with the experience when I using PHD guding. It is more faster then PHD guding. In the period of testing, some of auto cal only spent around 1 mins. I did auto cal many times yesterday. Longest time around 3 mins on auto cal.
The most important point is ...find a brightness star....
When found the guide star, you can move it to center of display or just leave it on
original position. NexGuide can calculating the X and Y Axis and show on display panel text area which is on leftside.
You can also see the delta R, delta D real time.
First couple photos were failed due to my legs touched tripod or touched scope. Only choise these three for your reference.
These three photos were tooking by EOS 350D. 1 and 2 was 300seconds, 3rd was 200 seconds.
I will share more in future for longer exposure time and share it next time.
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