Sara Wager Astrophotography
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Guide settings for the Avalon Linear Fast Reverse

People have asked me on many occasions what settings to use for the guiding the Linear Fast reverse mount.

I currently use PHD2 for guiding, but have used Maxim DL extensively as well. Avalon supply the Maxim settings as required for Maxim. It is worth looking at these as due to the belt drive used in the Avalon the min movement in RA and DEC should be set to 0 and this is something that many people I have spoken with find very odd.

Maxim settings for the Linear (supplied by Avalon)

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Settings using EQMOD and PHD2

These are the current settings that I use in PHD2 and EQMOD. They work well and give me an imaging resolution more than adequate for my imaging rig. 

As an indication and for your information I use an OAG in this instance and I am guiding a scope of 330mm. If you have a longer focal length scope then your settings will need to change.
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PHD Log view

Here's a PHD Lof view of the 5h 10m guiding session (with the dithers removed) as viewed in PHDLogView. You can see the over all error in 5 hours, definitely sub pixel!
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These settings are based on Avalon recommendations, specific for the belt drive of their products. It has a high aggression and low hysteresis - This will probably not be the settings that would suit a non belt driven mount.
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  • Recent images
  • Images Gallery
    • Interesting images
  • About me
    • Star People article
  • My Blog
  • Latest Dual rig adventure
  • Astro Pixel Processor tutorials
  • Asteroids and me.....
    • How to find asteroids
    • How to create an asteroid time lapse
  • My observatory
    • The observatory rebuild
    • Equipment
    • Light pollution and astro darkness
  • My guide to image capture
    • Real world comparison - Kodak / Sony chip
    • Dual imaging set up
    • Creating an inset in Photoshop
    • Artistic one channel processing
    • Rubbish in, Rubbish out - you decide
    • Image process tutorials
    • Start / finish - Processing is THE key
    • Building a mosaic >
      • SGPro - Creating a mosaic in software
    • The difference in RGB and Ha light
    • The benefits of extra subs in graphics
    • Narrowband information
    • To bin or not to bin...
  • Equipment reviews
    • PrimaLuceLab Eagle S
    • All things ODK 10
    • PrimaLuceLab PLUS mounting system
    • Avalon linear guide settings
    • Starting out with the Avalon StarGO - Fitting and connecting to a PC
    • Avalon StarGO - Setting a custom park
    • Mallincam All Sky
    • Aviosys IP Power 9258 4 port
    • Avalon M-Tre mount
  • My published images
  • Links
    • Other Astrophotographers
  • Useful books
  • Write in my Guestbook
    • Contact me