That's a very nice video. NINA does it automatically, including Ephemeris update and custom tracking. I really sugest test that out, the plugin is called Orbital
Super video Martin. Does your mount need to be polar aligned and star aligned already before EQMOD will skew to the comet using the comet tracking txt file?
They would conflict, unless you use the comet guiding feature in PHD. However, I recommend 30-60 second exposures for comets which is short enough that you shouldn’t need to guide.
Hi Martin, Thanks for the video. I followed it and created a custom tracking file for the comet. However EQMOD didn't find the comet..I'm guessing either my time or co-ordinates were off.. I'm in EST/Western hemisphere.. Didn't see anywhere to specify my timezone and I used - to indicate W.. not sure if that was correct?
@@pauldouglas4900 OK. So pick a date and time, say tomorrow evening. Then advance Stellarium to that day and time and write down the RA and Dec of the comet at that time (make sure your location is set correctly of course). Then get the data for EQMOD using the same date and location and compare the RA and Dec. Also make sure you have picked the same comet!!! Hopefully this will reveal something. By the way…Did you star align or add a sync point on EQMOD? You need to.
@@martinsastrophotography The issue is that the time in the table is in UTC.. On closer examination it's labeled as UTC 🙂... Now just have to figure out how to get EQMOD to run on UTC.. Thanks
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Excellent - if it clears I'll give this a try!
That's a very nice video. NINA does it automatically, including Ephemeris update and custom tracking. I really sugest test that out, the plugin is called Orbital
Super video Martin. Does your mount need to be polar aligned and star aligned already before EQMOD will skew to the comet using the comet tracking txt file?
Thanks! Yes, it does.
Thanks for the video Martin. Can I still use PHD guiding with this custom tracking or would that be conflicting each other?
They would conflict, unless you use the comet guiding feature in PHD. However, I recommend 30-60 second exposures for comets which is short enough that you shouldn’t need to guide.
Hi Martin, Thanks for the video. I followed it and created a custom tracking file for the comet. However EQMOD didn't find the comet..I'm guessing either my time or co-ordinates were off.. I'm in EST/Western hemisphere.. Didn't see anywhere to specify my timezone and I used - to indicate W.. not sure if that was correct?
Thanks Paul. Sorry to hear you had trouble with it. Hard to say what was wrong from what you’ve said.
I find the comet using Stellarium, but when I apply the custom tracking the telescope slews away
@@pauldouglas4900 OK. So pick a date and time, say tomorrow evening. Then advance Stellarium to that day and time and write down the RA and Dec of the comet at that time (make sure your location is set correctly of course). Then get the data for EQMOD using the same date and location and compare the RA and Dec. Also make sure you have picked the same comet!!! Hopefully this will reveal something. By the way…Did you star align or add a sync point on EQMOD? You need to.
@@martinsastrophotography That's a great idea.. thanks!... and yes I was star aligned...
@@martinsastrophotography The issue is that the time in the table is in UTC.. On closer examination it's labeled as UTC 🙂... Now just have to figure out how to get EQMOD to run on UTC.. Thanks
I have to ask. How on earth did you find out how to do that
Saw it on RUclips!!! :-)