Hello Mickey,
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I was waiting for your response lol!
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Anyway: (not the same email since things have changed since then)
I have not used PHD2 but NINA has a Direct Guider for dithering so it should be able to dither directly with the Meade Generic driver. Nothing i have tried since field rotation has worked as excellent dither for me but i guess that changes when using a field rotator.
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Here is the rough NINA walk through i created in response to your email back then.. i am not a tutorial guy but i at least it's something. Sorry for doing this on my smartphone:
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If you have any specific questions i am happy to answer them.
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In infrastructure mode with a virtual serial port and the correct IP adress + the latest Meade Generic driver it's just a question of choosing the Meade Generic driver in the NINA mount drop down list and everything just works.
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This is how i use NINA:
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1. Mount pointing at 0.00 and 63.00 (i have put marks on the groundboard and altitude bearings), or you could just point at Polaris or NCP.
2. Inside the house i press play on my automated 2-star alignment sequence, after that is done it goes back to 0.00 63.00.
This is how the sequence looks:
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Then i choose the target in NINAS framing wizard, press slew (not slew and center). Then after the mount has stopped moving
i hit solve and sync. Then slew again, it always puts the object in the middle or almost in the middle, so from here instead of jumping back and forth i just do the last fine centering with NINAS scope control (like a virtual handpad).?
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Then i run my Sequence which looks like this:
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It took a while to dial in a bulletproof autofocus routine with the 30" but i have found the right settings, 3 exposures per focus point and using the 15 brightest stars i think was the most important settings.
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The reason i solve and sync every 75 exposures is so that Nexus is updated on exactly where it is pointing for the correct drive rates, not sure if this makes any difference, just an idea i had.
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I don?t use center after drift anymore since it can get stuck jumping back and forth trying to center if the accuracy is set to below 2.5 arc minutes.
Having the the correct gear ratios set goes a loong way so i don?t mind re-centering now and again, one night i did not have to re-center for 2.5 hours.
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Here is my latest image:
Edit: Not latest image, but latest stack of an already uploaded image!
Best Regards
Gabriel
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Gabriel Wiklund