John are you in Tampa or the pandhandle? I am looking for local help when the
mosquitoes go away.

--- In UncensoredTakGroup@yahoogroups.com, John O'Neill <John@...> wrote:
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> Don:
> I had a EM-200 and had guiding issues until I found that I was not
> adjusting the time to standard (in the instructions, but missed that
> part) during my polar alignment. Maybe this could be your problem.
> Once I got the offset and time right, the mount worked flawlessly.
>
> Tak doesn't put in PEC training because the error is so low it
> doesn't need it, besides good tracking software is in affect acting
> as a PEC corrector. IMHO the EM-200 is one the finest medium sized
> mounts in the world, that is why I now own an EM-400. At +/- 3 arc
> sec error who needs PEC.
> John O'Neill
> Seminole, FL
>
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Don wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been imaging using my EM200 mount and have to manually guide.
> > I did the drift method and DEC drift had ceased but the RA needs to
> > be corrected. There is no PEC for this mount which is unfortunate.
> > My friend commented that I paid a lot of money for the mount and
> > there is no PEC? I told him that hopefully Takahashi hopefully will
> > at some point incorporate it into the future mounts. Not sure if
> > there are any plans or if the newer mounts have PEC now? If you can
> > train out the errors you can take images for sveral minutes without
> > making corrections.Anyway is there anything out there such as third
> > party software?
> >
> > Thanks Don
> >
> >
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