ASIAIR Pro RA Guiding Issues

Thanks for the feedback, I'll adjust the gain next time! I had the RA aggression high and low, that's just what it was when I got the image. It certainly shouldn't be 200%.

It looks like it's behaving with a flipped calibration setting. Also, I noticed just from the image too that your saturation is high. Try turning the gain down too. (that's not the drift problem). How's your calibration?  And of course turn the aggression back down to 50% to start.

It looks like the asiair doesn't/hasn't saved any calibration data? Next session I'll look for that. I'll try hitting the flip calibration button and see where that gets me though. Thanks for the input.

It will save it either on the microSD, or on the USB stick you user under ASIAIR -> log

A good practice is to do a separate calibration for every target before you start Autorun.  Seeing and transparency are rarely the same from night to night or even sometimes during a single session.  The Multi-star guiding works perfectly every time and is meant to be foolproof and is, if your basic settings are in the very forgiving ZWO ballpark.  A guide camera gain of 300 is not in the ballpark nor is an RA aggression setting of 100.
    1- set your guide camera gain to 50% of max gain and exposure to 2 seconds then "clear" calibration data
    2-calibrate guiding before starting Autorun
    3-start guiding mode in auto DEC with corrections switched on
    4-set both RA and DEC aggression to 50
    5-let guiding settle for a complete screen pass. it should be very good as it is but if RA is continually correcting and has a value over 70 or higher raise the RA aggression by 5 or 10.  If your seeing is average or better this is often enough.  If you are raising you RA agg, above 85 or so your seeing is shit or you have a setting that is nor in the ballpark.
    6- see the very good reference from Michael to fine tune your guiding
    7 once your guiding is settled change your guide camera exposure time to 3 or 4 seconds
All of the good advise given by fine Astrobin people in this thread is readily available from multiple sources on the internet and the ZWO asiAir Pro users manual.

Hi all,

Just wanted to close the loop on this issue I was having. I appreciate the feedback from everyone on tips/tricks/best practices. Ultimately, what fixed my issue was updating my ZWO ASIAIR Pro firmware... I was connecting to my EQ6R through the hand controller. I installed the new OS from ZWO that allowed me to connect directly to the USB port on the mount, and then guiding worked! Everyone loves graphs so if you feel inclined, I'll attach the log... Other than that, thank you! PHD2_GuideLog_2021-09-10_204759.txt

I currently have v 1.8.83  on my Ipad although I have not used it due to weather, it is downloadable now.  Since you have edited your post, I'd like to add I have never had a guiding issue of any kind with with any version of asiAIR Pro.  Just lucky I guess.

scott