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Unintended changes to tracking rate when slewing in PHD2 for calibration

Unspecified/unknown company EQMod Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 PRO Equatorial Mount Troubleshooting
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Himanshu Pandey avatar
Himanshu Pandey avatar
I have been experiencing a nuisance issue where the tracking rate of my Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 changes from sidereal to a custom rate, that I have not defined, when I slew for calibration from within PHD2.  I have to manually click on sidereal in the eqmod window before I can start a calibration in PHD2.   I don't see the tracking rate changes from slews I initiate within NINA where the guiding resumes as intended afterwards.

Are you, or have you, experienced this issue?
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Tony Gondola avatar
Tony Gondola avatar
You might try switching to Green Sky Server. It's a more up to date replacement for EQMod.
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Tony Gondola avatar
Tony Gondola avatar
Tony Gondola:
You might try switching to Green Sky Server. It's a more up to date replacement for EQMod.

Sorry, I mean Green Swamp Server!
Himanshu Pandey avatar
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Thanks Tony, I will give it a try.  I assumed it wasn't supported any longer but that was a bad assumption with the last release less than a year ago.
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Jim Raskett avatar
Jim Raskett avatar
I second GSS. Been using it for years and have had no issues with PHD calibration slews or anything else for that matter.
Himanshu Pandey avatar
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Do you guys have any experience with GSS and multiple instances?  I have two mounts and GSS only seems to support one running instance, it only controls whichever mount connected to it last.   I don't see a way to have multiple windows open concurrently.
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