AstroPhotography Orion Nebula/M42, My Guiding settings in AsiAir with SkyWatcher GTi Mount 

I hope you have recovered already 💪

@@kubaduch1 Yes i did , thank you.

Thank you very much!

Thank you, and yes it's such an amazing filing when you see the picture you took on your own, you see it in a completely different light, I'm very happy for you Andrew, take care and clear skies.

I'm very happy to hear that Perry, Clear skies.

Thanks for the questions Jos, ok so your first question, all the things you see in the video are done with the thought that someone new (who doesn't know the equipment) is watching the video, so in the case, they decide to buy any of the gear I'm using, they already get at least a hint of all the necessary steps on setting everything up. 2) I ended up with this setting after testing, I noticed that the GTi (at least in my case) doesn't have a constant performance, so despite I may have a really good polar alignment and the mount tracks with a 1-1,5' total error one night, the next, might be quite different in both directions so the guiding would be worse or better despite also having a good polar alignment etc, So these numbers give me the best guiding, in general, that's why I stick to them. I would also like to mention one more thing that's not really related to guiding but it ties in a bit in your tired question, I think I'm pushing the mount a bit over the edge, meaning that the max payload capacity is 5kg/11lsb and my current setup weights 6,2kg/13.5lbs (with the counterweight) so that's why my setting are a bit on the aggressive side and I think there are no fixed settings that you could apply that would guarantee you good guiding with this mount since it depended a lot on what you putt on it. I switched to an off-axis guider to save some weight and my correction pulses were even more aggressive before . I'll give a bit shorter answer to your last question since it's starting to look like an essay (and I'll expand on this in one of the future videos), I watched that presentation too and I think it was great, a lot of valuable information, but for me, I rather take my chances wit longer exposures because it gives me better results (besides the failed exposures), I even played around with lucky imaging a few times with my exposures being 0.5-1,5sec max and took about 600-800 images, the image was noticeable sharp but there was extensible less information/data in the combined image, 1 120sec exposure had much more data than 200 1sec exposures, so to summer up, I rather stick to longer exposures because I do get better results but I do sacrifice a bit of the sharpness. I hope this answers some of your questions but feel free to ask any additional questions. Clear skies to you too Jos.

@@TadejSkofic thanks for answering all the questions, very helpfull to learn from your experience for a fellow AZ-GTI user new to guiding (also with a bit too heavy setup). Greetings from NL

Yes, exactly I do everything on the Asi Air 😉

Thank you, yes you are right, I'm using a 0.5 reducer.

It works quite well actually, I'm using it for over 2 years now.

It only may require a firmware update.