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Old 12-12-2020, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by DavidTrap View Post
My experiences with AP are very similar to Dave.

I have a Mach 1 personally and run a school observatory with two 1100s. The latter have encoders - very useful for remote, autonomous operation. We run the rigs unguided, one with a 14inch planewave imaging at over 2500mm focal length. Stars aren’t perfectly round, but not too far from it - it’s a balance between reliability of guiding in an autonomous setup vs yield for students.

AP have been excellent for after sales service.

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I have heard that using an OAG is very difficult with a robotic mount
and that adaptive optics at say 10hz is nearly impossible
or too costly for a robotic mount?
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