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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
I probably should upgrade to plate solving err..and automated focus  ... |
Do you also get your drinking water from the well on your way back from the out house Mike?
Dave, depends on how often you have to recenter (to account for drift or going off target for focusing for example), what your threshold of pain is for wasting time (instead of imaging) and how accurately you want/need to recenter. Plate solving is required of course but to make your life easier you need to close the loop and have software automatically sense the adjustment to make after the plate solve and then move the mount. I use TheSkyX / CCDAP but I understand Astro Tortilla will close the loop with pointing info from the mount. I think TheSkyX also does closed loop slews now on it's own(?)
When I'm focusing (usually off target), getting back to the target within 3 arc seconds takes 2 iterations and a little over a minute with most of that time being spent downloading 2 plate solve images from my camera. I don't have to lift a finger
