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Originally Posted by LewisM
What is considered the preferred way to guide a system using the internal guide chip of the CCD? My SBIG ST-8XE has the internal guide chip, and I would prefer to use it than using a guidescope or even an OAG.
PHD sees the dual chips system and asks me if I want to use the guider chip, as does MaximDL.
Appreciate the help - I did not use the internal guide chip previously with this camera.
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I've never used PHD for guiding with the internal guide chip. I use CCDSoft that should have come with the camera. It seems to have a better guiding algorithm than PHD and you can fiddle with the parameters easier than relying on the auto calibration of PHD.
Some colour filters make it harder to find a guide star but for clear or green and blue I've never had any problems.