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Old 14-08-2014, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by rogerg View Post
AO is all very well and good if there's a bright guide star, but so often my ST8-XME simply doesn't have a 500ADU+ guide star in the guider chip for anything less than a 15 second exposure. As a result I struggle to see how I'd get value for money out of AO, as much as I'd love to have it
Obviously you would not be able to benefit from AO with your current equipment. That's like saying that you use a guidescope and want to know the benefits of using it. There aren't any. If your camera guided in front of the filters, with a more sensitive chip then it would be a different story.
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