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Originally Posted by DaveNZ
I have never had consistent results with SGP focusing. Focusing seems to almost reliable when the seeing is good and stable however outside this, not so good. (300mm f4 newt)
I do see there is a recent ""Feature Request" at SGP for an improved focusing process/routine.
Reply from Jared:
"Yes, I’ve actually been contemplating this a lot recently because of “some other tread on some other site…”. I’m not entirely sure what directly this is going to take. But initial thoughts are to improve the existing auto focus as well as provide some external mechanism for other parties to integrate with SGP. The latter piece may or may not happen. But minimally we probably need to provide a single star option as well as some improvements to the multi star option that currently exists."
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That's great that this is happening - that would solve a lot of issues.
Attached is what I see is typically what can happen. SGP will not use the smaller stars to focus on which is what I want - and it will just average the results across the screen - but if you could select a small stat field or star(s) that visually are smaller, then you are closer to focus. In this case I simply used the star with the 3.16 HFR to manually focus on and bingo all was good!