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Old 30-07-2017, 09:10 PM
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The auto focus routine in SG Pro is built into the program. It can be a little tricky to get working well as it uses the entire image and then measures Half Flux Radius on all the stars it can see to estimate focus. Occasionally I found it ended up with dodgy focus until I increased the minimum star diameter setting a bit so it only uses bright stars and now it works really well.
SG Pro does use some external programs. It doesn't have guiding built in but interfaces with an external guide program, I am using PHD2 and it works fine with that. It also requires an external plate solver if you want to use that, Plate Solve 2 works fine with me.

Malcolm
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