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Old 02-09-2012, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by DavidTrap View Post
Allan,

I run my guide camera from the guide tab - only time I have run it from the exposure tab is to take a run of darks. You then load these darks into the calibrate routine and enable "full calibration" in the guiding tab. I agree the software isn't 100% intuitive, but it's like most software in astronomy - full of unusual terms.

The picture always looks very grainy vs PHD, but the guiding is fine. I'll have to try multi-star guiding and see if that improves things for me.

DT
If you look at the video - It looks like you need to set the camera up
to take exposures to find guide stars & focus - then you go to guiding.

It looks like the Screen Stretch Window fixes the snowy picture.
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