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Old 08-02-2014, 01:44 PM
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Adaptive optics.

I had a look at the latest SBIG Adaptive optics page here:

https://www.sbig.com/products/adaptive-optics/ao-x/

Just look at the results as a live version:


1 Hz tip/tilt............................... .. 10 Hz tip tilt

https://www.sbig.com/site/assets/fil...ao_mov_1hz.gif https://www.sbig.com/site/assets/fil...o_mov_10hz.gif

The results of GIF images show up in my preview but not when I post.


Those results make me green with envy -
it makes me realise that I've been guiding on moving rubbish.
I would buy an SBIG or some other AO system tomorrow but I don't see how
I could ever get it working at 10Hz.

I have a Lodestar guide camera with a TS9 OAG & although there
are sometimes more than 10 guide stars to choose from
there are sometimes only one or two & I need to use minimum 1 second capture to guide on them.
I often have to use 2 second captures as there are no suitable guide stars otherwise.
I could never get 10Hz working unless I was super lucky with a bright enough guide star.

Is there any solution to this problem?
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