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Old 26-02-2017, 12:59 AM
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Atmos (Colin)
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Originally Posted by DJT View Post
I don't bin for focussing. focus max suggest binning for coarse focus but 1*1 for the final touch. If you are trying to setup so you can sleep whilst you are imaging then what are you trying to save time for?
SGP is the only focusing software I've ever considered binning on, FocusMax does a great job but I cannot use it while using SGP.

At the moment in SGP I am doing a 13 point focus, doing it unbinned each 1s exposure takes a good 10s for SGP to calculate the HFD of the hundreds (sometimes a few thousand in the case of ETA Carina) of stars in the image. 3x3 binned it takes 2s.
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