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Old 21-10-2014, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by SkyViking View Post
Hi Paul, although our mounts are different I'll second shorter guide exposures. I use 0.6s most of the time and only go up to 1s on the odd occasion where no guide star is bright enough. And they don't have to be very bright at all in my experience.

Cheers,
Rolf
The different f ratios impact on guide star selection Rolf. f8 has a big impact on how bright stars are even at 2x2 binning. I take it you are using f4 at 2x2?
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