Anyone using multi star autoguiding with Maxim?

[gregbradley]

I see the latest version of Maxim promotes multi star autoguiding as well as differential guiding.

Is anyone using multi star guiding? I know Jase was using it as a plug in a while ago. Perhaps its been incorporated into Maxim now. I did read a Cloudy Nights thread where there were complaints about error messages from previous versions that "stars have faded".

In theory it sounds good. I have noticed with autoguiding that if I am getting bigger than normal expected guide errors the first thing I do is select another guide star and that often reduces the errors a lot.

So multi star guiding may be pushing that phenomena further.

Greg.

[RickS]

I haven't tried it yet, Greg, but I will when I get a chance. I know there was an early issue that prevented multi star guiding from working with ACP but apparently that has been fixed.

Cheers,
Rick.

[gregbradley]

That would be good Rick. It sounds like it potentially could improve things. There was a 2nd plug in for autoguiding that worked with Maxim. I know Jase was using it. I forget now what it was called. I'll see if I can dig it up.

Greg.

[LewisM]

I'd love to but I will stick with V5 for now. V6 still seems a little buggy by all accounts I have read.

I LOVE MaxIM - one of the only programmes I use - their 1 star guiding is absolutely incredible - accidentally forget to stop guiding before a slew and watch your mount have conniptions and grinds as MaxIM tries to oppose it!!!!!! Try it in PHD, and it just goes.

NEVER have had Star Faded in MaxIM, except when a cloud is actually obscuring.

Will watch this with interest - read the whole painful argument on CN the other day about it.