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Originally Posted by lazjen
Nice accuracy.
I'm curious, and so need to ask a possibly dumb question: how important is it to having pointing accuracy like this, or even say less than around 1 arc min?
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Actually, that's a really good question!
For most, an arc minute or ten would be sufficient: as long as it lands on the sensor/eyepiece you are happy.
But for those wanting to get, not just a guide star, but bright one at that, in a comparatively miniscule guider field, the SkyX performs magic.
You can slew to an object, *know* it is centred.
Direct or even automate a guide star capture and create a AO-guider/Megadata/awesome-mosaic .
But that's not all
Pro-track also accounts for pointing errors and corrects the tracking rate with error vectors previously measured for the part of the sky you are imaging in.
Now, if the Bisque clan could just clean up hardware interrupts and unexpected crashes when using a: camera/mount/dome/AO/guider/filter-wheel/focuser.....
..OK..all at the same time..
Well...Nirvana springs to mind