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Originally Posted by kimrichards
Paul,
Can you expand on the point about the brightness of the star used for PEC with SkyX? I still have been unable to get this to work. Everything appears to work correctly but the residual PE is not repeatable nor better than the original. Camera angle is almost perfect and "pointing west" correctly set, if it is not correct the PE is definitely worse.
Thanks
Kim
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Hi Kim, through trial and error I have found that the camera add on in the SkyX does not autoguide well or should I say watch a star well if the star is not bright enough. This results in flat zig zag supposed PE readings. The beighter the star the better the response. One sure way to tell if the star is bright enough is that the guide box will be centred on the star. If it is offset in any way, then the star is not being watched by the software.
Just for information, i am using an STXL with 11002 sensor with a guide box of 200x200.