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Old 21-07-2014, 07:46 AM
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Hi all,

I have purchased an Starlight Xpress AO-LF and I understand that it can be operated via PHD 2.x without a Lodestar/Lodestar2 camera.

Is there anyone here running an SXV-AO in this configuration and if so, which camera are you using in lieu of a Lodestar and what sort of results are you getting?

I realize the choices of alternate guiding camera are limited because of the way the SXV-AO is designed but I have a QHY5L-II here which I am hoping will do the job.

Cheers!
The bottleneck might be your guider frame rate and sensitivity, not the software used. The lodestar will pick a guide star at a reasonable rate so you can guide at 0.2Hz. I had a QHY mono and it didn't. It wasn't a newer model though.
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