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Old 03-09-2014, 01:23 PM
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I have no doubt direct drive mounts can give you an near enough perfect rotational rate.

The simple problem remains: that is different to a star's real position due a myriad of atmospheric effects.

Being an "open loop" system the mount simply can't compensate in the same way as an autoguider (or autoguider+AO ) .... which close the loop.
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