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Old 03-03-2015, 11:54 PM
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Finally got a clear night to play with AT again.

First I did a polar align using the software and found it quite simple and painless. It took me about 15 mins, but it was my first attempt. I settled on a 7 min error, but could have got it a lot closer if I spent more time.

Then did several solvings and centerings. The program solved, but would not center when EQascom was set on "Append on sync", so switched to "Dialog based" and it worked perfectly, the only issue was EQascom did not record syncs, but I can live with that. Even slewing from one side of the sky (SE) to the other (NW) AT solved and centred every time. Only needed one iteration to centre the target each time. Solving was taking about 30 secs

For astrophotography I think this is a great tool.

P.S: Hi Rob, how are you, hope you got through the cyclone OK.

Clear skies

Rod
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