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Originally Posted by glend
Thanks Dunk, yes I have that in mind at some point. I have been reading through the BYEOS info on setting up Astro Torilla but I would need to upgrade to the premium edition of BYEOS. That's probably the ulimate destination. However, my expereince with the Astro Torilla plate solver on Astrobin shows that for long focal length images it can fail to solve - simply the field is too narrow for it to find a solution (this is only a problem with my RC08 due to the small field of view, and particular target objects without good reference stars/objects in the field.)
For now I have got the video finderscope working last night and following the KISS principle, ran it through PHD2 to get a target rectile on screen.
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Glen, you don't need the BYE integration for Astro Tortilla to work, you can use many of these tools independently without paying extra. As I've mentioned before, I use APT and happen to use the built-in plate solving in that, but it also supports AT. APT is fully featured and more reasonably priced, and of course there is a free trial available.
I don't use a finder any more..I just stick the camera on the scope and use plate solving to nail my target. Saves a lot of time and effort, and no bending the neck into awkward positions
