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Old 26-10-2016, 10:38 AM
Dennis
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Originally Posted by kkara4 View Post
haha - well i just packed up, and indeed i had to focus the polemaster. it was off by quite a bit - but very easy to adjust

during precise alignment i had a major issue. as i got towards overlapping the green and red, polemaster lost lock on one of the two stars suddenly and jumped around wildly.

i think care must be taken with the initial gain/exposure settings in this regard, and also to ensure focus is as reasonable as possible. i will need to do more experiments to determine if the exposure/gain settings were to blame for this behaviour.

once adjusted i did a second round and it went just fine, so i think the settings were the source of the problem.
That’s interesting behaviour and not something I have seen before. I think I’m on Software Version V1.3.2Beta1.

What software version were you using when the anomaly occurred?

Cheers

Dennis
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