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Originally Posted by JohnG
...I did significant tests using an LPI -v- ST-4 and, obviously the ST-4 came out on top BUT that was before Guidemaster had the LPI long exposure support, the downside of using the LPI is that to get long exposure mode you have to install .Net 2 and DirestX 9.0 and above. The biggest problem I found was that you needed to get a fairly bright guidestar for things to work properly.
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John, did you actually get the LPI long exposure to work? I abandoned it in the end and went for an Orion Starshoot, the LPI seems to only work on very bright stars, long exposure allows you to see fainter stars yes but the noise soon drowns out any advantage - and you need to stack and dark fram to counter that (which the s'ware does not do and would take too long in any case) not really useable IMHO.