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I am thinking that I might just have to suck it up and hit the learning curve. The "Killer" app within the app is in plan auto focus. I had that working pretty well after about an hours work the first night I used it, it is proving to be more or less essential for the SCT. It not only shifts with temp but a meridian flip moves it too, and the mirror only has to shift a couple of microns to blow focus out visibly. I did work out pretty quickly that if I made a change it was best to tweak it in the equipment profile then re apply that profile to the sequence.
I have not had enough time with it yet, can you readily load an image, plate solve it and then command a slew to the solved center? I had plate solving working both with plate solve 2 and with the local astrometry.net setup but the local astrometry.net one fell over about when I got focus working pretty nicely and it was about to cloud over so I just parked the mount and brought it in for the night.
I still reckon for my young bloke it will be vastly too complicated and I will leave him using APT, but he would be using the ED72 which is a lot more forgiving of focus so automation is not so essential.
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