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Originally Posted by Dave882
Yes I do this regularly with my big rig (c14 riding on an eq8) and utilise the ASIAIR to do the platesolving through a small guide scope. Once the scopes are aligned it is very accurate. I use this for visual sessions as well as imaging if I’m at the native focal length. It’s extremely useful when you’re hunting down faint objects operating with a very small fov on the main scope. Only thing is the ASIAIR doesn’t seem to work for alt-az setups but there are other systems out there that would be good for that.
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Thank you it is good to know the high accuracy. My hope is that it will be more accurate than the standard goto. I prefer altaz for visual. In my test I used Stellarmate running on a RPI4 which supports AZ mode in the SW AZGTi.