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Old 22-05-2007, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by rogerg View Post
That may be true, but you'd always do more than one PEC run, and errors introduced due to viewing conditions will very easily average out after a few PEC iterations.

I typically do about 5 iterations for my LX200, that gets PE down to extremely low levels of movement, barely a few arc seconds judging by how far the star moves visually in the CCD image.


Roger.
Ah that makes sense! Thnaks Roger. Should have thought of that - the Vixen manual is insrutable on the how to's of PEC.

My idea with the artificial star was - it does not move - your mount does - so if the tracking was perfect the "star" trail recorded would be a perfect arc of a circle. A bit of maths and you could derive the PEC curve I think...perhaps not with enough precision, I have not looked at the numbers?
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