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Well I go an evaluation version working* today - as far as goto's - not nudges are concerned. Let me comment how things went.
In "calibrate" mode you simply goto as many reference stars as you wish and after the slew is complete, correct the mount's pointing until its aimis spot on. If the mount is of sufficient quality that goto's are consistent, then pointing errors can be modelled and subtracted out - or corrected for.
So after 16 calibration stars widely placed on my first test run how did it go? Spot on. I mean every single slew was dead centre of my Camera's eyepiece - no matter where in the sky I went. It also informed me I was 2 minutes off by Alititude and 4 minutes by Azimuth from the SCP.
So for a first case test run I found this substantially impressive. Now I am left with trying to understand what is happening when I issue a command from MaxPoint to nudge mount a set distance in a set direction -wierd stuff seems to happen and it then affects the pointing accuracy of my gear.
So for thw Atlux under SkySensor2000-PC - MaxPoint is a dream. More play to do this week to sort out its full potential!
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