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Originally Posted by jase

Are you calibrating the guider before kicking off the exposures Steve? The software needs to know the X and Y access in relation to the guide star/mount combo. I've used CCDOps once and found it was doing my head in. Try CCDSoft or MaximDL if you're still having problems. For some reason I recall you posting a thread before regarding guiding issues, something to do with the guider cable or guider port in the mount was to blame. Can't recall. Have these been resolved?

Thanks for the gen on flats Jase, I'll copy it and read it fully at a later time.

I got a new cable for guiding and as far as I can tell it works i.e. it moves the mount etc.

I like the look of CCDSoft which I got with the camera but it won't work on the notebook I use for imaging as it is not compatible with Vista. It runs on my old tower running Win98SE but I use that in the house for internet and so on. I do have access to another desktop running XP that may be compatible and when I finally convert my shed into a permanent setup I may use that for imaging instead.

I do run the callibrate function befoe imaging, it quite often tells me that there was an invalid movement in the X axis or something like that. Don't know what that means so I continue imaging with track and accumulate to at least get some images that are acceptable.