[JohnH]

I have just attempted my first autoguiding session. Can someone confirm what I believe to be true - autostarsuite (with the standard firmware in the autostar anyway) will only apply corrections to RA. No DEC corrections are applied. I believe this because the guide star kept drifting south in my sessions and no correction was applied. When I realised what was going on I switched to GuideDog and was able to get better tracking with DEC corrections on though I did lose lock after 30 mins or so. Obviously my polar alignment was not good. However I did manage to get some 5 min shots with much, much less trailing than I would have had before so it is a promisisng start. I have still not found a reliable method of getting a good polar alignment grrr.