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I have one of the clone 909APM's from Gene in the States - Google is your friend. It was about $100 landed here.
The autoguider mechanism seems to work with my Orion StarShoot autoguider. You need to fiddle with patches for your Autostar, but Andrew in Melbourne specifically rewrote the patch for me to fix some problems. PM if you want more details.
I haven't tried using ASCOM for Autoguiding - I wanted to use the ST4 autoguiding port as this apparently make direct instructions to the guiding motors, rather than sending a signal to the Autostar for it to relay to the motors. I'm all for cutting out the middleman. I probably haven't explained this well, but it made sense when I read about it on the net.
I haven't tried out the focus or reticle sockets - don't have anything to plug into these, but they do come up as options on the Autostar once I plug the 909 clone in to the Aux socket.
Regard
David T
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