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Old 18-04-2010, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by pjphilli View Post
Thanks Guys - I did a bit of experimenting last night and firstly I tried a pretty bright star with the star profile showing a flat top - presumably the core was saturated. This guided reasonably well but a fainter star with a nice pointed star profile guided better. Also some cloud came over and I was surprised that PHD just kept on guiding.
If you wanted to use that bright star, you could reduce the exposure time until you lost the flat top.
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