<tt>Hi All,
I was goofing off with CCDAutoPilot2 a few nights ago b4 the 12.5 RC arrives.
CCDAutoPilot2 lets you acquire a series of images automatically whilst you sleep. It automatically handles image framing, focusing, meridian flips, guiding, guide star acquisition, darks and dawn/dusk flats, etc. The down side is you need a highly tuned system to make it work which is a major challenge in itself.
Heres what I acquired during a 2.5 hour test run, It's a bit short on the colour data and the William Optics 80ED is showing signs of collimation problems again. *sigh*
However the signs are very very promising!
http://www.southern-astro.com/imgs/temp/ngc2070.jpg
Cheers,
Brad Moore
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