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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Hi Marcus,
... Everything is easier at 1 metre focal length. At 3 metres round stars are a bit harder to achieve even with the PME.
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Fair nuff.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
... I installed an autodither plugin in CCDsoft and that affected the autoguider and took me ages to find out why things were going pear shaped with guiding.
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That plugin has never worked for me but I haven't tried it in a long time.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
...You must have wireless internet in your observatory? I don't have an internet connection in my observatory. I have a wireless modem but it didn't extend that far. Time off the iphone I imagine would be accurate to the nearest second. Updating it every time may be a good idea. I'll have to check to see if the computer's clock goes off over time. My time was off by about a minute when I updated it off the phone. It seemed to make a noticeable difference.
Greg.
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Hmmm, yes, a few SECONDs can make a noticeable difference! I've just recently replaced my wireless connection with an ethernet cable. Wireless is a PITA - frequent dropouts at a mere 20m! Get yourself a GPS unit that has a serial port and outputs NMEA messages. NMEATime will happily decode these - no need for the internet.