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Originally Posted by g__day
Must say PHD 1.12.4 is pretty good software - used correctly. I still think you need to understand correcting seeing errors versus real tracking errors and wished PHD assessed backlash in a more sophisticated way.
Craig has put the controls for the main parameters for PHD onto the graph - so you can change settings on the fly and see immediately if this improves tracking or not. I still wish there was some fuzzy logic to do a bit of a Monte Carlo diagnostic on these key parameters (altering each on in turn by a set delta to see if tracking gets better or worse), Sure it would take a while - but on a bad seeing night - leave it running for a few hours then you'd have detailed information on both optimal settings and how much better the best settings are from other settings.
Lastly I wish Craig would finally add multi-star guiding (like the add on for MaximDL that achieves multi star guiding). I found an article on this I sent Craig; it determined once you guide on the averaged movements of 5+ stars - seeing errors decrease by about 50% - a worthwhile gain in my eyes!
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Matthew I've never had any luck getting that multi star plugin for Maxim to co-operate. Do you use it regularly?