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Matt,
CCD stack does not do camera control as far as I know. CCD Soft is the camera control software you normally get with an sbig camera, or at least I did. I thought you where after stacking and processing software.
I use maxim to capture and the sky to control the scope and dome. I am doing what you want to do with maxim. I connect TheSky to POTH which then starts the mount and the dome. I slew to target using TheSky, but I guess any astro thing will do. While it is slewing I start maxim, connect the imaging camera and the guide camera and turn on the coolers. I then connect maxim to POTH.
Next I do darks for the guide camera and take a shot of the target, 5 seconds binned x 2. I then pinpoint that image. Once it is resolved I sync the telescope in maxim to the resolved position which passes the new co-ordinates to thesky via the mount. I then get thesky to re-slew to target. I am now on target. I now get a guide star and start guiding.
Tomorrow night I can do the exact same thing and be in the exact same spot. If I opt to move the scope a bit to get a better framing of the target, I can open that saved image on another night, pinpoint resolve that image, and slew to that location and repeat capture.
This does not require the bought version of pinpoint, the version that comes with maxim works fine although I've found the fewer stars in the captured image, the quicker it resolves a location. You do need the GSC corrected, which you can get from the pinpoint web site for free.
robin
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