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Now come on Andrew
Both you and I know how to get around all the drawbacks. Yes I have done two star and polar alignments during daylight. But does the average beginner know all the tricks we can use or have. I was only using an old DS2014(?) mount and made up some brackets to hold the PST in the hope that it would drive the scope in some sort of a tracking mode while I took a few photos. However the short cuts were not good enough. The tripod was not stable and I could not see the laptop (that's where I needed to focus the image). I needed to make a better setup and time ran out.
Actually I did not need to write a program. I already had one that just needed to be set up on another computer.
Next time I will be better set up. I will use the HEQ5 It has a solar track rate and I will have it polar aligned before I start. I will have the laptop where I can see it and a better monochrome CCD.
Barry
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