Interesting info greg
By all accounts you read its supposed to be the bees knees of the autoguider world. My understanding was they are supposed to come with class 1 chips in them. Sounds like qualitity control is very poor.
The Atik 16IC gets a decent write up in Graig Starks guider review. I think it was 2nd place behind the lodestar.
His review did not however include the Sbig STi so be interesting to see how that compares. I think you should buy one then tell us all what you think
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
I have a Lodestar. Crappy little thing it is. It has defects in the image.
This is the 2nd one and its worse than the original. A white horizontal line and a bright vertical left edge confuse the guiding software.
I have programmed in a dark subtract but that makes the image go whitish in CCDsoft.
Terry Platt's response is to use darks.
I think I'll ask for a refund and get an SBIG STi.
Greg.
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