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Oh man don't you love gear that doesn't work right out of the box!
Thanks very much for this excellent review. You had me laughing there several times!
I have an SX AO unit on my wish list but was a bit sceptical of SX's ability to produce a high quality product.
By the way I use a Lodestar also and with CCDsoft. CCDsoft will also chose a hot pixel over a star but not a bright star. I use autodark and it kind of works but because the Lodestar does not have a shutter, the autodark also mostly removes the guide stars as well! It still manages to locate the remnants of the guide star and work though. If the star is bright enough its not an issue. I tried library darks and whilst these work just taking an image with the Lodestar as soon as you click on autoguide it won't use them. Perhaps glitch in the CCDsoft code.
I agree SX website could do with an improvement but its really no worse than most European websites.
So if I got one I can expect a few issues but as long as they are surmountable then its probably still worth it.
Gee, where's the FLI AO and OAG unit eh? There's a real need for a high quality unit still.
Greg.
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