Thanks for the interesting post, Luke.
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Originally Posted by Luke Bellani
Apparently MaxImDL is not a multi-threaded program and so stops guiding during download of the main camera images.
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According to posts by Doug George on the Maxim group this is intended behaviour. The USB traffic required to continue guiding has been known to cause artifacts in images downloaded from the main imaging camera. Personally, I'd prefer this to be an option that can be turned on if needed.
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Originally Posted by Luke Bellani
Now my experience so far is that you can have a blazing star like Sirius in the middle of the image frame, but MaxIm will still try to select a hot pixel as the guide star.
Guide star selection is automated and the user cannot manually select the guide star.
A really dumb program feature in my opinion.
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Yep, the automated guide star selection in Maxim sucks
As Peter pointed out you can override this, but my experience was that while it works for guiding with the AO, it doesn't work when calibrating it. Maxim would let me select a guide star but as soon as I pushed the button to calibrate it would go and select a new one.
I made an attempt to compare OAG and AO guiding here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=85338
I was hoping to perform some more tests, but between a long holiday and rubbish weather I haven't had a chance...
Cheers,
Rick.