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Maxim plate solves out of the box just fine so long as it's setup ok.
Maxpoint is to Maxim as TPoint is to The Sky. Software wise it goes between everything and the mount. You do a maxpoint cal run and it drives the scope and camera around taking pics and plate solving them which builds a map of alignment errors and then corrects those errors when finished, like tpoint does. I don't need it here but I guess if you had a very long FL setup, like 3meters, or a really crap mount, then maybe.
Also, don't rely on the QHY9 shutter to take dark/bias shots. I've found IR can come through a plastic nose cap and through the plastic shutter on the QHY9. If you do darks on the bench put alfoil over the nose / under the cap or on a scope, put the cap on the scope for higher quality cal files.
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