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Old 13-02-2006, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
One thing about the ToUcam though. I find that on nights of poor to average seeing the autoguider wants to chase the seeing all over the place. The problem I'm finding is even when I set the exposure to its lowest setting, the frame rate to the lowest setting and set the interval time to 1.5 sec or more (this is using K3) I still get chasing. I'm hoping that with the LPI and DSI I will be able to genuine longer exposures to help mitigate that jumping around. Sure I will end up with a larger star but the movement will hopefully be averaged out over a couple of seconds. That's the theory anyway
You could also try de-focussing your guidestar a bit - can make tracking smoother.
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