[g__day (Matthew)]

Plate solved a 15 second shot of M20 in under 40 seconds for the first time! Big Whoop!

Also its not too shabby that the raw pointing of the Atlux with a SS2K-PC driving things from under the Sky6 PE and Tpoint. I'd say the the target was only a handful of arc seconds off given the image scale is 20 * 30 arc minutes!


Now I have to learn how to tune AT's parameters are faster! Possibly remove sky catalogues whose imaging scale I won't use. I have now moved the Sky Catalogue (25GB to a SSD), will be keen to see how this speeds thing up!

Software linkage was a tad tricky:
1. The Sky6 points to Vixen SS2K driver using a 70 star Tpoint Model
2. MaxPoint point to "A Sky6 controlled telescope" under ASCOM
3. AstroTortilla (64 bit) points to Maxpoint

Had to do it that way as the Sky's driver hub 32bit model isn't compatible with AT's 64 bit model.

Now have to see what happens when AT updates the SS2K's sync model. I note that the pointing ability of AT seems to be only within 1 arc minute by default - will be keen to see if its practical to go down as low as say 10 arc seconds!