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Originally Posted by h0ughy
... I had a EQ6 and still own a heqpro5. I bought the sky6 from an IIS member and loaded it in the hope to use AUTOMADOME. No support, but they wanted me to pay for the licence yearly. and it never worked for me
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C'mon mate, no support?! That's not fair. I remember that thread - it was you who gave up, not SB and now you're bagging them? You had 2 Bisque brothers respond - starting the day after you posted (ie pretty much instantly). At no point in that thread (that I was following - because I wanted to help too) do I recall them saying "pay up". You probably need to move on ... or buy TheSkyX
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Originally Posted by Shiraz
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Surely the sophistication of high end mounts resides in the associated software? As far as I can tell, the EQ8 should happily run with TPOINT, TheSkyX, anything ASCOM or whatever else you care to use, so it should be just as sophisticated as the high end mounts if you want to go down the automation route. If I have got this wrong, would appreciate feedback since I had been planning to place an order for an EQ8.
regards ray
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That's a good question Ray. The sophistication of high end mounts resides in their mechanical accuracy. Software, no matter how sophisticated, doesn't count for anything unless the mechanics can keep up. I don't own an EQ8 or a PMX but I can speak to the mechanical accuracy of a PME. My RMS pointing with a TPoint Supermodel is 9 arcseconds RMS with a peak error of 20. When the mount is asked to move 5 arcseconds, it moves 5 arcseconds. I use CCD Autopilot for automation. When it goes off to a focus star and comes back, my target is between 0.5 and 1.5 arcseconds away from the requested coordinates - every time and with only one iteration plate solve and correction. My raw PE is 1.6 arcseconds peak to peak. That's what sophistication means
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If an EQ8 can match that or even get close I'd say Software Bisque is in trouble. But I wouldn't lay bets on it.
