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Old 13-10-2011, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by frolinmod View Post
25 minutes is a long time to go with no guiding and ProTrack disabled unless your polar alignment is very good indeed. A great big R Lee Ermey "Hoorah!" to you if your polar alignment is that good. In my case, in order to go that long in CCDsoft I had to increase the tracking box size or whatever it's called so that the star didn't slowly drift all the way outside the box.

I was able to get 20 minutes and could've gone 25 minutes but as you say that was only after several iterations of improving my polar alignment and making sure balance was spot on.

By the way how do you increase the size of the tracking box in CCDsoft?
That could be handy at times.


Greg.
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