Automated Focusing, what path to choose?

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Your main software (eg SGP) will send out a command along the line of "move to 1256" or whatever and the controller will read that command and generate the electrical pulses required to move the stepper in the focuser to get it to the desired position. you need a controller to interface between the software and whatever hardware you have

Thanks Ray :-)

[Atmos (Colin)]

Well it looks like I am going to HAVE to buy FocusMax over the coming days. Bought a RoboFocus from a fellow ISS member so I am hoping that arrives some time next week. Going to have to figure out how to get everything attached correctly when it all arrives.
It sounds like FocusMax is going to do a better job than Maxim DL at doing the whole automated focusing thing.

Thanks everyone for the wealth of information.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Hi Russell,

I am using SGP and you only need to manually focus once - SGP takes it from there. You do not need to calibrate anything, and as it has been said before, the scope remains on the target while refocusing, and if there is any drift during focusing routine, SGP will put it back on track after focusing routine. With NB filters, it takes about 2-3 minutes to adjust focus.

thanks Slawomir, I'm kind of embarrassed i didn't look into this more, earlier on! It sounds so much easier!!

Russ