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Old 17-07-2021, 08:02 PM
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Greg, this is what the Voyager local field focus interface looks like when it is in action. It measures HFD for stars in the field you are currently imaging and fits a spline curve to find the best focus.
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Cool to see how Voyager works.

The NINA crew have an upload service on their Discord server where you can give it your focus log data and get feedback on the various curve fit options while tweaking step sizes etc. From memory the main options are quadratic, hyperbolic, trend lines, or both with/without trend lines.

As commented above, we really are spoiled for choice in the imaging suites nowadays.
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Greg, @F3 in TheSkyX works really well and you don't need to slew away. Also, if you can characterize your filter offsets you can always focus with the same filter. This works quite well for NB.

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Asiair Pro and ZWO EAF works well for me.
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Greg, @F3 in TheSkyX works really well and you don't need to slew away. Also, if you can characterize your filter offsets you can always focus with the same filter. This works quite well for NB.

Peter
I have heard it works well. I have Sky X but not the yearly subscription model so its @focus 2. That works OK but I don't know that it is reliably accurate especially in variable seeing.

Planewave have a same location focus routine. I wonder if that would work with a non Planewave focuser.


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Greg, @F3 in TheSkyX works really well and you don't need to slew away. Also, if you can characterize your filter offsets you can always focus with the same filter. This works quite well for NB.

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Asiair Pro and ZWO EAF works well for me.
Those 2 accessories do seem to be very popular and very full featured.

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The answer to every astronomy software question is: NINA

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Cool to see how Voyager works.

The NINA crew have an upload service on their Discord server where you can give it your focus log data and get feedback on the various curve fit options while tweaking step sizes etc. From memory the main options are quadratic, hyperbolic, trend lines, or both with/without trend lines.

As commented above, we really are spoiled for choice in the imaging suites nowadays.
that's your graph? If so, that's a beaut. Very very good!!
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that's your graph? If so, that's a beaut. Very very good!!
Nope, just grabbed an example off the Discord server - Robofocus on my scope usually a bit more lumpy but still very reliable.
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