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Improving GOTO with DSLR


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Ok, I may be last to the party on this, but nevermind.

When doing a star align at setup, Using BYEOS or BYN "frame and focus" regime is a great way to get a very accurate alignment. Get it close with the finder scope, then bring up frame and focus in BYEOS/BYN. The cross hairs are right on center of the chip, plus you get a zoomed in window with adjustable magnification. Center using hand controller.

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I do it in APT it has similar features but you don't lose your night vision.

I use live view x10 and centre the target stars with the handset buttons.

Or now i'm going to use EQMOD, just synch with a few stars as I move merrily along

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I do it in APT it has similar features but you don't lose your night vision.

I use live view x10 and centre the target stars with the handset buttons.

Or now i'm going to use EQMOD, just synch with a few stars as I move merrily along

Why would you lose your night vision? Both BYEOS and BYN have red screen. Laptop brightness can be reduced. There is also program to make all laptop screens red...

EQMOD is for Synscan mounts. Ioptron has "synch to target" included in the firmware.

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My idea was that the method is more universal, as most DSLR users have either Canon or Nikon (so BYEOS/BYN applies to all of them), and accuracy, as the laptop screen is easier to see than the DSLR screen and frame and focus has a chip centered cross hair. That frame and focus window can be zoomed well over 35x over scope magnification, so a real close align is possible.

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All I do is centre each alignment star under the bullseye of PHD and put the same star bang in the middle of 10x Liveview.

Normally do 3 stars and from then on gotos on PHD are always virtually bang on the bullseye.

I only do it again if I manually move the mount or change the rig, takes about 5minutes or so.

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