Astroart guiding calibration

[Astroscot2]

For those who use Astroart for autoguiding, can you confirm that the auto calibration is

linked to the guidecamera exposure time.... I.e 3 second exposure is 3 seconds of calibration?

Thanks

[Merlin66]

The auto calibration is independent of the guide camera exposure settings.

You can verify this by using the simulator guide camera and simulator mount

[Astroscot2]

Hello, ive noticed that if my guidecamera is taking 1 second exposures for autoguiding then I get an error saying that guidestar is not moviing more than 0.5 pixels when I run the auto calibration. however if I increase the exposure time say to 2 seconds or more the galibration works fine ?

When you auto calirate Merlin, how long does this normally take ?

Thanks

Mark

[Merlin66]

Guiding on hot pixels?

I've been using AA5 to do spectral imaging with the C11 and Genesis.

Guiding on a 8.5mag star with the Genesis/ Lodestar I used a 1.5sec exposure.

I can't remember how long it took to calibrate - but only 20-30sec maybe.

(I had to reset the guide rate in EQMod to 1 to get a good outcome)

Hope this helps