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Good morning all,

New poster here so please be gentle :slight_smile: Ok so at the weekend my Lodestar X2 gave up the game and I had to send it back for repair, so I have been trying some short 90s subs unguided to at least give me something to do. However, as I am imaging unguided with the Linear Fast Reverse, there is a small amount of drift that over time equates to a large movement of my intended target across the frame.

My question is, once I have centred my target with PinPoint platesolve and started my imaging run, is there any way of automatically asking SGP to perform the recentring procedure after ā€œxā€ amount of frames or ā€œxā€ amount of time so that it can automatically recentre the target? I know I can manually do this but Iā€™d rather automate everything if possible.

Thank you for any help and also thank you to everyone at Main Sequence for providing such an awesome software package. I love SGP and it just keeps on getting better and better.

Phil

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Phil,

Welcome to the club!  I think the only way to solve your problem is to do multiple sequences. If you set it up so every X minutes you had a new target, it would auto center it each time.
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Hi Phil

I still have my old QHY5v mono and if your Lodestar is going to be some weeks, would you like to borrow it?

Barry

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Hi all,
I know this is an old topic and the work-around is to set up multiple sequences to trigger a re-centre of the target but I was wondering if there has been any thought about revisiting this to include the re-centre as part of a sequence? While the work-around works, it involves more time to set up sequences. In an ideal world this option could be set to re-centre every x number of frames, x number of minutes, x% drift etc.

Just a thought.

Cheers,

Gord

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