Mike - thanks for your note, The best I have seen with this camera is down around 1.2 - I was astounded. But after running the AF routinely independent of a sequence on that occasion, the actual run before the sequence failed. So I don;t know if the gear slipped on the focuser or what happened. Yesterday I had a very good focus during the day using the knobs on the focuser, but after locking the focuser and not messing with the scope at all, the AF again failed prior to the actual sequence - that;s where it started out as 8 and never found its way to a decent HFR value, even with me changing the step value as noted.
Total white out again tonight but I’ll send you a log next time after running the entire process again. Let me know if you can think of anything else in the meantime and thanks again.
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