Ability to control Dithering settings

Glabella

Any opportunity to be able to adjust the 2 dither setting as well as the ability to simply turn off dithering and have it stay off until it’s turned on again. Like many others we perform preprocessing with external software and would appreciate the ability to change dithering as per above at least during DSO imaging. Since tracking and stability during tracking makes for most consecutive images don’t have same coordinates anywhere near the sensor pixels as the prior image it seems redundant to have any dithering but good to have a choice one way or another. Thanks.

Tech@ZWO

Glabella Thank you for your suggestions, For astrophography, dither is neccessary, otherwise the 'walking noise' will destroy the images, we also tested that on S50.

Daemon42

FWIW, I'm not really convinced that it has real dithering. For higher end scopes that do dithering they often are only shifting by a few pixels one way or the other, but S50 raw images are often off by quite a bit more than that. My suspicion is that due to the fairly large amount of gear lash, what they're calling dithering is just a side effect of moving, and then drifting off target a little due to the gear lash, catching up, rinse repeat. Which means it's not likely they could turn it off.
And yes, because it's an alt/az scope field rotation means very little actually lines up with the same sensor pixels over time, in theory if it tracked perfectly and you could turn dithering off, then there'd be increased noise right in the center of the frame as there'd be more alignment there as everything else rotates around it.