Hi,

Please disconnect dithering from guiding. The Seestar has this functionality and it would be really helpful for EAA,

Thanks

    ete Hello. Do you mean turning off the dithering function during guiding?

        PMTeam@ZWO Do you mean turning off the dithering function during guiding?

        ZWO: what everybody wants is for you to decouple the dither process from the auto-guiding process. They have no mathematical relationship with each other -- why are you artificially connecting the two different processes?

        To dither without autoguidng running (or with autoguiding temporarily stopped), just switch the mount's slew rate to the 0.5x to 1x sidereal rate. Apply the random walk slew from the original position the mount was pointed to when the session started. Then wait for the mount to settle (and restarting autoduiding if it was originally turned on). You can determine the settling time without even using a guide scope, and using temporary short exposures from the main camera.

        Auto guiding has to do with correcting mount and polar alignment errors. Dithering has to do with correcting camera sensor errors (especially with the ZWO ASI2600 and ASI6200 cameras which have a lot of warm and hot pixels). They have nothing to do with one another.

        Chen

            PMTeam@ZWO No, we want to dither without guiding. As Chen said both are not related. And with the Seestar it’s not a problem.

            Your cameras have a strong walking noise pattern which can be removed with dithering. But it’s annoying and expensive to buy guiding hardware to use this feature which the rest of the world has already implemented
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                ete
                I understand what you mean, I will feedback to the development team, thank you.

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