Hi all,
last night I encountered the following problem:

I set in the scheduler focusing after every 60 minutes. Focusing worked fine, but the guiding star moved some arc seconds during the focusing procedure, but was still in the green square. This leads to the problem, that after restart guiding and subsequent starting of the new image the guider tried to get the guiding star at the "right" position. This leads to elongated stars (and therefore bad pictures) after every focusing run! I'm guiding with OAG, so last night I had a focal length of 1500mm.

Would it be possible to handle guiding after focusing the same as after dithering? After dithering the "delta" of the guiding star is set to zero if I'm correct.

My rig: EQ8-R, 12" F5 Newton, Guiding with OAG, Kstars 3.6.9, INDI 2.0.6

Thanks a lot.

Jürgen

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