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Tracking

Some tests were made with the telescope blind tracking (i.e., not using the autoguider) where a drift was found of 0.17 arcsec per minute at hour angle of zero hours close to zenith, and of 0.6 arc sec per minute an an hour angle of 8 hours near the horizon. I.e., one can generally integrate a minute or more not using the autoguider without affecting the star images significantly.



Thomas Augusteijn 2005-10-27