Question about guiding directives

[Geert Vanhauwaert]

Hello

In directives reference I can see #AUTOGUIDE
Is there an inverse directive, to force an unguided image?
I want to take random sky images but don want to waste time in finding usable guide stars...

Regards
Geert

[Dick Berg]

Geert,

The easiest thing to do, if you are just running a few plans, is to disable autoguiding - in ACP/Preferences/Guiding tab, uncheck the box next to "Enable auto-guiding". Or you can set the "Max. unguided exposure interval:" in the next line to some enormously large number of seconds.

[Colin Haig]

Geert - is this related to taking dawn / dusk flats ?

[Geert Vanhauwaert]

Hello Coling.
The images I am taking are some kind of flats, but at same conditions of my ligths (just the same method used by professional observatories).
I already did this and have better results than with dusk/dawn flats, the ony drawback is that I must sacrifice some dark time to accomplish them.
Note that the dusk/dawn flats script provided by ACP works perfectly, and used it for many years.

Regards

[Geert Vanhauwaert]

Thank you Dick


I will try the seccond option.

Regards