PHD2 Support For SBIG AO-8 (Adaptive Optics)

[Kent DeGroff]

I want to use my thin OAG (Lodestar camera) with the AO-8. Does PHD2 support the AO-8 with a non-SBIG external guider?

Thanks for any info on the subject,

Kent

[Andy Galasso]

Hi Kent,

Please see this forum post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/open-phd-guiding/FAawsyZTiBs/um-z_Yg9CQAJ

Feel free to post back if that does not answer your question.

Andy

[JS]

Hi, is there an update on this? The only option I see (directly or using the SG API Guider) is the SBIG AO (INDI) and that fails to connect. Is it possible to use SGP and PHD2 and an SBIG ST2000XM/CFW10/AO-8?  I've looked up INDI, but not sure I understand whether it would help me here.

[ic5...@gmail.com]

I also would like to know if the AO8 (in my case with a STT 8300) would work with PhD and SGP.  I am getting a new system to set up in New Mexico and the AO8 is one option. I presently use a QSI/Starlight AO/Lodestar setup at home but if I go that route in NM it would be WAY more expensive since it would require a new camera and filters and a new guide camera instead of just the AO. I really do not want to buy an AO that will not work with the software!

[ic5...@gmail.com]

I would add two things:

1) The QSI/Lodestar/SXAO system works great.

2) The old thread on this is not much help since it offered few assurances and was very old. I really need to know if someone has actually used the AO8 recently with SGP and PhD and had it work

[bw_msgboard]

Hi ic5.  I will be surprised if you get any positive feedback on this.  Certainly, the SBIG AO has not been worked on by the main developers of PHD2 so I think you would be putting yourself on the outer fringe of the user community – assuming it worked at all.  Based on personal experience, a new remote observatory is not a good place to be working with untried or marginal configurations which is no doubt what’s behind your question.

 

Good luck,

Bruce

 

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[Jon Brewster]

Greetings.  Any update on this?  Very much desiring AO-8 support with PHD2 and SGP.

Jon

[Bruce Waddington]

There's no update but under the current circumstances it simply isn't going to happen.

Bruce