Focus sequence by time

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Hello Leonardo and group
I am trying to find what is the best solution to a minor problem that I have.
My scope gets slight to defocus the first hour of observing or so until it gets temperature equilibrium.
What is the best solution to have more frequent focusing for the first hour and more rare for later on?

Regards
Nikos

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Hi NIkos,

you must acclimatate the environment and the telescope, usually this can get 1 or 2 hours.
Otherwise you must use temeprature like trigger.

All the best
Leonardo

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If waiting for equilibrium is not an option, you could use a dragscript to call one sequence for the first hour or so, with time based focus at a frequency that keeps it sharp, and then a second otherwise identical sequence with less frequent focus runs.

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