John replied to the topic 'New Focus Algorithm in Ekos' in the forum. 2 years ago

Hi Doug, Matteo, Jim and Bernd,

I reached out to Jeff Winter at GoldAstro to see if he would be willing to collaborate. He's currently busy on a project but said he'd get back to me, so I'll let you know how things go. I'm sure you've seen the calculator on the GoldAstro website:
www.goldastro.com/goldfocus/focus_calculator.php

So as we started off discussing, as a way to ensure Step Size is set to a "sensible" value this could have some merit. Don't forget though that we should be able to do better than just "somewhere in the NCFZ" by curve fitting the datapoints.

So for the inexperienced user it should provide some assistance during setup but I'm not sure it provides anything to the experienced user who has spent time working out his/her setup and has arrived at values that suit their equipment. Or am I missing something? What would your workflow be if this feature was available?

TIA

Regards,
John.

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