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Once the guide star is acquired, the guide script keeps the telescope centered. The script does the following:
- takes a picture using guimage
- subtracts off a dark
- determines the centroid within a small box in the center using the XVista centroid command
- offsets the telescope as needed
- repeats
Louis-Gregory Strolger
2012-01-09