AOX and Dithering in Maxim DL 6.26

I have been working with my AOX which is using a Starchaser SC-3 Long Guider for imaging. I have finally got it working well with my mount and am getting long runs without errors that drive it off the guide star. However, I am now trying to dither and although the Setup tab on the AO Control has dithering checked and an amplitude of 5, I get no movement of the main image when imaging with an Autosave sequence. I've tried larger amplitudes up to 16. The Track tab status box says "Dithering, Tracking" but I get no apparent dithering. Am I missing something in set up? Thanks for any guidance.

 

Doug, thanks for getting back to me. At least I can take that issue off my list for a while. Do you know if any of the oversight programs like ACP, CCD Commander, or Voyager handle dithering of the AO externally to Maxim? I will ultimately go one of those directions anyway for observatory automation when I satisfy myself that I understand my base system and software. I have been producing some nice images despite the inability to dither, but when looking at very low levels of light, I am competing with some of the natural CMOS Chip patterns and dithering would help me bring out those features. I may have to wait for a while or move to traditional guiding while I wait on the Maxim fix.

 

Thats what I was thinking. I assumed from the documentation that this is the strategy employed internally with Maxim as well. I'll keep up to date on Maxim releases addressing this issue.
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