Hello Stan, Usually just turning off the drive or disengaging it works fine. You will be surprised at how many stars show up at twilight on the CCD image. Jeff At 12:03 -0700 07/17/2007, Stan Gorodenski wrote: >p.s.., I should have added that slewing the telescope greatly reduces >the integration time over a pixel of any star in a twilight flat and so >it seems one could completely eliminate the presence of stars for all >practical purposes. >Stan > >Stan Gorodenski wrote: > >>Brian, >> >>Finally, since there is always the danger of still imaging stars during >>the twilight, what about slow slewing the telescope in random directions >>as it is integrating? Am I correct that your reference to dithering is >>probably doing the same thing? >>Stan -- Jeff Hopkins HPO SOFT Counting Photons http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html Hopkins Phoenix Observatory 7812 West Clayton Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A. (623)849-5889 (623) 247-1190 (Fax) www.hposoft.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.