Why does the AO-7 sometimes drive the guide star off the tracker?

This was a software bug in the CCDOPS software that would occur if you misoriented the back half of the AO-7 (the mirror portion) relative to the "right-angle" piece.  This has been fixed in CCDOPS version 5.1 and later.

 

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