I have another suggestion to further improve this idea. When PHD2 loses the guide star if it could "auto select star" as a first port of call before starting to try and find the current star that would be great. I have done this manually on many occasions while watching the guiding during intermittant clouds, and it works very well. Often when the current guide star is lost there are other stars available on the screen. By auto selecting a star when it loses the curent star, if there is another one available it just jumps to that star and keeps guiding. It also works in reverse, when the thin clouds clear and the current star becomes saturated, in this case it jumps to a non saturated star and keeps guiding. Saves a lot of hassles with the mount jumping around looking for the current star.
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