Hi Marcelo,

It's summer here in the Southern Hemisphere and I'm learning how the modeling works in my Mach2. Two nights ago
the temperature at night was high, around 20ºC and in almost all the frames of that night my stars were elongated,
when the night before they were perfect. Then yesterday the temperature was 16ºC and the stars were perfectly round
again.

Yes, the temperature can affect both the refraction calculation and the Young modulus (flexure) of an instrument. APCC does account for refraction, but since flexure can also change with temperature, the model can change slightly.

A future version of APCC will be able to use APPM data collected over an arbitrary number of nights with a goal to predict flexure changes in a setup based on temperature.

So, as the temperature changes, you might consider doing new mapping runs to collect data points for that future version of APCC.

BTW, what type of telescope are you using?

-Ray Gralak
Author of PEMPro
Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center): https://www.astro-physics.com/apcc-pro
Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver: https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver

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It's summer here in the Southern Hemisphere and I'm learning how the modeling works in my Mach2. Two nights ago
the temperature at night was high, around 20ºC and in almost all the frames of that night my stars were elongated,
when the night before they were perfect. Then yesterday the temperature was 16ºC and the stars were perfectly round
again.

My installation is semi-permanent, without any recent changes. I am using 4 minute unguided narrowband exposures
and use a Pegasus Pocket Powerbox Advance to get the temperature.

Thanks