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I would take the brightest magnitude

Hi Robin,

Not a must condition but I would add if possible, at least the magnitude range, just to easily see if your instrument is capable to measure it. Filter and variable type could also be useful.

cheers
JSoalz

Hello Robin, I want to get into the variable stars’ world and try to contribute here. Also I was investigating about the annotation’s files used in Sharpcap. I wanted to import the AAVSO Alerts “.CSV” file generated at: https://filtergraph.com/aavso?orderby=period However, I had to make heavy excel ...

Good idea,

I will try. Thank you!

JSolaz

Hello Robin, One feature I think would be useful after plate solving would be the possibility to add a maker on top the image specifying desired RA/Dec. This feature is already available in ASTAP. I think this would be very handy when trying to image faint objects like asteroids, variable stars, gal...

Hello Don & Robin, The other day I was thinking in a similar use of the “solar masking” proposal you are discussing. The use would be to image faint planetary satellites like Phobos and Deimos. You clearly will understand the needs just looking at my poor images of Mars and its satellites. It is...

Hi there I’m new to this forum. I don’t know if it has been asked before, but when trying to platesolve with ASTAP software Sharpcap does not find it in my computer because it is searching to the C: hard disk. In my case, ASTAP is really installed but on my other F: hard disk. I also notice that Ast...

Ok, thnaks for your undestanding
Cheers

Hi Robin again, Put in another way, the process would be like this: 1.- The user selects a target position in the sky by RA & DEC or by target name. 2.- Sharpcap sorts out a very simplified star database centered in the target position with a radius of 10 degrees (for example) 3.- The user manua...

Thanks for your answer Robin, I fully agree with you, but my intention was to create an all sky star database with the same star density currently used by Sharpcap polar align function. This way we dramatically reduce database size and processing time. Images for solving the field would typically be...