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I would love to see an auto exposure function too both for allsky and live broadcast with a QHY camera. I setup a camera on the telescope to watch the sky through the dome opening and would have loved an auto exposure function that would just work through the night and stay within a set gain/exposur...

Got it working very nicely in the end, i also threw so live stacking in there to improve SNR.

Here's the result after stacking 60 focus shifted images with 50 exposures each. (t's a regular rock, not a micrometeorite)

I did find a small problem, i can't find a way to make it save all the files in the same folder (i guess it's a new "sequence for every capture), if i change the filename template so it doesn't include time it will just save over the last file. EDIT: Fixed it by adding frametime in the filename...

Thanks for your fast reply!
I'm already up and running with the sequencer, probably got like 75% of how it want it to work!

I'm working on a project where i want to find micro meteorites and take images of them, to do that i want to use Sharpcap with a ZWO camera and motorfocuser i have here. Testing it manually it works great, but i want to do it automatically, would someone be willing to help me write a script for this...

Camera works perfectly with Sharpcap, but the box for Sensor analysis and focus assistant started out so tiny that i couldn't find it at first, it was pretty much a single pixel so i had a hard time resizing it, could you make it possible to reset the box to a certain size midscreen or a set size as...

How would i use PHD without a guidecamera?

I'm using SharpCap to capture deep sky and also live stack on a setup with a 10 Micron mount and it doesn't need guiding, i would still like to be able to use dithering so i wonder if a unguided dither option could be added? My thoughts for options for unguided dither: Dither by time or after a set ...