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by jeruss
Mon Mar 07, 2022 5:57 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: Problems with plate solving
Replies: 5
Views: 783

Re: Problems with plate solving

Thanks Robin. Fortunately I still have the older version in my download folder.
by jeruss
Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:46 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: Problems with plate solving
Replies: 5
Views: 783

Re: Problems with plate solving

Robin,I am attaching the log file...hopefully. The error message is in it. Hope you can figure something out. Thanks so much for the help you provide to your users.
by jeruss
Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:07 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: Problems with plate solving
Replies: 5
Views: 783

Re: Problems with plate solving

thanks for the reply Robin. I will try to figure out how to do this.
by jeruss
Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:21 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: Problems with plate solving
Replies: 5
Views: 783

Problems with plate solving

Greetings: I have recently been having some problems with sharpcap platesolving. I am using cpwi as planetarium software and I have the platesolving software set to synch and center object in frame. I select an object in cpwi and tell the mount to go to it and then select the plate solve button in s...
by jeruss
Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:12 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Replies: 10
Views: 3936

Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium

Thanks so much for this info. I will try this.
by jeruss
Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:11 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Replies: 10
Views: 3936

Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium

Thanks for the reply. Now I just need to figure out how to setup stellarium to talk to cpwi
by jeruss
Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:38 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Replies: 10
Views: 3936

Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium

Greetings, I need to know what mount option do I select under the hardware tab in order to get sharpcap plate solving to work with stellarium as my planetarium program. I have been using cpwi but it has a very limited database. Thanks.
by jeruss
Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:10 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: question re polar alignment function
Replies: 2
Views: 553

Re: question re polar alignment function

Thanks so much for the reply, Robin. I will definitely give it a shot.
by jeruss
Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:36 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: question re polar alignment function
Replies: 2
Views: 553

question re polar alignment function

Greetings: I love the polar alignment function in sharpcap. It works great with my small 60mm refractor and my asi 294 camera. Was wondering about trying it with my mak cass and the same camera. the fov would be about 36' by 25'. I realize this would be slightly outside the recommended parameters bu...
by jeruss
Wed Nov 18, 2020 9:38 pm
Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
Topic: narrowband filter effect on focusing and plate solving
Replies: 4
Views: 1190

Re: narrowband filter effect on focusing and plate solving

Thanks again for the reply. Does anyone on forum have actual experience with this setup?