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Hi, there is an experimental 'stellar photometry' feature which will add an overlay giving details like the number of photons in the frame from a particular star. At the moment, all you get is the on-image readout of the data, and there is no way to pick the stars beyond using the selection box to n...

Hi,

yes, that could be an issue - currently the way that the backlash handling works expects to be sent a position to move to, and will make adjustments as required. Sending a 'keep moving until I tell you to stop' would be awkward. Hmmm...

cheers,

Robin

Hi, I'm afraid that youtube videos aren't really my strong point, but I can provide some pointers... Enclose the imaging steps before the meridian in a 'Stop running these steps when <Distance> degrees from the meridian'. Every degree is 4 minutes of time, so unless your subs are longer than 4 minut...

Ok, that's not too hard either.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, I'm afraid it's not obvious from the ASCOM log which one was carried out from CdCiel - probably at about 8:30-8:40pm from the slightly different commands seen there, but the slews in that section of the file seem the same in terms of the logged info as the SharpCap ones. Interestingly there are ...

Hi Carl, not quite sure what has happened with the second attachment - sort of looks like it is there but it isn't. You ought to be able to add multiple files and either place them in the post or if you don't they appear at the bottom as download links. Good work on getting out and getting some more...

Hi, looks like we have a different issue here - from the logs, it seems that the mount ASCOM driver is sometimes ignoring the sync request without raising an error - for instance Debug 22:42:08.464954 #1 Notification (Status=OK): Plate solve succeeded, position found to be RA=10:30:04,7,Dec=+22:50:1...

Thanks for posting both logs - very useful, but not necessarily good news... Taking the example of the goto to M87 starting at 19:58:29, the following information comes out 19:58:29.285501 SharpCap catalog co-ordinates : RA=12:30:48.0,Dec=+12:24:00 (J2000) position to RA=12:32:02.7,Dec=+12:15:54 (JN...

Hi Bill,

since I found and answered the other copy first, I moved that one here into bug reports - I will lock this topic and continue the discussion as needed in the other copy.

cheers,

Robin

Hi Bill, thanks for posting the log - from the details in it, it looks like this is very similar to another issue that I am currently trying to solve (https://forums.sharpcap.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7618). It seems that in both cases the camera stops responding to requests for frames without any usefu...