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Hi, thanks for reporting - it looks like it was trying to work out the best payment currency for you based on the language settings in the request from your browser and that calculation was failing. I have changed things so that in the event of a failure of that sort, it will default to GBP (but you...

Hi William,

nice image - really good detail in there!

You can always press 'Stop Capture' if an individual video runs to more than 120s without hitting the frame count target.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, it might be worth turning off the option for SharpCap to use the focal length while testing - it does make plate solving quicker, but can cause it to fail if the entered value is significantly wrong (and sometimes reducers don't give the exact focal length expected). Once you get a plate solve s...

Hi, for solar flats, you should take them with the telescope pointing so that you are looking at the middle of the sun (sun filling frame without the flat cover attached). Usually they should be good for a whole session - until you move the camera relative to the telescope by taking it off/rotating ...

Hi,

thanks for sharing - hope that some people try it out and give you feedback

cheers,

Robin

Hi, OK, good information - I think this very much comes down to the mount only doing _approximately_ what SharpCap is asking it to - it shouldn't be doing that, but that doesn't mean it can't be worked around. If I make SharpCap recall the target position of the GOTO rather than trusting the mount t...

Hi Jonathan,

The small spike in intensity just before the brightness drops is an interference effect from the edge of the moon? - neat, and not something I have seen before.

Glad to hear that the latest update is working well for you.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, for the seeing monitor function, you only get the choice of how many frames to capture in the dropdown on the left - no choice in terms of time to capture for. When you are using the 'triggered' option, you can calculate how long the recording will be from the number of frames selected and the f...

Hi Mike, OK, that's odd then, since I have just checked and nothing in the mosaic tool deliberately sets the rate to Sidereal - it should set solar/lunar depending on target at the start of the alignment and keep it at that throughout. If you can spot at which stage it changes, that would be helpful...

Hi Geoff, one other thing that has cropped up in my testing and other feedback for the auto-alignment is that you need to make sure that the settings for RA/Dec backlash takeup are big enough. They default to 4 minutes of arc, but if your mount has backlash above that level (or even near it), then a...