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Hi, thanks for the data - I can see the plots for the cases which failed and they look like the should work, although they are very much 'V' shaped curves rather than 'U' shaped, which might be part of the issue (you tend to get U shapes if you do a narrower scan close to best focus position, V shap...

Hi, I wonder if the problem is actually the 'POTH' - that is now old software and has been replaced by ASCOM's new 'Device Hub Telescope'. The first thing to try is to download and install the very latest ASCOM platform from https://ascom-standards.org/Downloads/Index.htm and then try using 'Device ...

Hi Mike, yes, a full log file of a session where you hit the problem would be great, along with any comments you have on things you noticed happening that might be of interest. As I mentioned above, it might be best to split the action into the initial GOTO (no plate solve selected) and then a plate...

Hi, let me think about this one - the Ephemeris data looks sort of promising as it has the info in we need (RA, Dec, Magnitude, plus some we dont) and it also has a fairly fixed format. On the other hand, what if SharpCap could download the MPC orbital elements and calculate the ephemeris? In that c...

Hi, I just did a test with CPWI and my Nexstar SE mount. It looks like CPWI bypasses the normal handset time/date routines (the handset display changes to 'BOOT LOADER Serial Pass Through'. CPWI also seems to report the current PC time via the ASCOM driver, so it looks like the CPWI software already...

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which new version did you test? I checked that the change had been made to fix this, and it all seems fine to me in 4.1.12100

cheers,

Robin

Hi Jean-Francois, I've just tested with my 174M and with the January QHY SDK (currently in SharpCap), almost all still frame captures seem to take twice as long as they should. Now and then one frame will go through in the correct time, or just a few seconds more than the correct time, but otherwise...

Hi, what format do the co-ordinates for the asteroids come in (is there a standard format from some online source like the Minor Planet Center?). SharpCap already has code to detect and interpret data created by the AAVSO web site when pasting custom targets or reading custom catalogs, so I don't mi...

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thanks, that's good to know - I will try to work out a way to make a button or similar for this...

cheers,

Robin

Hi, you are right that closing and re-opening the camera will reset the stack, but there are a couple of other options that might do the trick 1) Use the 'Reconnect Camera' option from the camera menu - that might be sufficient, although it doesn't quite reset everything that close/reopen does. It m...