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This turned out to be substantially more complex than anticipated and I am still not 100% sure of what is going on. In case somebody else runs into similar issues this is what I ended up concluding/doing. One bottom line appears to be that coordinates are not consistent between Wikipedia (J2000), St...

This is getting curioser and curioser as Alice might say. May 12 I pointed to Arcturus but last night I told the mount to go to Vega, so the coordinate issue is even weirder. I don't specify coordinates, just command the mount by object, so whether Vega or Arcturus something is not right. I need to ...

Hi Robin, Still out of luck with the plate solving. Picture shows what it did last night after I told the mount to go to Vega. TOP ROW: Left is initial position without plate solving. Middle is after plate solving with “Offset the mount…” setting, moved 0.79 deg. Right is after I then did another pl...

Thanks. If this persists I'll capture a log file and upload. I'll look into SkyTechX as well. The only drawback is that I play on both Windows and Mac machines and SkyTechX is unfortunately only Windows.

Hi Robin, Below is a screen dump of EQMOD after parking the scope. The first time this problem occured it was indeed an issue with the Alignment/Sync area; once I changed the “3-point + nearest point” to just “Nearest point” and reset the point count the issue went away, but this time it seems corre...

Sorry, decenters... Decanters sounds like we're at at wine tasting...

I have seen the following issue addressed occasionally but have not seen a satisfactory answer… Some of the time plate solving and centering on a target works for me but in most cases it doesn’t. I use an EQ6-R PRO mount and EQMOD, and use AstroTortilla for plate solving. What happened last night is...

Hi Robin, thanks for clarifying!

Paul

I am a bit confused about the relationship between gain units set in Sharpcap and those presented by ZWO and probably other manufacturers, i.e. the 0.1 dB units. I assume that Sharpcap units sent to the camera are linear - is this correct? If so, a ZWO gain of e.g. 200 means 20 dB, but is this in po...

Thanks Robin, now life makes sense again. It was always a bit unclear to me how DSS dealt with debayering (or not).

Paul