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I learned about this from looking at a few DIY SSM guides, but: They pretty much take a signal from a photodiode (not focused on anything) and just measure the low pass (average) and high pass component of the signal. Then out of nowhere is a magic formula that is seeing (arc-sec)= (prefactor) x (rm...

Yes, I know there is a seeing monitor. But it would also be nice if Sharpcap could do "solar scintillation" mode, where all it does it capture the total integrated intensity from a camera sensor, and then runs whatever low-pass / high-pass algorithm on that intensity to derive seeing in ar...

Bug: running at full ROI, the solar colorization starts off at full speed, then gradually slows down until the display is only about 1 fps.
However, the capture speed (framerate at bottom left of screen) is still full speed.
At partial ROI it works fine.

Hi, right now no, but it is something worth considering. The approaches to deal with this at the moment are * Adjust the mount settle delay in the hardware settings to allow a longer time after the slew is complete before SharpCap considers the mount settled * Use a retry step in the sequence to al...

It seems that the sequence aborts when a single plate solve fails, e.g. when it takes a frame in the middle of movement.
Is there a way for sharpcap to do a cursory evaluation for streaked stars before sending it over to the plate solver?

It seems choosing the solar colorscale causes the framerate to drop to around a third. Bug?

I've been using the Push-to assistant along with telescope simulator in Stellarium and it works well to achieve what I want. But really, all I need is for the little "plate solve and resync" button in the mount control section to loop. The problem with using the push-to assistance is that ...

Currently, mono cameras display in black and white. [obviously] I was doing some solar imaging today with a narrowband filter and realized it would be pretty cool to choose a custom colorscale, e.g. black -> orange -> yellow -> white, so it vaguely looks like what people think the actual sun looks l...

Hello, I've been using the push-to assistant to give continuous plate solving for the last month or so. Initially using the 4.1 Beta and the two most recent official versions. I've only run into this problem the last few days, so not sure what changed in my setup, but... I'll start Sharpcap and the ...

wow, amazing