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Is anyone using SharpCap with the ZWO AM5 mount? How well does the ASCOM driver work with SharpCap? Can you use Ascom Device HUB to control the AM5 simultaneously, using SharpCap, PHD2 and say Stellarium? As you can guess, I'm trying to stay with SharpCap and a PC avoid going down the ZWO ASI route....

Robin Thanks - this helps. I'm struggling a bit with an Alt/Az mount (TTS-160), with an OTA rotator that's currently not perfectly concentric with the camera and OAG. My current sequence of a platesolve and goto triggers a rewind of the OTA rotator, which I follow by a command in SharpCap to rewind ...

In the sequence editor I'm confused about how the command: "Plate solve a single frame, sync the mount and re-GOTO the target co-ordinates " actually gets its information about the target co-ordinate. Do I need to tell SharpCap the target co-ordinates by entering RA DEC or Alt/Az prior to ...

My error. Problem fixed.
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Hi Robin, Here's the logfile for that session. I ran it just to collect data with the exposure errors, and it's highly reproducible. The only thought I have (probably based on ignorance) is that the file sizes are larger for the 2600. It almost looks as the start of the acquisition for the 1st frame...

Sharpcap version 4.0.9381.0 Camera ASI 2600 MCPro Since getting the 2600 I've noticed some issues that did not occur with the ASI 07 1MCPro. When I use a sequence to collect sets of frames, with high reliability the first one or two frames have a shorter exposure than requested. As shown in the atta...

I recently got a new OSC camera (ZWO ASI 2600 MC) and found when using a dual narrow band filter that images displayed with Debayer Preview on have a lurid pink background instead of gray/black :geek: . I don't remember this with my prior camera (ZWO ASI 071 MC), but maybe I'm not remembering correc...

Thanks - I'll change my scripts

If you are using the very latest SharpCap (4.0 version from the last week or two) then the 'capture still frames' step in the sequencer should automatically force PHD2 to re-find a star if one is missing when the step starts. Previous versions of SC 4.0 would do the find star if guiding was lost *d...

Hi Robin, I missed your message and just saw. I manually intervened when stars were visible after guiding stopped due to clouds, and selected a new guide star and started guiding again. Script follows: SEQUENCE SET CONTROL "Window Heater Power" TO On COOL DOWN TO -10 RATE 8 TOLERANCE 1 SET...