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by soulbouy
Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:55 pm
Forum: How do I?
Topic: how to get sharpcap to move mount after platesolving
Replies: 10
Views: 2264

Re: how to get sharpcap to move mount after platesolving

thanks for your helpful reply Menno, shall try your suggestions.. One rather key thing I forgot to mention in my previous post, was that having slewed to the object of interest and carried out a plate solve, it might be the mount wasn't moved because when I took an exposure, the object was incredibl...
by soulbouy
Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:23 am
Forum: How do I?
Topic: how to get sharpcap to move mount after platesolving
Replies: 10
Views: 2264

Re: how to get sharpcap to move mount after platesolving

Hi all again So I gave this a try last night. Use my hand controller to tell the mount to point at a named object. The mount slewed to it. I had the Plate Solve settings to "select sync & re-centre". So I did a successful plate solve (well the solve message said "success") bu...
by soulbouy
Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:14 pm
Forum: How do I?
Topic: how to get sharpcap to move mount after platesolving
Replies: 10
Views: 2264

how to get sharpcap to move mount after platesolving

Hi all Sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but couldn't find any entries and the user manual isn't helping me ! I've got Sharpcap pro and ASTAP, plus the H18 data base. I've managed to run a successful plate-solve pointing at a random part of the sky, so ASTAP and Sharpcap are talking to each other....
by soulbouy
Tue Nov 02, 2021 12:26 pm
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: camera randomly disconnects - error message
Replies: 1
Views: 269

camera randomly disconnects - error message

Hi all In recent days I'm often - but not always - getting messages saying "camera appears to be disconnected". It's pretty random. Sometimes I can have my 2 ZWO cameras connected and can happily toggle between the two, then at other times I will try and connect one, and after couple of se...