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Hi Robin
thanks for your prompt reply !

That sounds really fine. So I will wait for this feature to come, hoping to prevent myself from an auto-guiding equipment.

Cheers
Horst

Hi Robin do you think it might be possible as part of a future revision of SharpCap to implement such a feature. A direct control of the mount over ASCOM is already possible by mean of the feature tracking option (without PHD2). The key idea of livestacking I guess is to get rid of the necessity for...

Hi Robin Oh, I got it. I was taking the wrong road.. My understanding was being able to prevent the loss of the target while live-stacking for a longer period of time (e.g. 15s exposure for some hours) My hope was to get rid of extra guiding equipment and weight on the mount by having some kind of f...

Hi Robin Last week we had clear skies and I performed my next trial run, unfortunately without success. The topic was that PHD2 was indicating ALERT messages concerning the camera during it’s calibration process. I selected within SharpCap 16 seconds as exposure time for the live stacking, whereas w...

Hi Robin
thanks a lot for your quick reply and the hints given!
I like SharpCap Pro very much and will try to verify the steps described as soon clear nights will appear again in southern Germany.

Best regards
Horst

Hello SharpCap team I’m using SharpCap Pro since last year when I bought an Altair 294C Pro TEC camera. The way I’m currently following is using the Live Stacking feature of SharpCap for DeepSky objects. After a few trial runs I realized issues with my Celestron Nextstar Evolution mount (non auto-gu...