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Thanks Robin, it is good to hear the equipment I have should work. I will keep trying. The values associated with the exposure is as the following With the slider bar for the exposure the limits are .1 ms to 5 seconds With LX mode checked the slider bar exposure limits are .1ms to 30 seconds I do no...

I think my NexImage burst camera may have too much amplification. I did some playing during the day. I placed the Neximage camera into the ZXO mini guide scope I have. The specs on this camera is 30 mm lens diameter, focal lenght = 120 mm. https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/product/zwo-minguider-s...

I got a mini guide scope as you suggested. I tried it tonight and still could not get pass the first stage (Could Not Solve). I was looking around and saw something called Plate Solving. Do I need to do something with that? I have included to screen shots 1. The Polar Alignment from the Sharp Cap Se...

Thanks for the response. I actually have the Celestron Powerseeker 127 EQ. This is a Newtorian scope. I looked up the focal length for this scope and it is 1000mm. I cannot find the field of view for the Neximage camera. As I said I am new to this and some of these terms are foreign to me. It appear...

I am new with this software and would like to get some guidance on what I am doing wrong when I try to use Sharp Cap to Polar Align. I have a Celestron 127 telescope with a Explore Scientific iEX)S 100 tracking mount, and Celestron Neximage Curst C camera. I tried a couple of times to use the polar ...