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Glad to hear you're up and running.

Steve.

Would it be possible to add a couple of functions to the crosshairs. 1) The ability to recentre the crosshairs (maybe a double click or something). The default is in the centre but once they're moved there's no way to be sure that they have been moved back to the centre. 2) The ability to lock the c...

The colour version of the QHY5 uses the same sensor (MT9M034) as the monochrome. The relative QE's are Mono = 75%, Colour = Blue 52%, Green 62%, Red 58%. I don't think that any of the options would be a bad purchase. They'll get you polar aligned which is the immediate problem you need solved. Steve.

Then, I would respectfully disagree. I have a Polemaster. Inside a Polemaster is a QHY5 mono camera and a 25mm c-mount lens. Sound familiar ? You can use a Polemaster with either the Polemaster software or Sharpcap for polar alignment. The Polemaster software is quite primitive compared to Sharpcap....

That's interesting. We commented that the long-drops were better there as everything that smells was frozen. That was in contrast to China where it was summer and the drop wasn't that long. You've got me envious with Svalbard. We decided to pass on going there for an eclipse a few years back and it'...

That's a good plan. Test out your new knowledge and then spend money only if you need to. Sounds like we share a similar level of crazy. We also went to Coldfoot/Wiseman for aurora and had great success. Coldest for us was -40C plus 40 degrees of windchill at the top of Atigun Pass. I have great res...

I have a QHY miniGuidescope for the Star Adventurer. You can buy it with or without the camera if you want to get one with a different sensor and/or colour. I have both a mono and colour. Both are fine. Colour is handy if you plan to get a telescope and want to do planetary imaging in the future. I ...

Kia Ora from across the ditch. I use a QHY5L with a 25mm C-mount lens which is the same as the Polemaster (which you may have heard of). I use this to polar align my Star Adventurer and larger mounts/telescopes. I mount the camera/lens on the Star Adventurer and then point it south(ish) which is hal...

I use a QHY5L (same sensor size) with a 25mm lens which is the same as the Polemaster. Being in the southern hemisphere, we are pointing it into a big dark void so the wide field of view helps a lot. At a dark site, SharpCap solves almost straight away.

Steve.

I'm pretty sure that you can do what the OP is trying to achieve already by using the ASCOM simulated telescope. With Carte du Ciel, you'd tell the simulated telescope to go to say, M42 by putting a (red) finderscope at the location and telling it to slew there. Manually point your scope to the same...