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It's amazing what a little polar alignment can do! Since I had my rig up last night shooting (albeit briefly), I figured now that it's all aligned with the Southern Celestial Pole, I'd give the solar mosaic tool another go, and it went flawlessly! So maybe that should be my take-away, and maybe try ...

UPDATE (Solution): While playing around, I noticed a little button that I had never noticed before on the "Display Histogram Stretch" window. When I clicked on it, it turned the Display Stretch on and off (it's a little "on/off" icon). Clicking on that solved my problem! I confes...

I look forward to giving it a try!

Thanks again for the replies and the help, and sorry for what are probably very basic questions. It seems that I have a 50:50 record of getting the mosaic function to work properly or not, and wonder if my approach for slewing to the sun could be the issue. I have generally been using an ASIAIR to f...

Thanks, Robin,

So if I do a test run, and it's not quite right, is there a way to adjust it within the testing process, or do you have to start the alignment over?

Thanks,

James

Thank you again for the replies to my question. This morning I had another try with the mosaic tool, and again it told me that I was something like 7 degrees off (or something like that), and that I might want to realign. But when it started to shoot the mosaic panels, it seemed to be going pretty w...

Thank you for the reply. I did not GOTO the sun using Sharpcap--I used the AM5's own controller to do the GOTO, then adjusted with the hand controller. Would doing the GOTO in Sharpcap be a better approach (and if so, I did not realise that Sharpcap had that functionality, so I'll have to look for i...

I was so excited to try the new solar mosaic function the other day, and on my first attempt to use it, it worked perfectly. But when I tried again today, it kept telling me, after I aligned with the crosshairs, that my mount was 7.5 degrees off and it might affect performance. Sure enough, when I s...

This is great news, I’ve been hoping this feature would be added, especially for solar imaging. Thanks!

I have recently got a new mount (the AM5) and have not been able to figure out how to get Sharpcap to stop trying to connect to my old HEQ5-Pro. I have downloaded the ASCOM driver and have tried to connect via EQMOD (without success, despite having checked what my COM port is). I am not all that fam...