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Tonight I had a chance to test the sequence planner wizard again. This time I tried saving the config file and loading it again later. When I tried to load it I got a pop-up error window: "The sequence plan could not be loaded. The details of the error were: Could not parse unexpected content w...

Sorry for late reply (weather not clear lately, not doing AP last week).

Yes I'm always using the same cameras for my AP.

Robin, I'm sorry to report that I encountered the same problems again with the Sequencer Planner (wizard) tool. I think the sequencer Editor works fine but I'm still putting it through it's paces. The Sequencer Planner wizard continues to revert to settings not set in the wizard. I could not get it ...

Hello again!

The name of the mount for "Select Hardware" in SharpCap is "EQMOD ASCOM HEQ5/6".

The mount is an Orion Atlas Pro. The software I use to point the scope is TheSkyX.

Bert

There is an ASCOM window that pops up with either SkyX or with your software, but unless I have the mount hooked up I can't pull details from that window. Looking on the harddrive, there's an "ASCOM Diagnostics" program that says "ASCOM Platform 6.3-6.3.0.2821". I will see if the...

Robin, Thanks again for information. I finally had a night to test things out again. For some reason, tonight even though SharpCap said it was successful with plate solve, the coordinates were far off. Not sure what happened. I looked at the log file like you mentioned, and I could not see any entry...

Robin, I had success with plate solving tonight! I installed the ANSVR software/database since I last tried this. I switched the setting on SharpCap "prefer to use" to "Astrotortilla/ANSVR/ASPS" from "ASTAP". On my first try this also did not work. I tried a different p...

Yes, I was kind of foreseeing something like a pixel offset index, and then maybe just do a pattern like a square, or whatever PhD does. I suppose when using the sequencer I could also do it manually by inserting a delay somewhere, then doing my dither, then telling sharpcap to resume. (I'd have to ...

Hi again Robin. First -- many thanks for new update! I just ran the sequencer again on my camera (the ZWO ASI-294) and it seems you fixed the bugs! The sequencer wizard options "stuck" this time and wrote to the file! Wow, this is true customer support! I will hopefully test it "in th...

Robin, I upgraded to 3.3.7351 as mentioned and the problems persist. When I bring up the "Deep Sky Sequence Planner" tool, several of the settings do not "stick" when I click on the "run" button. In my case, I never shoot PNG files, always FITS, and I specified FITS in ...