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Brian,, on my last time out I did find and move that center line to the left. I took two stacked sequences from two different positions when moving left. There is still no image at all (except for a good star field) to be seen in the stacked Fits Lib. picture. But a better single picture image does ...

Ok Brian, so I understand the material pertaining to collumation is near by, just scroll a bit more down. Over time you will see I'm really re-studying carefully that manual and I pray you will help me solve the horrible problem that is still the missing stacked pictures of M27. I'm now going to rep...

I'm reading for the umpteenth time the SharpCap Manual as I have made a couple of mistakes that I should have not made which proves my need for the review. It's a wonder how many things I could not work into my memory are now getting tucked away there. This is making me feel a little better realizin...

Thanks Robin, I'm going to find that save icon you mentioned right now, because I think that will be needed. I'm also going to re-read the instruction manual front to back. I'm presuming the one I can get off of this HELP SITE is very up to date and might cover some things last years version, which ...

Thank you Robin for your suggestion. I will take it into the Field on the next clear night and let you know what happens. Please keep an eye open for my reply as it might be MANY nights away. I have noticed in the past when stacking on M51 (like ten attempts) I was missing so much of it that I was n...

Here is one of my camera settings. The only thing I can tink of That I might have tried,but failed to think of, was trying to stack not applying a Dark Frame. But I doubt that would be my problem. [ZWO ASI178MC] Debayer Preview=On Pan=0 Tilt=0 Output Format=PNG files (*.png) Binning=1 Capture Area=3...

I use a Celestron SKYPRODIGY 130 Computerized Telescope. Focal length of 650mm and a focal ratio of 5. It has been an inexpensive and satisfactory way for me to get introduced to astrophotography. My camera is a ZWO ASI 178MC. I did a lot of reading on the forum but can't find any problem reported l...

Thanks Robin. So it is credible that my problem was that the camera was not plugged in. Ok, I hope our correspondence will help some others avoid frustration.
Live and learn,,, Carl

My son's visit seems to have straightened things out. I say seems because I still think something is loose here. He got rid of the extra icons easily but he thinks somehow I did something that brought them onboard, I did not. Here is the really loose part: He demonstrated that I needed to have the c...

Thank you Robin. My son will make his monthly 200 mile R/R trip here this coming weekend. He is my computer Guardian. He has told me that he understands the directions you have given me and I'm happy that he will undertake to go through every step to straighten out this problem. This having multiple...