SharpCap Forums

Robin, Would it be possible for SharpCap to grab the position information when you use the "Sync PC clock" function and then apply it to the FITS header of any subsequent images until the camera gets disconnected ? That way you could run the camera in 8-bit mode until the GPS information i...

Scrap that. I've found how I can move that bar around (right-click / Move).
Learning Windows - One astronomy application at a time.

Steve.

I would have thought "GPS ON" would have the window visible and "GPS OFF" would close the window completely. Maybe there's a circumstance I haven't thought of where you would want the window present & minimized but the GPS Off. Part of the issue for me appears to be the way t...

Direct hit. Thanks.

There's still the little niggle thing of the minimized GPS window sitting on top of the frame progress information if the main screen is maximised.
Thanks for the 16bit information.

Steve.

Thanks Robin. That's nice to get that one solved. I still get rubbish GPS data if the image is set to 16 bit. I haven't seen anyone else mention it so I assume it's specific to my early camera but then I don't know if people are using 16bit mode for timing and they may not have noticed. Could you co...

This seems to be a commonly described problem on the Occultation mailing lists. My latitude reported by SharpCap is around 1-2km out. It's also quite unstable. Using your description of the long/lat format, I tried it with QHY's TimeREC program and the decoded position reported is rock solid and is ...

Well, look at that. Just after you go to the effort to add that in, someone on Cloudy Nights points out that you can use the ASCOM mount simulator to achieve the same result with what you already had. Thread (using different tools here) - https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/583218-where-is-my-camera-...

Great. Thanks.

Steve.

Displaying the result in the notification bar would be great. That's way better than the alternative - nothing. Is it possible to link to planetarium software to show the solved position without a physical goto mount in the equation ? I imagine that would be the ideal outcome but it's in the "n...

Just showing the result is absolutely useful as the point of plate solving is to find the target. Even if it takes 60 or 120 seconds, that's still better than being totally blind or solving the following day to find you got 5 hours of the sky next your target. There's no reason why that function sho...