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Hi, the best thing to do is to set up the mount to the best of your ability and then try to connect to it in SharpCap. Once you have done that, please post details of any error you get along with the contents of the SharpCap log (which will reveal more details of the error - hopefully). If connectio...

Yep, one liner

cheers,

Robin

Hi,

glad to hear that it is working now I like the idea of setting the level of your dob using the tool to find the celestial pole!

Clear skies!

cheers,

Robin

Hi,

yes, that should be possible - extra FITS headers are usually easy

cheers,

Robin

Hi, yes, the fix for the circles making it to the output file should also apply to the crosshairs :) On the drift, I'm sure there's a rule that relates the direction of drift to the direction that you should tweak the polar alignment (basically it's drift alignment). Odd to drift left though (unless...

Hi, SharpCap auto-switches the LCG->HCG mode at the gain level where it is first valid to engage HCG. For the IMX410 sensor, that's 500 gain. Other applications do allow a manual LCG/HCG choice, but I feel that there are issues with that approach - for one thing, most users probably don't even under...

Hi, I do have a library already included in SharpCap that should be able to do the calculations. No doubt though it will use different names for the orbital parameters than the data file, so that usually means a good bit of head scratching to get them lined up, then some careful testing to make sure...

Hi, actually, I have another alignment tracking algorithm that might help - currently used in the planetary stacking, but I could bring it to feature tracking. It may well track movements better than the current code. I have it on a todo list :) Since I'm here, I worked out why the feature highlight...

Hi, in theory yes, since I have something similar for the mount movement already, but I don't think there is any obvious space to put them in the focuser UI. I am always reluctant to make the UI for things like focuser/mount bigger, since it's too easy to just add another 20 pixels for this feature ...

Hi, thanks for the log - a first run through it seems to indicate that the mount isn't moving to the position that it's being asked to goto after the sync Info 22:19:00.560001 #1 Field solved to RA=12:33:56.3,Dec=+12:05:53, field Size {Width=0.47526357, Height=0.4753004} Info 22:19:01.561852 #1 Befo...