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Thanks Robin. I'll do some tests this evening. I wasn't using the guide scope and camera to do the polar alignment, but rather the main imaging scope and camera. Is one preferred over the other?

Mark

Hello Everyone, Last night I used the Polar Alignment tool through my 127mm refractor and .8 focal reducer for a focal length of 762mm, connected to my ASI2600MC Pro camera. I got the alignment to 17 arc-seconds and locked everything down. I then used the Guiding Assistant on PHD2 to analyze my guid...

Thanks Menno! It's good to hear a consistent result from several sources.

Thanks Robin! I found this feature yesterday afternoon (I was still using version 3) and tried it last night on the Rosette nebula. It appears to have done a much better job.

Mark

Hi Robin,

Unfortunately, I didn't keep the individual frames on this session.

Mark

Hi Bryan, my exposure was 5 minutes and gain 150 on an ASI2600MC Pro with an L-Extreme filter.

Mark

Hello Everyone, In last night's live-stacking effort I was using the Sigma Clipping stacking algorithm but a satellite was not rejected in my stack. I've attached a picture showing my settings, which used the first 5 frames to compute the average. I know that the satellite occurred AFTER this becaus...

Thanks Brian. I don't think SharpCap has an option for me to create Dark Flats. How would I do it?

Mark

Thanks Robin! The issue isn't caused by the lack of Darks during the capture of the Lights. I had the proper Dark included during that time. What would cause the second issue "excessive dark/bias correction when capturing the flats". Regarding the noise issue, I captured 20 flats and the g...

What's the best process and settings for capturing flats using the dual-narrowband Optolong L-Extreme filter on a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro color camera? There is so little light allowed through the filter that I have to either brighten my light source significantly and/or use a much longer exposure time. W...