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The use of the letter S/N is very rare. Well used programs like EQMOD don't use it. Simbad, Wikipedia dont' use it either. I think it originates from written journals to prevent copy errors in case the document get dirty or has poor printing quality.

I would vote to change it.

Han

Robin,

Looks good. The two outstanding issues, decimal separator and 16 bit png exchange format are all solved!

Han

Found the problem. It's the letter S for south. Sorry

Cheers, Han

Hello Robin,

Just started the new version in simulation. Noted a missing minus sign in the declination.

Ascom Simulator for . NET: -47.57
SharpCap : 47.57

Regards, Han

Hello Robin,

Just curious, when can we expect a new SharpCap version?

Cheers, Han

Hello Robin, Yes setting the regional separator from comma to dot in Windows fixes the problem. Don't expect any comma in the attached .ini and .wcs files. The FITS standard specifies always a dot decimal separator and since .wcs is a FITS header, I follow the FITS standard. Astrometry.net does the ...

This morning during daytime I had some time to play with Sharpcap connected to my ASI1600. The image to solve "frame.png" is unfortunately a 3x8 bit per pixel PNG file. So the 16 bit images from the 12 bit camera are finally reduced to 8 bit/ pixel. This will reduce the rate of success for...

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