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Yes! The added text will be very helpful. Thanks Again for all of your work to make SharpCap such an excellent tool.

Mark

Great, thanks! The reason that I zoom in during polar alignment is that my laptop isn't positioned very close to the mount and the "arrow and box" diagram on the screen is pretty small, so zooming in just lets me see it better.

Mark

Thanks Robin. I had the camera doing 1.5 second exposures at a fairly high gain. If I reduce the gain (to reduce the noise), then I'll have to go to longer exposures, which means I'll have to wait longer after each change of the mount's alt/az dials in order to see the change. Assuming that noise wa...

Tonight I was trying to use the Polar Alignment tool and followed the instructions exactly, and a star was select in the lower right of the window showing how it needed to move in order to complete the alignment. I then zoomed the image so I could see it better when adjusting the knobs and then Shar...

Ah, got it. I'm hoping to get a clear sky tonight and do some additional captures and save each image.

Thanks Again!

Mark

Hello Menno,

Unfortunately I didn't save the individual frames. I'm going to do that when I get another clear night.

Thanks,

Mark

Thanks Robin. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. If the mount had shifted as you indicated, wouldn't the curved lines be wider than they are to be more like the diameter of the stars?

Mark

See the attached photo.....this is the resulting stack of 30 frames at 2 minutes each. Note that the brighter stars have curved lines emanating from the top and bottom. My setup was an Explore Scientific 127ED refractor with .8 focal reducer/flattener and Optolong L-Pro filter and a ZWO ASI2600MC pr...

I just found an issue with installing All Sky Plate Solver that could be beneficial to others. On my PC I have a separate ADMIN account with full privileges to install software. It is only used to do software installations and administrative tasks. Otherwise I have a User account that I use all the ...

Thanks Robin!