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It already has it ... sort of :) I always use the Circle Reticule for that. There is no active indication of how good or bad the collimation is, but you can adjust the circles radius (drag with right mouse button pressed) to divide it fitting the de-focused star. See this screenshot. The red lines a...

Thanks Robin and Dave!

Robin: that is my own fault I see now. Too much stretching. Somehow missed that completely

Menno

Hi all After 5 months of doing nothing (clouds and personal circumstances), I decided to capture ARP 299 again. It's nice and high now plus I still had all the data from 2021. See my posting from 2021 with info and details about the object. The original calibration files were lost though :( so had t...

Hello and welcome

Which version of SharpCap are you using?
Also, could you describe what is happening?

Menno

can someone send me a private message regarding how to post a question on this forum? I just joined and frankly, can not find a way to post a new question. I am having a problem with SharpCap just downloaded. There is no view of my target in the live view, or quick capture. I am desperate to get he...

Hi Tim As I understand it, these MHO objects mentioned in that article are only (or mostly) showing in NIR. They knew about HH objects in visual and Ha but they discovered HH objects in NIR that were surrounded by dust. That is at least what I understand from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbig%E2%...

Hello and welcome

You mention you use SharpCap 4.0.9538.0. There is a new version now (4.1) where a lot of things have changed and updated.
Could you try and install the latest version and see if that fixes your problem?
It can be found on https://www.sharpcap.co.uk/sharpcap/downloads

Menno

HI Ray

You can find previous 4.0 versions here: https://www.sharpcap.co.uk/sharpcap/sha ... -downloads

Menno

The backfous distance is something else than focus. It's the distance between scope/lens and the camera sensor where best overall focus can be reached (please someone correct me if I describe it wrong/weird :) ). So, your lens can be too far or too close to the camera sensor but the Bathinov can sti...

I don't know if this is possible with this kind of lens, but it looks like a back focus issue?
The way you describe it, it looks like the lens is a bit too close to the camera sensor.

Menno