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Hi, if you still need this sorting, please send me details of both the old and new email addresses and I will fix the problem. As Menno says, use the 'Private Message' option here on the forums, or the 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of this page which will let you send the details to me via email. ...

Hi, yes, you can do it with capture profiles (and if you edit the saved profiles in a text editor you can remove all the lines except the ones you need changed, so the profile will then only affect the white balance when loaded). Another approach is to use the sequencer - there is a 'Set <Control Na...

Hi, if there are multiple plate solvers found in the ASPS/Ansvr/Astrotortilla family, then they are used in this order (first one present in this list is used) * One with a path specified manually * Astrotortilla * ASPS * Ansvr * Anything with a 'solve-field' binary located inside c:\cygwin\bin If t...

Hi Steve, I think it is probably just down to what camera you are using and the mode you are running it in. Solar Colorization only appears when using a mono camera (or at the very least a colour camera in a mono mode). Apply threshold only supports 8 bit, so vanishes when you select a high bit dept...

Hi John, good to hear that the font size helped. I have also tweaked things a bit for today's release to try to pretty much get everything in view on a 1280 wide screen. It looks like I made things too wide when I added disk space to the info being shown a month or two back :( You might be able to g...

Hi Richard, good to hear that we got to the bottom of this in the end. If you are going to use a pointing model in future then the recommended setting for plate solving in SharpCap is to 'Offset the mount position to center the target' - that avoids using sync entirely and just issues a new GOTO wit...

That's weird... I haven't changed the default there - in fact I just checked the code and the default save format for still images has been PNG since 2015 (when I first added the default settings). I suppose if something somehow deleted some of your settings then it would go back to default, but I c...

Hi George, glad that you enjoy using SharpCap :) If you are moving your dob manually to targets then you might like to look at the new 'Push To Assistant' feature in SharpCap 4.1. It uses plate solving (via a program like Astap or Astrotortilla) to measure how far you are from your target and guide ...

Hi,

yes, hoping to get the new update out in a few hours - depends if anything new comes up that needs fixing either in today's forum posts or in the weekend's bug reports.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, unfortunately I have no direct experience of using the SynScan Pro app (I use EQMOD for my Skywatcher mount). However the problem you are running into is that the Synscan Pro app wants to control the serial port communication and so does the ASCOM driver, and it can only be one. Maybe the Synsca...