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What mount do you have? I used to own a Celestron CG5 and now have a Celestron AVX equatorial mount. These mounts have a facility called All Star Polar Align (ASPA). I have used this to good effect. ASPA works by allowing the user to select any star in the sky and use that in combination with the A...

I have had trouble with Astrometry. I can clearly see the object, but for some reason it does annotate them.

I wonder if there are other sites like Astrometry. The reason I ask is because Astrometery have Messier, NGC, IC, and Abell, but not UGC, MCG, PGC, CGCG, etc.

I did some video astronomy with a near Full Moon. I was able to live stack with no problems. Fiddling around with the curves and color balance helps a lot. Also, if you go black and white and use a deep red filter, it cuts through the light pollution.

I had a similar problem. I lower the frame rate. That helps for me.

That is a cool feature.

Good to hear you have it working but a shame it took such extreme measures. We did (I think) look at the content of your copy of that file some time back and it seemed to have the correct content. I still suspect that something was blocking access to the file, but it was not obvious quite what. che...

I did some starwatching last night. I was able to use live stack with no problems in star rich areas of Cassiopeia and Cygnus. I tried live stacking on NGC 253, M33, Helix Nebula, and Abell 262 and it did not stack. There were stars clearly visible. Some are closer to the horizon and the seeing was ...

I had to re-install Windows 10 and now SharpCap works again.

Probably the machine.config file was corrupted.

Windows 10 did a update and the problem is back again even with the second account I created. I created a third account in Windows 10. It worked once and now SharpCap does not run. It is the same error message. SharpCap.exe-Configuration Parser Error Error Parsing C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\...

Hi, All else being equal the Moon just raises the level of sky brightness which puts a limit on the amount of nebulosity that you can see. In other words you will only be able to see the brighter parts of the nebula, not those faint wisps when the Moon is set. The nebulae that you listed are fairly...