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I have a QHY miniGuidescope for the Star Adventurer. You can buy it with or without the camera if you want to get one with a different sensor and/or colour. I have both a mono and colour. Both are fine. Colour is handy if you plan to get a telescope and want to do planetary imaging in the future. I ...

Kia Ora from across the ditch. I use a QHY5L with a 25mm C-mount lens which is the same as the Polemaster (which you may have heard of). I use this to polar align my Star Adventurer and larger mounts/telescopes. I mount the camera/lens on the Star Adventurer and then point it south(ish) which is hal...

I use a QHY5L (same sensor size) with a 25mm lens which is the same as the Polemaster. Being in the southern hemisphere, we are pointing it into a big dark void so the wide field of view helps a lot. At a dark site, SharpCap solves almost straight away.

Steve.

I'm pretty sure that you can do what the OP is trying to achieve already by using the ASCOM simulated telescope. With Carte du Ciel, you'd tell the simulated telescope to go to say, M42 by putting a (red) finderscope at the location and telling it to slew there. Manually point your scope to the same...

Robin,
I don't have my laptop with me to check versions etc, but I had the same trouble (worked manually but not on auto) with my QHY174 the other night. I know we have the same model so you might want to try your camera just to check.

Steve.

Would AstroFlashTimer (https://sites.google.com/site/astroflashtimer/home) be of any use to you ? It's intended for occultations and has been tested against the IOTA VTI.

Steve.

Did command line camera selection make it into 3.2 ?
Is there a historical change log that I could have searched before asking ?

Steve.

Can I have two QHY5Lii (either one M and one C or two of the same type) cameras attached and appear as distinct items in SharpCap ?

Steve.

I was going to ask if you'd connected the antenna as that would be the response if you hadn't.
Then I remembered that the antenna module that came with my camera wasn't very reliable. I already had another one which I swapped in and it hasn't missed a beat since then.

Steve.

Yes. That seems to work now. Thanks.

I dropped a North pole shot into the polar align function and it solved straight away so Nick might be in luck. I didn't have as much luck with a South pole shot but I wouldn't read anything into that yet. I need to play with it some more.

Steve.