Trouble finding Stars during Frame Alignment
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 6:48 pm
I am new to EAA and live stacking with SharpCap Pro. Last night I went out and was observing M42 the Orion Nebula and did about a 5 minute total exposure and only dropped a few frames. The Logs showed that it found at least three stars for frame alignment
I then decided to observe and stack the bright star Sirius. I was not able to find enough stars to perform a frame alignment so I turned off the alignment frames box to get an image. I could see plenty of other stars around Sirius so why did SharpCap Pro not find at least three stars? It worked fine when I was observing and stacking Orion.
I am sure there is just some kind of setting that I need to change. i played around with a few of the options for star magnitude, sizes etc. but could not get it to work.
Any input would be appreciated for this new user in EAA.
I then decided to observe and stack the bright star Sirius. I was not able to find enough stars to perform a frame alignment so I turned off the alignment frames box to get an image. I could see plenty of other stars around Sirius so why did SharpCap Pro not find at least three stars? It worked fine when I was observing and stacking Orion.
I am sure there is just some kind of setting that I need to change. i played around with a few of the options for star magnitude, sizes etc. but could not get it to work.
Any input would be appreciated for this new user in EAA.