Stars Not Detected & Bit Depth
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:05 am
Good day.
I have purchased the one year licence of sharpcap in roughly October last year. Since this time I have had very few clear nights but have had no success in using the Polar alignment feature.
I am in the Southern Hemisphere so do not have a pole star to work with. My issues is that I see stars very faintly moving on the screen but Sharpcap cannot lock onto those stars. It would rather lock onto the noise as opposed to the stars that are moving by. I have tried increasing gain as well as reducing the noise for it to pick up stars with no luck.
On my last clear night, it came up with a message stating that I need to try to increase my bit depth in order to increase the number of stars that is detected. I have no clue where the bit depth function is even after searching for it.
Is there any other info that I could use to help me with the Polar Align feature.
Side note: I am using a CPC800 on a wedge. I have successfully aligned with PHD2 but would rather use this as I've heard more success stories and been told it was faster to align with.
Clear Skies.
Amith Rajpal
I have purchased the one year licence of sharpcap in roughly October last year. Since this time I have had very few clear nights but have had no success in using the Polar alignment feature.
I am in the Southern Hemisphere so do not have a pole star to work with. My issues is that I see stars very faintly moving on the screen but Sharpcap cannot lock onto those stars. It would rather lock onto the noise as opposed to the stars that are moving by. I have tried increasing gain as well as reducing the noise for it to pick up stars with no luck.
On my last clear night, it came up with a message stating that I need to try to increase my bit depth in order to increase the number of stars that is detected. I have no clue where the bit depth function is even after searching for it.
Is there any other info that I could use to help me with the Polar Align feature.
Side note: I am using a CPC800 on a wedge. I have successfully aligned with PHD2 but would rather use this as I've heard more success stories and been told it was faster to align with.
Clear Skies.
Amith Rajpal