Hi,
At step 3 in SharpCap 2.9 I could never put the star exactly in the circle.
Sometimes the alignment error was down to 20" and that was the best I could do. The Next button remained greyed out however. My azimuth and altitude controls are not accurate enough. The 2 lines were very very close and every time I tried to come closer I would go too far.
Maybe the circle is not a bit bigger to accommodate the lack of accuracy in the mount controls.
I was surprised I could not enter my lat and long data in the software because I read somewhere it was necessary for PA. Is that normal?
What can I do? Thank you for your help and this great program!
Cheers
My azimuth and altitude knobs are not accurate enough
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Re: My azimuth and altitude knobs are not accurate enough
Actually, the answer here is not to worry - any alignment closer than 2 minutes of arc is probably good enough. One minute of arc is considered excellent.
The next button on the last page never goes green in 2.9 - I've improved that for 2.10 with some UI to tell you that your alignment is 'poor', 'fair', 'good' or 'excellent' to give you a better idea of when to stop adjusting! I must make sure that the Next button isn't shown on the last stage though as that is misleading!
cheers,
Robin
The next button on the last page never goes green in 2.9 - I've improved that for 2.10 with some UI to tell you that your alignment is 'poor', 'fair', 'good' or 'excellent' to give you a better idea of when to stop adjusting! I must make sure that the Next button isn't shown on the last stage though as that is misleading!
cheers,
Robin