Hi Robin
I have sorted out the FITS header entries and think it will work well - i intend to create an equivalent to the snapshot button which will take a snapshot with the fits header extras taken care of - I'm hoping to use the FX Frame Stack (3) assuming the snapshot will take that stacked image!?!? can you confirm - if not I can work round
My next issue is the WCS data from a plate solve which needs also to be in the FITS header - I can do this in Astroimagej and other software but it would be very convenient to have a one shop solution and include it in the script used above for fits headers.
I see there is a solution already been discussed
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Hi,
There is no direct command to carry out plate solving from the scripting API, but it should be relatively simple to invoke the command line plate solving application in the same way that SharpCap does.
If you run the plate solving from SharpCap by pressing the UI button and then go and look in the log you will see the commandline parameters that are used for the plates solving to give you a starting point. The results of the plate solving procedure can be found in the output of the command line solving tool. Once you have those you should be able to synchronise the mount using this scripting
SharpCap.Mounts.SelectedMount.SyncTo(ra,dec)
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however I see no way to get this WCS data provided by the plate solving into the fits header or am I missing something and is this included in the statement "The results of the plate solving procedure can be found in the output of the command line solving tool."
I imagine a similar approach to the other headers could be taken if I had access to the WCS data
Any thoughts or suggestions on this
many thanks and hope I'm making sense
Keith