Avoid excessive drift during unguided live stack
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:23 pm
My guide camera went down so I'm trying to use my C8 on EQ6 to shoot in live staking.
It works well with 20s exposure but leaving the scope shooting for some hours bring to a massive drift and a "drifting" final result.
I wrote a very small script to pause the stack and use the plate solve to recenter the object every 10 minutes.
I found no other cleaner way than using an external command (mouseclick.bat is using the NirCmd command) to press by mouse the "Plate Solve and Sync" button provided by SharpCap.
Any advise how making it much clean and less error prone (the Plate solve and Sync has to be in the right screen potion to work)?
Thanks
Pasquale
It works well with 20s exposure but leaving the scope shooting for some hours bring to a massive drift and a "drifting" final result.
I wrote a very small script to pause the stack and use the plate solve to recenter the object every 10 minutes.
I found no other cleaner way than using an external command (mouseclick.bat is using the NirCmd command) to press by mouse the "Plate Solve and Sync" button provided by SharpCap.
Code: Select all
import time
import subprocess
while True:
SharpCap.LiveStacking.Parameters.Pause()
subprocess.call(["mousclick.bat"])
time.sleep(120)
SharpCap.LiveStacking.Parameters.UnPause()
time.sleep(600)
Thanks
Pasquale