Polar alignment using a qsi?
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:59 pm
I have a question. Today I bought a sharpcap pro license as I was impressed with how the polar alignment procedure should work. But somehow I find a problem, which maybe is inherent to the software, or maybe because I'm just doing something wrong.
I want to use sharpcap to do my polar alignment with my telescope and QSI camera, because soon I will get a new high-grade mount, but which doesn't have the polar scope like my current eq6. My FOV with my setup is about 2 degrees, so that would be perfect.
So I opened sharpcap and connected my QSI583 camera and basically then the story was over. The QSI has a download time for an image of about 10 seconds. So when I open sharpcap it starts in a previewing mode which basically renders the program inaccessible, because it's taking an image and then 10 seconds downloading in which I can't do anything anymore, and it just loops on like that.
Is it possible to turn the previewing mode off? In this way the camera can be ordered to take an image when needed and that would be perfect for example for the polar alignment. If this is not possible it basically makes the program worthless for me, and I would really regret that, because I think it really has such nice possibilities. I hope somebody can help me....
I want to use sharpcap to do my polar alignment with my telescope and QSI camera, because soon I will get a new high-grade mount, but which doesn't have the polar scope like my current eq6. My FOV with my setup is about 2 degrees, so that would be perfect.
So I opened sharpcap and connected my QSI583 camera and basically then the story was over. The QSI has a download time for an image of about 10 seconds. So when I open sharpcap it starts in a previewing mode which basically renders the program inaccessible, because it's taking an image and then 10 seconds downloading in which I can't do anything anymore, and it just loops on like that.
Is it possible to turn the previewing mode off? In this way the camera can be ordered to take an image when needed and that would be perfect for example for the polar alignment. If this is not possible it basically makes the program worthless for me, and I would really regret that, because I think it really has such nice possibilities. I hope somebody can help me....