Disabling 'guiding required'

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cwm2col
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Disabling 'guiding required'

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I have a mount that does not need guiding to track exposures. I use guiding for dithering mostly. I not have sessions that result in 4 subs out of 60 when sharpcap cancels the session because of clouds that eventually move on. I do not want to use pulse guiding only (the option without guiding that live stack can use for example).
Is there a way to allow guiding when it is available and let the sequence run to completion or extending the duration when sharpcap calls it a night?
PhD2 I assume can regain guiding after a loner period of time?
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Re: Disabling 'guiding required'

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Post by admin »

Hi,

I can't think of a way to do that - you can set up the capture steps not to require guiding if you want, but the dithering operations will probably either fail the sequence or try to restart guiding (potentially waiting for ever) when they need to happen.

If you can find a way to send a command to PHD via a batch file or command prompt command, then maybe this will work

Code: Select all

SEQUENCE
    PERIODIC DitherIfYouCan EVERY 180
        RUN MyDitherBatchFile.bat WITH PARAMS "" WAIT True
    END PERIODIC
END SEQUENCE
Basically the batch file would get run between frames every 180s, sending a command to PHD2 to dither.

cheers,

Robin
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