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Hi Simple issue (I Hope), trying to centre on a dim star I used plate solving with AstroTortila, the result is here
Solution : RA=14:22:12,Dec=07:45:37S
Field of View : 0.85x0.58 degrees
Time : Sat, 08 Jun 2019 21:43:40 GMT
Orientation : up is 4.8 degrees E of N

This was incorrect, this morning I run in native AstroTortilla and discovered that Dec should have been -07:45:375 the sign was dropped.

Best regards
Paul

Oops, yes – I get the same result when I try to solve an image with a negative declination.

I will get a to doubt very quickly for that. Thanks for posting.

Cheers, Robin

Hi,

You had me worried there, but it turns out that everything is working as it should. SharpCap displays declination with a North/South suffix rather than with a plus/minus sign before the value. Unfortunately the S as the suffix is easily confused with the digit 5, which I think is what has happened to you.

Anyway, rest assured that the plates of position was understood correctly by SharpCap.

Cheers, Robin

Thanks Robin