Hi Carl-Christian,
I haven't tried it with plate solving - in fact your question prompted me to look it up in the Sharpcap documentation which led me to
http://www.astrogb.com/astrogb/All_Sky_ ... olver.html. This looks VERY useful - thanks for that tip.
I haven't been able to play much lately with my new camera or the mount or Sharpcap due to the weather. I have noticed though that if I move the mount with the Sharpcap scope control buttons and then stop, the mount does not stay there, instead it drifts back to where it was pointing before I moved it.
Robin, there is reason to doubt that you can do SyncToAltaz. I've been playing with a program to also work with the mount. Here is the information the Minitower ASCOM driver reports to my program during a debugging session (note that CanSyncAltAz: False):
'{ASCOM.DriverAccess.Telescope}
' AlignmentMode: algAltAz {0}
' Altitude: 68.711111111111109
' ApertureArea: 1
' ApertureDiameter: 1
' AtHome: False
' AtPark: False
' Azimuth: 137.72416666666666
' CanFindHome: False
' CanPark: False
' CanPulseGuide: False
' CanSetDeclinationRate: False
' CanSetGuideRates: False
' CanSetPark: False
' CanSetPierSide: False
' CanSetRightAscensionRate: False
' CanSetTracking: True
' CanSlew: True
' CanSlewAltAz: False
' CanSlewAltAzAsync: False
' CanSlewAsync: True
' CanSync: True
' CanSyncAltAz: False
' CanUnpark: False
' Connected: True
' Declination: 19.43
' DeclinationRate: 0
' Description: "iOptron ASCOM Driver for 2013 and Earlier Mounts"
' DoesRefraction: False
' DriverInfo: "iOptron ASCOM Driver for 2013 and Earlier Mounts V3.11"
' DriverVersion: "3.11"
' EquatorialSystem: equLocalTopocentric {1}
' FocalLength: 1
' GuideRateDeclination: 'objtelescope.GuideRateDeclination' threw an exception of type 'ASCOM.NotImplementedException'
'GuideRateRightAscension: 'objtelescope.GuideRateRightAscension' threw an exception of type 'ASCOM.NotImplementedException'
'InterfaceVersion: 3
' IsPulseGuiding: 'objtelescope.IsPulseGuiding' threw an exception of type 'ASCOM.NotImplementedException'
'Name: "iOptron ASCOM Driver for 2013 and Earlier Mounts"
' RightAscension: 8.34088888888889
' RightAscensionRate: 0
' SideOfPier: 'objtelescope.SideOfPier' threw an exception of type 'ASCOM.NotImplementedException'
'SiderealTime: 7.3412111376412215
' SiteElevation: 0
' SiteLatitude: 36.145833333333336
' SiteLongitude: -80.3155555555556
' SlewSettleTime: 0
' Slewing: False
' SupportedActions: Count = 0
On another subject, the newer iOptron ASCOM Driver for 2013 and Earlier Mounts has the nice feature that multiple programs can talk to it at the same time without the need for the ASCOM hub. I have it cheerfully talking simultaneously to two planetarium programs in addition to Sharpcap and my program.
Regards,
Howard