How to get guidescope focus with Sharpcap
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hotrodder19
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How to get guidescope focus with Sharpcap
Can anyone advise how to use sharpcap to get my guidescope focused, Thanking you.
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Re: How to get guidescope focus with Sharpcap
Hi,
personally I would set an exposure of about 2s, a high gain, use the display stretch (https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.1/#Display%20Stretch) to brighten the image. That way if you have any sort of reasonably bright star in view it should show as a bright disc. Once you have that you just adjust the focus to shrink the disc down to a point.
cheers,
Robin
personally I would set an exposure of about 2s, a high gain, use the display stretch (https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.1/#Display%20Stretch) to brighten the image. That way if you have any sort of reasonably bright star in view it should show as a bright disc. Once you have that you just adjust the focus to shrink the disc down to a point.
cheers,
Robin