star measurement

[Tiago Ferreira]

Is it possible on sharpcap to do a star measurement so if that star changes brightness a lot, we can notice?
Like a Nova event for instance.
We get the same measure every night until one night it increase by the event.
I tried different options on sharpcsp without success.

[admin]

Hi,

there is an experimental 'stellar photometry' feature which will add an overlay giving details like the number of photons in the frame from a particular star. At the moment, all you get is the on-image readout of the data, and there is no way to pick the stars beyond using the selection box to narrow down the ones that SharpCap will consider. I am working on some improvements to this that will track individual stars from frame-to-frame even if the image drifts slightly (like live stacking does), but that will take some time to be ready.

cheers,

Robin