Automatic slew for Polar Alignment

[NorthernLight]

Hi All,

I'm new to Sharcap Pro and currently just use it for Polar Alignment and wondering if Sharcap will release it a feature to automatically slew the mount in RA 90 degrees instead of having to do it manually. Having a Harming mount, having to switch to another application just to slew the RA is a bit annoying.

Cheers,
Rich

[admin]

Hi Rich,

recent versions of SharpCap 4.1 have buttons to allow you to do this from the polar alignment tool... You press and hold the buttons and that will rotate the mount at a fairly high movement rate while the button is being held down.

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I think this should be OK for you.

cheers,

Robin

[NorthernLight]

Thanks Robin, after a bit of playing i found that i could rotate it, but i wondered if there was a way to rotate it automatically without having to hold the button. i noticed i could set a target option, but i could not get the goto bit to work.

[admin]

Hi,

no, there isn't really a way to do that with a 'one click' action. I did consider buttons with perhaps "+30" "+60" and "+90" (and the minus versions) for rotations, but that design really didn't work in the available space and it would also be easy to send a command that tried to put the scope into a problem position (scope down, weights up, possibly a collision). With the 'press and hold' I felt there was less risk as people would watch the movement and there is no confusion about what to do to stop the movement (just let go of the button) if it seems to be going too far.

cheers,

Robin