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tamekich
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Plate soolve by Sharpcap to

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My telescope system is not an GOTO-equatorial mount.
I use the scale to move the coordinate difference between the results of plate solve by Sharpcap and target.
To take things a little further, I tried to reflect the results of plate solve by Sharpcap in Stellarium.
It works up to plate solve, but an error occurs when it is reflected in Stellarium.
I have attached the error message Sharpcap and the settings screens for each software.Image
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Re: Plate soolve by Sharpcap to

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Hi,

unfortunately it looks like the screenshots showing the error didn't get attached properly - it's probably best to have another go at uploading those so we can see the error message and hopefully advise on what the underlying problem might be.

thanks,

Robin
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Re: Plate soolve by Sharpcap to Stellarium

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sorry. I accidentally uploaded it while I was entering it.

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I tried again last night, same result:
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It was successful the first time, but the next day, when I tried to check the procedure, I couldn't do it.
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Re: Plate soolve by Sharpcap to

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Hi,

thanks for getting the screenshots working :) Fortunately it makes it fairly easy to tell what the problem is.

You are using the 'Telescope Simulator' mount, and that will not accept SharpCap sending a new set of RA/Dec co-ordinates to it via the 'Sync' command because it is not in tracking mode. This makes sense, because it is trying to simulate a real GOTO equatorial mount, which only has a consistent set of RA/Dec co-ordinates when it is tracking at sidereal speed.

The fix is simple - before trying to do the plate solving, press the 'Tracking' button in SharpCap - that will put the mount into sidereal tracking mode (the picture to the right of the tracking button will change from a '?' to a star to indicate the tracking is at the sidereal rate). Once this is done, you should be able to use the plate solving without any error.

Hope this helps,

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Thank you Robin.

I'll try your method tonight if it's sunny.
I will report the results later.

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Thank you Robin.

I checked this tonight and the problem is completely resolved.
Thanks so much.
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