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Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:43 pm
by donboy
A bunch of us went thru all the settings and never saw anything different or added.
Something I'm over looking or it just ain't happening.
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 6:59 am
by admin
Hi Don,
you are looking for this button in the mount control area
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but I am guessing that the mount controls are not showing up at all for you. I have already written some extra logging to try to work out why which will be in the next version.
cheers,
Robin
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 6:49 am
by donboy
Finally got plate solving to work but it puts the object in the upper right of the preview screen. It appears that SC is using Epoch J2000 and my hand controller uses JNOW. AstroTortilla is setup with JNOW but it makes no difference. Is there away to make the SC use JNOW?
Don
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 8:16 pm
by admin
Ah, interesting! The part of AstroTortilla that SharpCap uses doesn't have any options for J2000/JNOW, so it looks like I am bypassing the part that allows for that option. I will have to add conversion inside SharpCap itself (and an option to turn it on) - I will put it on the todo list.
cheers,
Robin
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:57 am
by donboy
Well Robin did you put an option for the Epoch with this latest version and if so where do I select it?
Regards,
Don
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 6:05 am
by admin
Hi Don,
that will be a 3.1 improvement, not something that goes into a new build of 3.0
cheers,
Robin
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:11 pm
by donboy
I guess I'm getting anxious to use the Plate Solve feature. Any idea when 3.1 will be available with the Epoch selection option?
Don
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:56 pm
by admin
Hi Don,
I haven't forgotten this one, but I have been away two weeks out of the last three, so progress has been slow recently...
cheers,
Robin
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 7:43 pm
by donboy
Thanks Robin, hope your two weeks away was on holiday.
Don
Re: Ioptron StarFI / Plate Solving
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:55 pm
by admin
Hi Don,
yes, a week away in the Scilly Isles and then another in Wales
I have just sorted out the J2000->JNow conversion provided the ASCOM mount correctly reports the epoch it is using. Basically SharpCap gets a J2000 position from the plate solving, then asks the mount what epoch it is using - if the mount reports JNow then SharpCap converts the J2000 position to JNow, otherwise it proceeds as before.
Hopefully most mounts will report correctly otherwise it will need a config option to allow the user to force the conversion and that is messy because it doesn't 'just work'.
cheers,
Robin