Newbie-Plate Solving Problem ASTAP
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 4:24 am
Trying to see if I can try out plate solving at home before I spend two hours traveling out to my semi-dark site using my Atik Infinity camera.
I can successfully control my Evolution mount with CPWI via SharpCap, and would like to see if plate solving works.
To that end, have selected as camera the deepsky camera simulator, which brings up the Orion nebula and neighborhood.
When I click on TOOLS, then PLATESOLVE (Yes, I know it won't move or center the mount),Astap pops up, program runs for about a minute, I get a "No Stars Found" error. Tried fiddling with the gain, no help.
Do I need to do a Capture or some other action for it to do the plate solve, or does it not work with the simulated camera?
Does the mount need to be connected for the TOOLS platesolving to work? I connected my mount last night, fake aligned it so it thought it was pointing at Rigel on CPWI, tried the synch and center plate solve, and SharpCap still said no stars.
If no mount is hooked up, does it perform a blind solve, or does it need the mount connected to know where to begin its search?
Thanks,
Robert
I can successfully control my Evolution mount with CPWI via SharpCap, and would like to see if plate solving works.
To that end, have selected as camera the deepsky camera simulator, which brings up the Orion nebula and neighborhood.
When I click on TOOLS, then PLATESOLVE (Yes, I know it won't move or center the mount),Astap pops up, program runs for about a minute, I get a "No Stars Found" error. Tried fiddling with the gain, no help.
Do I need to do a Capture or some other action for it to do the plate solve, or does it not work with the simulated camera?
Does the mount need to be connected for the TOOLS platesolving to work? I connected my mount last night, fake aligned it so it thought it was pointing at Rigel on CPWI, tried the synch and center plate solve, and SharpCap still said no stars.
If no mount is hooked up, does it perform a blind solve, or does it need the mount connected to know where to begin its search?
Thanks,
Robert