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I mostly use my telescope for terrestrial viewing, as I live somewhere surrounded by mountains, and there are plenty of interesting animals, climbers etc. to look at.

Obviously the seeing can be variable, particularly later in the day, so I would like to try a lucky image approach to live viewing or capturing photos. Ideally I would like to be able to attach a camera to the telescope, and have it continuously record images (many times per second as there's typically plenty of light) and then have software select the sharpest image taken in the last x seconds to display live on a screen. I don't think I want to do stacking, as the subject might be moving, just a rolling selection and display of the sharpest available image.

Is that something SharpCap could do? Or something I could potentially achieve with scripting?

Thanks!

Hi,

check out the 'Seeing Monitor' functionality - https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.0/#!2!Seeing%20Monitor.

It's really designed for solar imaging, but it basically can be configured to only save the best (highest contrast) frames to file if you use the 'Seeing Filtered Capture' mode, which sounds quite close to what you are looking for.

cheers,

Robin