Dither without guiding The Sequencer.

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Desbarry
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Dither without guiding The Sequencer.

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Hi Robin, my guiding wasnt working earlier this week (I now know why) so I went into the settings and turned on dither/ no guiding via ASCOM in RA I then went to the guiding tab on the sequencer and turned off PHD2 but selected dither every frame with ascom in ra I think, SO my question is When I ran the sequencer I didn't see in the dialog box it was dithering after every frame ( see attached) The boxes below the PHD2 were selected but not clickable. Was it dithering in RA without PHD2 being selected and it just didnt display this? in the sequencer dialog box?

Thanks Derek
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Re: Dither without guiding The Sequencer.

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Hi Derek,

if I'm understanding you correctly then your guiding selections in the sequence planner looked like this :
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If that's the case then you would not be dithering at all, since you have turned off the top level 'guiding' option, which turns off everything underneath it. I think that the wording here is unclear, which has probably misled you, so I will clarify that for the next update.

The correct approach would be to

1) switch to dither only guiding in the settings
2) leave the 'connect to guiding application' ticked

I just checked and RA only is currently ignored when using the dither only option (it will dither in both directions). I can't see any reason why that should be that way, so I will fix it.

cheers,

Robin
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Re: Dither without guiding The Sequencer.

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Hi Robin. YES I didnt tick "connect to guiding application" as I wasnt using PHD2 as it wasnt working so I thought that Sharpcap would dither in RA only by using the ASCOM cable I was using to drive my mount via the laptop. Thats why I unchecked the top box. Really counter intuitive lol

So if I want to dither in RA but not use PHD2 I still need to tick the top box??
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Hi Derek,

yes, leave the top box ticked, setup the dither only guiding in the settings. I have changed the wording now
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Hopefully that will make more sense.

cheers,

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Re: Dither without guiding The Sequencer.

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Thanks Robin, much appreciated.
Derek
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