Live Mode or Still Mode when Plate Solving?
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:59 pm
Hi,
I'm still helping a friend to get plate solving working, by assiting remotely over TeamViewer. I'm gradually getting it working with an Atik CCD camera, but I'm not sure that I'm going about it correctly. Tonight I got it working with Live Mode for a few bright targets, but I don't see anyway to increase the exposure duration when trying to solve for a faint target. I've tried Still Mode, but when I hit the 'start capture' button it doesn't recognise the longer exposure that I set in the camera dialogue box, or also can't see where it saves those Still Mode images, or doesn't it save them; they certainly didn't appear in the default capture folder that SharpCao created on the desktop. I've been getting insufficient stars warnings for some solves, so I've experimented with changing the Sigma value, with some success, but I really just want to take a longer exposure when solving a faint target, say 5 secs at Bin 2x2, but I can't work out how to do that. What am I doing wrong please?
Regards,
Geof
I'm still helping a friend to get plate solving working, by assiting remotely over TeamViewer. I'm gradually getting it working with an Atik CCD camera, but I'm not sure that I'm going about it correctly. Tonight I got it working with Live Mode for a few bright targets, but I don't see anyway to increase the exposure duration when trying to solve for a faint target. I've tried Still Mode, but when I hit the 'start capture' button it doesn't recognise the longer exposure that I set in the camera dialogue box, or also can't see where it saves those Still Mode images, or doesn't it save them; they certainly didn't appear in the default capture folder that SharpCao created on the desktop. I've been getting insufficient stars warnings for some solves, so I've experimented with changing the Sigma value, with some success, but I really just want to take a longer exposure when solving a faint target, say 5 secs at Bin 2x2, but I can't work out how to do that. What am I doing wrong please?
Regards,
Geof