Polar alignment failed to plate solve
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:46 am
I polar aligned my mount easily during the week at home with sharpcap, 350mm fl guidescope and ASI178 guidecamera, took all of 2mins to polar align.
Travelled to my dark sky sight and with the exact same equipment sharpcap would not plate solve!!! Screen said it had detected 15 stars but would not solve. Wasted at least 30min with no solution to plate solve , I adjusted exposure and gain, checke3d focus but still no plate solve. Ended up using NINA, which had me polar aligned in 3 min.
Setting up another scope 45min later sharpcap plate solved and had me aligned in 3 min using the exact same setup that failed 30min ago! Focus not change from earlier attempt.
any thoughts welcome
Travelled to my dark sky sight and with the exact same equipment sharpcap would not plate solve!!! Screen said it had detected 15 stars but would not solve. Wasted at least 30min with no solution to plate solve , I adjusted exposure and gain, checke3d focus but still no plate solve. Ended up using NINA, which had me polar aligned in 3 min.
Setting up another scope 45min later sharpcap plate solved and had me aligned in 3 min using the exact same setup that failed 30min ago! Focus not change from earlier attempt.
any thoughts welcome