How to get guidescope focus with Sharpcap
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:57 pm
Can anyone advise how to use sharpcap to get my guidescope focused, Thanking you.
Hi,
personally I would set an exposure of about 2s, a high gain, use the display stretch (https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.1/#Display%20Stretch) to brighten the image. That way if you have any sort of reasonably bright star in view it should show as a bright disc. Once you have that you just adjust the focus to shrink the disc down to a point.
cheers,
Robin