Guide Scope Alignment tool
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:14 pm
Hello,
I have just started to use SharpCap Pro more regularly and really liked the many useful and unique tools if offers.
In this spirit, I was looking for tool support aligning a guide scope with the main scope.
I have no distant points in sight which I could use during daytime and aligning based on visible stars is difficult for me.
Would it be a reasonable idea to use plate solving for a camera on the guide scope and compare it to the results of plate solving for a camera on the main scope to get a good alignment during night time?
I guess that I could achieve this by starting two instances of SharpCap and connect them to the two cameras but a single tool with friendly arrows pointing in the direction for perfect alignment could be much more handy. Is this something that could be implemented with a script?
If I missed an existing feature or reason why this is not interesting or feasible, please ignore this post.
Many thanks in advance
I have just started to use SharpCap Pro more regularly and really liked the many useful and unique tools if offers.
In this spirit, I was looking for tool support aligning a guide scope with the main scope.
I have no distant points in sight which I could use during daytime and aligning based on visible stars is difficult for me.
Would it be a reasonable idea to use plate solving for a camera on the guide scope and compare it to the results of plate solving for a camera on the main scope to get a good alignment during night time?
I guess that I could achieve this by starting two instances of SharpCap and connect them to the two cameras but a single tool with friendly arrows pointing in the direction for perfect alignment could be much more handy. Is this something that could be implemented with a script?
If I missed an existing feature or reason why this is not interesting or feasible, please ignore this post.
Many thanks in advance