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The Manual Says:
"A minimum of 3 stars is required for Live Stack with alignment to work. However, for reliability and good alignment a star count of 10-15 or more is to be preferred."

With my small field of view, I at times run into the stacking error message when galaxy hunting in remote areas. My setting box will not allow me to assign a value less than 10.
How do I enter a value less than 10 ??

Celestron 6Se - 6.3 Reducer - Player One Uranus C Camera
Thanks

Hi,

the simple answer is that you don't select less than 10.

The number selected is the maximum number that SharpCap will use - it may use less if fewer than 10 stars are available, in theory working down to 3 stars in some cases.

Once you get below about 10 stars though the reliability may well start to drop off - if a star doesn't get detected in one frame or the position of one comes out incorrectly then that may cause issues with a very small number of stars. When more are available issues with one or two don't matter.

cheers,

Robin