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Hello
Stepping over from nina to sharcap. This is a little hard.
I need a sequence to make lightcurves in AstroImageJ.
So every image auto substract darks and flats. The sequnce has to run the whole night.
I want an automatic sequence that:

1: Unpark mount
2: Change filter
3: Autofocus
4: Slew to target and center (platesolve and center)
5: Start guiding (PHD2)
6: Take 60 pictures of 20 sec.
then GOTO 1 and start over.

I cant find a youtube video about how to do this, does anyone has a link?

Thanks

Hi,

not sure if there are any videos on that sort of procedure, but the SharpCap 'advanced sequence editor' is designed with the idea that you can just 'play about' in it and try things out while you learn how to use it...

If you type in some text for what you are aiming to do in the 'Search Available Steps' box then it will narrow down the long list of steps below to the ones matching your search text - here searching for 'unpark'. Once you have found a step that seems to do what you want, drag it to the middle area to start building your sequence. You can also re-order in the middle area by dragging the blocks around.
On the right, you will see a 'Test Step' button - that's really handy as it just runs the one step that you currently have highlighted in the middle area - great for checking that something does what it is supposed to do, or for adjusting settings.

You should find steps to do what you want fairly quickly - best to build up with a simple one target sequencer first and get that working before trying to move to multiple targets. One small 'gotcha' is that you need to tell the sequence to connect to PHD2 at the start, before trying to start guiding - look for the 'Monitor Guiding application' step to connect and 'Start guiding if necessary' to get PHD2 going.

cheers,

Robin