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Hi,
My setup is an az GTi connected via the hand controller to my laptop in EQASCOM (EQMOD) I use stellarium plus to slew the telescope and find targets, and my plate solver is ASTAP. Sharpcap is successfully able to plate solve and resync, but the target is never on point. I've tried reinstalling and trying sharpcap's built in plate solver but there's still the same problem. If anyone has any possible solutions that would be great thank you!

Hi,

the thing that comes to mind first is that somewhere in the EQMOD settings there is an option where you can make the 'Sync' command be treated as adding a recorded point to the pointing model, rather than a 'set the mount to these known co-ordinates'. If you are using that option then the default mode for SharpCap's plate solve and recenter will not work properly.

You can either turn the option off if it is on, or use the alternative mode in the SharpCap plate solving settings - select the 'Offset the mount position to center the target' option for the 'After solving ...' option.

cheers,

Robin