ROI Imaging
Speeds up capture time and download time, results in smaller files and also speeds up processing. As you said, if you know you’re going to crop an image anyway, why collect what you know will be...
View ArticleHelp: SGP refuse to take flats this weekend
I don’t know what information will help, so I will keep my initial post short. This weekend SGP would not take flats, no matter what I tried. My first attempt, using a new equipment profile,...
View ArticleAre there any plans to supoport Wanderer ETA M54
Wanderer ETA is WandererAstro’s Electronic Tilt Adjuster. NINA has support for it. Thanks Steve
View ArticleTurn Off Switches
Description <Insert I don’t want ALPACA or WandererBox switches I want to turn them off or remove them. I have the Wanderer ETA product and SQP has no support for it. Auto starting Wanderer Empire...
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Validating Dynamic Autoflats
Hi Ken, I have been getting some messages about operating the flat box even though I have none. I also got this using v 1546. I had to restart the sequnce. Doesn’t always happen. Log is at:...
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Please help with Platesolve 3 installation?
Where you able to use the help files we made to address this issue? Sequence Generator Pro Setting up PlateSolve3
View ArticlePlatesolve 3 catalog location
To be honest, I don’t know. I can actually reproduce the same here, but the problem is not readily apparent. When a catalog is set, we use a utility literally from PS3 itself to ask “is this catalog...
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When does SGP get mount position?
EricC: I noticed that when I connect the mount to SGP it seems to use the last known mount position (RA and DEC) instead of getting the current position of the mount from the mount. Once the mount...
View ArticleProblem with mosaic wizard
The angles on those tiles are not correct. When aligned properly the 6 tiles should form a rectangle just like in the preview canvas. The mosaic created in your screenshot requires the camera be...
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Help: SGP refuse to take flats this weekend
macdonjh: “Observatory missing”: I’ve never seen this and have no idea what it means. It went away when SGP asked me if I wanted to unpark my scope (I don’t think it was parked) and I clicked the...
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Are there any plans to supoport Wanderer ETA M54
sink45ny: Wanderer ETA is WandererAstro’s Electronic Tilt Adjuster. We’re looking into it. It’s not immediately clear how to control it. We’ll talk with Wanderer about it.
View ArticleTurn Off Switches
I am not really sure how to read this? Does it imply that the ETA is supported via ASCOM switch?
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Validating Dynamic Autoflats
I don’t see any AutoFlats runs in those logs. I don’t really follow what you mean here kentdegroff: I have been getting some messages about operating the flat box even though I have none. I also got...
View ArticlePlease help with Platesolve 3 installation?
No. When I download the Dropbox files all I see are the Kepler and UD Catalog. I do not see the Platesolve3.exe file nor the SRSlib.dll file. I have clicked “see hidden files” and they’re just not...
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Sequence Generator Pro 4.5.0.1550 (BETA) is Released for Test
Sequence Generator Pro 4.5.0.1550 (BETA) (32-bit and 64-bit) is Released for Test Hello! Welcome to the 4.X beta for SGPro. As always, we aim to ensure that even our betas are stable, but please know...
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Please help with Platesolve 3 installation?
That download link doesn’t belong to us and it seems like it has been changed by Planewave. We’ll try and track down the new one(s)
View ArticlePlease help with Platesolve 3 installation?
Okay, so at least it’s not a you or me thing, but a “they” thing. In any case I think I got PS2 working but I haven’t been able to test it yet because as soon as I got everything set up the clouds...
View ArticleWhen does SGP get mount position?
Ken, I was looking at the telescope docking window in SGP, not the Control Panel when I saw that SGP and APCC had drastically different RA and DEC values when I connected to the mount. I also did not...
View ArticleValidating Dynamic Autoflats
SGP would not go beyond the validating message at the bottom so I had to end the task and restart. Kent
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Please help with Platesolve 3 installation?
Hey Ken, I found an alternate download site that has the actual Platesolve program, but not the SRSlib.dll file. But you might be able to work with it somehow. It links to a google drive with the same...
View ArticleHelp: SGP refuse to take flats this weekend
Thank you, Ken. I will double check the sequence which produced the error, but I think I have “no observatory” specified. I don’t have any building automation for SGP to help me with. The behavior you...
View ArticleHelp: SGP refuse to take flats this weekend
Ken, I like your Issue Reporting feature. Thank you for that. I double checked and the Equipment Profile I was using on 8-Nov-2025 has: No Flat Box, No Rotator, No Observatory, No Safety Monitor, No...
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Object Import Sets Start Time
Hi Ken, I’m no longer getting the “Rotate Camera”. Thanks for fixing that. There is, however a bogus start time created after the import (C2A). Regards, Kent
View ArticleValidating Dynamic Autoflats
Hi Ken, Tonight, I got the validating autoflats message and a GNS error message, but it went ok after continuing from the GNS error. Is that dynamic validation of autoflats supposed to happen even if...
View ArticleProblem with mosaic wizard
I used ASTAP to solve, and I’ve always used the nightcrawler to handle rotation, all automated through SGP center and rotate. It’s not had an issue with framing of other targets in other parts of the...
View ArticleValidating Dynamic Autoflats
Later on I got a red box saying there was a flat box error. There is no flat box in the sequence.
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Validating Dynamic Autoflats
Here is the log that has the error message above: dropbox.com Dropbox
View ArticleProblem with mosaic wizard
My sense is that framing and mosaic is not handling the changing dec correctly as it gets closer to the pole and that in turn messes up the rotation of frames. Is there a way to verify this somehow?
View ArticleHelp: SGP refuse to take flats this weekend
I am at my observatory this weekend using my “regular” gear and a sequence I’ve used before. I took sky flats in the afternoon without problem. I guess there must be something wonky in the new...
View ArticleObject Import Sets Start Time
Hi Ken, My problem here, sorry! I see what you’re doing and it’s fine. You’re taking the C2A scheduled start time and putting in “Start at” which is absolutely correct. I don’t think that was working...
View ArticleWhen does SGP get mount position?
Because there is no cache, any value presented is essentially in real time. Without querying directly for a value, there is nothing to display. Note that SGPro will convert JNOW to J2000 before...
View ArticlePlease help with Platesolve 3 installation?
Appreciate it. I’ll verify it and update the links in our help files.
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Validating Dynamic Autoflats
kentdegroff: SGP would not go beyond the validating message at the bottom so I had to end the task and restart. I am wondering if this validating dynamic flats message is a red herring. In other...
View ArticleProblem with mosaic wizard
This is not a curvature issue. I have personally imaged this area of the sky several times with SGPro’s MFW and this is not an issue. This is just a camera rotation issue… the question to answer is:...
View ArticleValidating Dynamic Autoflats
Hi Ken, I can ignore error messages if I understand that they are not harmful. I am always concerned, however, that an error message might signify problems in some other area as well. The autoflats...
View ArticlePlease help with Platesolve 3 installation?
No problem. It still doesn’t work as the required srslib.dll file isn’t in that download. But at least the program is there. The program opens up and you can configure the library, but SGP doesn’t...
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PinPoint: The 60 day trial expired
I’m going crazy to understand where these pop ups come from, I’m not currently a Pinpoint owner, I was more than ten years ago but then I didn’t renew the license. These messages appeared immediately...
View ArticlePinPoint: The 60 day trial expired
solved by cleaning the registry by “Astrometry and PinPoint” search and deleted the \Common files\Ascom\Pinpoint folder.
View ArticleLX200 Classic and ZWO EAF Parameters?
Hello! I’m checking to see if anyone uses a ZWO EAF on a Meade LX200 classic. I’d like feedback on the parameters used in the SGPro autofocus routine. I updated the Robofocus to an EAF. I use SGPro4...
View ArticleReset Numerical Value for EAF Position After Mistakenly Setting it as Zero?
Hello! After focusing, I mistakenly set the EAP focus position as zero. It had been 14000 out of a 60000 range. I know this is silly, and I was fatigued. Is there a way to reassign the numerical value...
View ArticleReset Numerical Value for EAF Position After Mistakenly Setting it as Zero?
The solution (I hope!) was simple. Google searches had lots of comments about editing the “current position” in EAF settings under the focuser tab. However, this was grayed out and could not be...
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Please help with Platesolve 3 installation?
Ah, ya, SGPro doesn’t actually use the EXE file… it relies wholly on the dll file. I’ll see if I can grab it from my machine as ask PlaneWave if it’s OK to provide a download for it. I won’t formally...
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PinPoint: The 60 day trial expired
Ya, if SGPro 4.4 or earlier thinks that Pinpoint is installed, it will load and verify the license. SGPro 4.5 will do the same, but there is a new option to explicitly ignore it (meant for users with...
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PinPoint: The 60 day trial expired
Thanks Ken for your note on this, having v4.4 I used the brutal way I’m curious about using the beta and have a question about, does installing it overwrite 4.4 or does it install a paralel one?
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PinPoint: The 60 day trial expired
Geremia_Forino: I’m curious about using the beta and have a question about, does installing it overwrite 4.4 or does it install a paralel one? It will overwrite if you don’t change the install folder...
View ArticlePinPoint: The 60 day trial expired
ok, I’ll stick with this one until the beta becomes official. thanks again
View ArticlePlease help with Platesolve 3 installation?
Thanks Ken! That seemed to have worked. At least SGP says PS3 is installed without errors this time.
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