Optec rotator and SGP
this installed fine and seems to work OK! however, i don't yet have my head around rotator angles and how SGP/PHD2 handles them. rotation of the calibration vectors does not seem to be working - if i...
View ArticleActual dither size with PHD2?
I'm playing with drizzle and although I know the actual dither is random each time but it would be useful to know what the small to extreme dither size limits do. I know in PHD2 there is a scale...
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Focus temp not showing in module
We had this topic before (I think) but it has been so long ago, I will start anew. I have little doubt that what I am seeing is because I have changed equipment recently but it may not be the full...
View ArticleA good night ruined by Microsoft
Orion SSAG works fine in Windows 10 IF AND ONLY IF you get the latest driver. I was an early adopter to Windows 10 and couldn't run SSAG for a couple of months. I kept downloading drivers every week...
View ArticleA good night ruined by Microsoft
Thanks a lot John: I got an old QHY5m almost identical to the Orion SS autoguider, but I cannot resolve some driver issues with Win 10. Anyway, I use a Lodestar for autoguiding, so I haven't tried a...
View ArticleFocus temp not showing in module
Thought about this a little more and can probably answer my own question: I guess it is the focus controller that reads the output from the environment device and the the focus module reports what the...
View ArticleOptec rotator and SGP
Rob, Glad to hear the driver installs and runs. PHD2 should be handling the rotation and guiding properly after the rotation so we'll need to investigate to see why it is not working for you. Please...
View ArticleOptec rotator and SGP
your steps are exactly what i did. i did a lot last night so it will be hard for me to isolate all the logs. weather permitting i'll start tonight with these steps and send you the log. rob
View ArticleWhy are some frames being written as duplicates and others skipped?
I posted about this issue with my STT camera (or it appears to be the same issue) about a month or so ago. It happens on short exposure, calibration frames in my case. I interpreted it, perhaps...
View ArticleWhy are some frames being written as duplicates and others skipped?
Hi Craig - thanks for the response. Yes, I have the very latest SBIG drivers and SGPro version installed. I did a clean install on a brand new Windows 10 machine just yesterday. You are right this...
View ArticleFilter Change Hang
Some new issues on this problem. I was testing my new ASCOM driver with SGP and I unplugged the filter as SGP was changing filters. SGP crashed hard with an unhandled I/O exception. Here is the...
View Articleplatesolve2 tips?
i just switched out my slowish 1100mm reflector for a 500mm fast refractor... at 1100mm, PS2 was solving everything with no issues with all default settings. however i've had several solve failures...
View ArticleActual dither size with PHD2?
Cheers Andy - I did check the help files first but I didn't find it. I thought it would be a SGP thing so didn't think to look at the PHD forum.
View ArticleWhy are some frames being written as duplicates and others skipped?
Actually looking further at your comment... "In my case, though, occasionally, SGP will eventually tangled up and crash. I was able to duplicate the problem on two different Windows 7 Pro laptops,...
View Articleplatesolve2 tips?
One thing to check is to make sure you changed your camera scale in the Camera tab. Fred
View Articleplatesolve2 tips?
thanks, yeah i should have mentioned that i had already done that. now running at 2.2app. rob
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QHY12 one shot color CCD takes only mono subs
Thank you very much for all the replies. It was very helpful. I was able to process the color subs in DSS and i ve got color results.
View ArticleFilter Change Hang
This is a second issue I have seen several times where SGP dies apparently while displaying an image. The sequence is 4 flat events each with a different filter 50 times on a rotating basis. Here is...
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