What is SGP monitoring to "Settle at < x.x pixels"?
Hmm, well I couldn't get it to stop settling before it started a frame even when the dithering checkbox was unchecked in the control panel. Anyway, if my PA proves to be too inaccurate for a 2.5 pixel...
View ArticleStrange Image Download Failure Behavior
Thanks, all, for the comments here. It does appear it was a USB cable issue...traded out the USB and the problems went away! WOOT! @Kit, good to know about the temp not being reported in SGP. That was...
View ArticleWhat is SGP monitoring to "Settle at < x.x pixels"?
Yes, I know. That is very strange to me. And yes, an inelegant but simplesolution is to just guide with PHD outside of SGP altogether. I was reponding to the earlier comment about the profile setting...
View ArticleCan you turn off analyzing star data while taking flats
When doing flats, after the image is taken, it says on the bottom of the screen "analyzing star data", then it downloads the image on the preview screen. Since I'm using a light box, there would be no...
View ArticleSGP and Pulsar Dome
Just to update you all, after a firmware update everything works now as it should and I can get some sleep at night!
View ArticleSGP and Pulsar Dome
Thanks for letting us know. As a general point, it's almost always worth keeping the driver developer or manufacturer in the loop when you have a problem involving their kit. If they don't know about...
View ArticlePausing PHD when taking flats
Hi there, I have noticed that when I have a sequence which has a bunch of lights followed by a bunch of flats using a flip-flat, SGP does not pause PHD and this causes PHD to constantly report that...
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Nothing but problems!
Here's a focus curve from last night: GoodFocusCurve.png519x635 53.9 KB
View ArticleNothing but problems!
The above was taken with EdgeHD11 viewing a field of stars in the milky way at 2s exposures with C filter. The seeing was very good so the curve is well defined and goes down into the low 1" fwhm...
View ArticleCan you turn off analyzing star data while taking flats
Mike,What equipment are you using (camera? USB hub? what computer?)To be honest I'm not exactly sure what "analyzing star data" actually means. It does seem like that's a long time to take flats,...
View ArticleCan you turn off analyzing star data while taking flats
Sgp will only run actual star analysis on frame types of "light". Other metrics are gathered on all frame types, like min and max intensity as well as creating the histogram. All those things fall...
View ArticleMy M13 is Wednesday's APOD!
Thanks everybody! It was a very nice surprise. I'm going to back to M13 in the spring and put a LOT more time on it. There is more halo to capture yet, and I'd like more core data too. Dean
View ArticleCan you change C to F temp in Open weathermap?
At the moment we only support Celsius. The astronomical and scientific standards seem to favor Metric units though, so it's unlikely this will change. Thanks,Jared
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Mosaic centering will fail after meridian flip
mads0100: Or, use the trick Jared uses (used?) on his G11 with the string and weights. Still use it (when I use the mount that is :-/ ) had to make a shorter cable for the obs. Some pics in this...
View ArticleSequence aborted while capturing darks
Looks like the camera disconnected. I'm not sure what version of SGP you're using. But make sure you're using the latest version of SGP as it does address some issues similar to this. Thanks,Jared
View ArticleIncrease maximum dither settling error
Yes, this needs to be addressed and yes it is because PHD1 would report a max dither of 2.5 (any error >= 2.6 pixels was reported as 2.6 pixels). I'll add this into the 2.5.2 feature requests...
View ArticleCan you turn off analyzing star data while taking flats
Using QSI 683wsg-8, powered USB hub, computer is I7-6700 3.4 gh, 32 gb memory. I does seem that the analysis goes pretty quickly, maybe up to 10 seconds at the most, before the image is displayed....
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Pausing PHD when taking flats
Manoj_Koushik: If using a flip flat shouldn't SGP pause PHD while taking flats and them resume once the flip flat is open again? No, we don't really know what your guiding setup is, and you could be...
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Nothing but problems!
ncwolfie: The stepper is hooked directly to the stock focuser knob. I do not seem to have backlash but honestly I have not been able to use it much since installing it. You might not have backlash,...
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