Auto equipment disconnect
No option to auto disconnect everything. I'll add this into the 2.5.2.X feature requests. Thanks,Jared
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Accepted feature requests that will eventually make their way into the 2.5.2 beta. Thanks,Jared
View ArticlePausing PHD when taking flats
You are right Jared. There is no way to know whether it's OAG vs. a separate guidescope etc. And in fact I do have other targets after the flats event. I guess it's not super critical. But a pre-event...
View ArticleTaking darks won't keep shutter closed
I'm starting here with this since it's the software I use to capture darks. I haven't made any in several months but need to make some of a different duration. When I try to take them, the shutter on...
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
Is there any way at all around the following...... it is driving me mad and has so far cost me many hours of data ..... Imagine the scenario... all is clear and everything is working, a sequence is...
View ArticleTaking darks won't keep shutter closed
You will need to enable logging in the camera driver and collect a camera log file. This should show if the camera driver is getting a StartExposure command with the exposure type set to dark or not....
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
Oh, I understand know why I have some frames moved, displaced in relation to the correct position. I have not mesured it but it's approx. 10min. I thought it was a bad plate solve... But it's what you...
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
I know my issue is passing clouds as I can time the frames with the capture time ony AllSky camera... If I could plate solve every x number of frames, this could negate the considerable data loss...
View ArticleMesu 200 and Meridian Flip
Hi I wonder if you could help me please? I have a MESU 200 and a Celestron C11 mounted on it in a fixed observatory on a pier. Also Sitech II. I don't know how to set the limits so that my kit doesn't...
View ArticleMesu 200 and Meridian Flip
Paul I am in Germany at the moment and have limited internet access. I wrote a lengthy post on the SGP forum so if you can find that it will tell you as much as I know. I won't be back home for...
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
One solution should be as in CCD Commander I used to do to focus: You send the scope to a near star each n frames. In this way you force SGP to do a plate solve when you want. The problems is that you...
View ArticleMesu 200 and Meridian Flip
thanks Gnomus - the only piece I can find is the one in this thread. Thanks for your help. Paul
View ArticleMesu 200 and Meridian Flip
OK Paul. I have Internet at the moment, but who knows how long that will last. The over and under pole settings are confusing. One set of numbers sets the absolute hard limit at which the Mesu will...
View ArticleMesu 200 and Meridian Flip
So to be clear, if you set the Meridian Limit West to '05.00.00' and '-175.00.00'; then the East settings to '-05.00.00' and '175.00.00', then the mount will happily track 5 degrees either side of the...
View ArticleMesu 200 and Meridian Flip
thanks Steve - I'll see if I can make sense of this when I get to the mount. One basic question is - in your text above, where does 175 come from? Why would you enter that as a limit? i.e. what...
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
I can see how that may work, but if I wanted to ensure that I got a full nights run, I would have to have a massive target list for a move at least hourly.......
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
I am not aware of a setting in SGP to trigger recovery sooner or to re-center in this scenario (that doesn't mean it's not there but I don't know about it). Two things come to mind. First you could...
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
Hi Joel, I will look at increasing the size of the PHD box, but it is already about 80px wide as I recall. My polar alignment is good, I use a Polemaster and also when checking in PHD guiding...
View ArticleEnding up off target after cloud passing thorugh
Well if your PHD box is already 80px wide that's really big and I don'tthink increasing it will help. It just puzzles me that there is that muchmovement over just 10min. What mount? I just wonder if...
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