... and yet another great option. PHD2 is essentially sitting there idling away until a dither command is issued. -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery -

>>>In your SGP equipment profile, change it from PHD to Direct Mount Guider. Configure how much you want to dither and set your settling time and you should be good to go. You can dither but no need

Why not? You can effectively turn guiding off in PHD by dialing in a large MinMove such as 20. Then basically the mount gets no guide corrections and can merrily track at the custom rate without

Right now we have not integrated plate solving, but this may be added in the future to make the cycle faster. Remember, this is just a quick way to achieve unguided imaging for an object that you wish

HOW COOL IS THAT! Thank you very much Linda. Awesome! -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery - http://astrophoto.net/wp/image-gallery/ Astrobin -

Dean, In your SGP equipment profile, change it from PHD to Direct Mount Guider. Configure how much you want to dither and set your settling time and you should be good to go. You can dither but no

Sure, no problem, I am up to speed with you on that. It is the implementation with the image capture software that I haven't got a handle on yet. PHD2 and SGP coordinate to dither between images

Thank you, Rolando. That sounds great! I like fast and accurate. It’s simple, too. I was thinking that there may have been some plate solving involved, but this is much better. Don Don Rudny

You can dither all you want. That does not affect the custom rates that are calculated and applied to follow the actual sky motion above you. Think of it this way: If you have Sidereal rate set, but

Wow.

Very impressive... amazing actually. I am really looking forward to hearing more about this. It is definitely something I could use. I am among those who have cameras that require that I dither my

Bruce, Always most welcome. Enjoy! Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-282-1513 Email: george@...

Thanks much, George. Best Regards, Bruce

The keypad is independent of all other apps such as APCC or plate solving software. The CP controller will accept commands from all apps connected to it. Roland

The idea is to center a star on a crosshair. When the star is centered via the keypad buttons you simply press Enter on the keypad and the position is recorded in the mount. The crosshair can be an

Bruce, We sell a Keypad extension cable (CABKEY--). https://www.astro-physics.com/cabkey Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-282-1513 Email:

Roland, this looks exciting, any ETA for release? This seems like a great feature for us mobile (non fixed installation) users. Given how easy and fast this is, 5 minutes/hour of object

Hello, All this work by Roland and his team is great. I would have liked to have the keyboard at the same time as my Mach2 to test these routines from the start. But it does not matter because with

Good questions Don. You and I have similarcircumstances. I have an 1100 GTO with a CP4 and Keypad(both purchased in March, 2017), but the software has never been upgradedin either. I am not even sure

Hi All, After following this thread, I am still unsure of how this is done. Sounds like a revolutionary system. I have an AP1100 with CP4, so I think I just need to upgrade the CP4 firmware and buy