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Hi Andrew, I tried this procedure: - File -> Browse -> select all images that you need to have plate solved -> Menu -> send to Apply Script I used this script for my telescope: QUOTE ra,dec=Image.EstimateRaDec print ra, dec Image.FindCoordinates(ra,dec,5,2,19.3) UNQUOTE please verify the dimensione ...

Hi Eric and Fabio,
effectively in my answer I missed one sentence becuase it was a question. The right answer should have been, "you have to disable it".
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Alessandro

HI Eric,
please check if you selected "save all images" in the Option tab (down right) of the Preprocessing tab.

Regards.

Alessandro

Hello Patrick, in the Astrometry panel of the Tool Menu the item "Center Plate", as far as I have understood, indicates the precision in pixel (0.5 is the suggested precision) of the position of the center plate once the Astrometry calculation have been done. It is indicated by a red inclined cross ...

Hello Patrick, the answer to the first question is yes, it could be also the center of an image. According to my understanding the always a geometrical definition (i.e. an image, either cropped or not, is centered at coordinates x and y). The center plate selection is not in the Astrometry window bu...

Hi Patrick,
"center plate" is a geometrical definition of the coordinates (x/2,y/2) where x and y are the numbers of the pixels of the sensor.
Regards.

Alessandro Maitan

As far as I know you can only position an annotation on pixel coordinates.

Alessandro

Excellent piece of advice Fabio.
I'll give it a try.
Thank you.

Alessandro

Hi Wayne,
I forgot to add the code relevant to the file name:
QUOTE
ora=mid(UTDateTime(),9,4)
fileName = oggi+"-"+ora+SeqSep+name + SeqSep + flt+SeqSep+Format(idx,"000")+SeqSep+str(exp)+"s"
fileName=fileName+".fit"
UNQUOTE

Alessandro Maitan

Hi Wayne, I solved this kind of problem defining a variable with the name of the directory where I intended to save the observation files. In particular I used this code (some words are in Italian, however it's easy to understand): QUOTE oggi=today() year=left(date,4) ImgPath= "C:\Users\user\Picture...

Well, try with the FullFrame Autofocus routine. Is much better than the old AA6 autofocus routine. I'm using this routine in my observation unattended runs and I'm pretty satisfied. However my set up is different from yours (LX600 14") having a longer focal length. I obtained the best results by usi...

Hi Fabio, thank you for the answer. Well, it could be useful having the possibility to check if the .connect was successful or not so I can foresee a routine either to continue (i.e. even if the image is not well focused I can do photometry) or to place the scope in a safe position and close the roo...