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by AlessandroMaitan
05 Mar 2024, 09:33
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Arduino
Replies: 3
Views: 517

Re: Arduino

Hi Frank, I'd like to share the code calling Arduino to verify if the roof is opened or closed. It was developed several years ago by a friend for his own observatory. I modified a litlle the original one: QUOTE RoofStatusCheck() End Function RoofStatusCheck() cmd_serl=7 'serial port set by Arduino ...
by AlessandroMaitan
31 Jan 2024, 15:34
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Arduino
Replies: 3
Views: 517

Re: Arduino

Hi, I'm currently using such an integration for opening and closing the roof of my observatory after checking the relevant status of either the telescope (it shall be parked) and the roof itself. This last control is made by using a magnetic switch. The relevant commands, that are defined in the Ard...
by AlessandroMaitan
22 Aug 2023, 07:26
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Script for plate solving
Replies: 1
Views: 784

Re: Script for plate solving

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 ...
by AlessandroMaitan
09 Aug 2023, 07:22
Forum: Image processing and analysis
Topic: calibration (dark,Flat & Bias
Replies: 18
Views: 3242

Re: calibration (dark,Flat & Bias

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
by AlessandroMaitan
08 Aug 2023, 07:06
Forum: Image processing and analysis
Topic: calibration (dark,Flat & Bias
Replies: 18
Views: 3242

Re: calibration (dark,Flat & Bias

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

Regards.

Alessandro
by AlessandroMaitan
01 Aug 2023, 08:40
Forum: Scripts
Topic: The center plate
Replies: 7
Views: 1121

Re: The center plate

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 ...
by AlessandroMaitan
31 Jul 2023, 08:49
Forum: Scripts
Topic: The center plate
Replies: 7
Views: 1121

Re: The center plate

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...
by AlessandroMaitan
21 Jul 2023, 08:20
Forum: Scripts
Topic: The center plate
Replies: 7
Views: 1121

Re: The center plate

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
by AlessandroMaitan
29 Nov 2022, 08:16
Forum: Image processing and analysis
Topic: Placing a mark at an exact coordinate
Replies: 6
Views: 1557

Re: Placing a mark at an exact coordinate

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

Alessandro
by AlessandroMaitan
09 Jun 2022, 12:39
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Peculiar flat fields for research
Replies: 1
Views: 1596

Re: Peculiar flat fields for research

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

Alessandro
by AlessandroMaitan
31 Dec 2020, 13:58
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Default directory and asteroid target list
Replies: 4
Views: 2767

Re: Default directory and asteroid target list

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
by AlessandroMaitan
31 Dec 2020, 08:28
Forum: Scripts
Topic: Default directory and asteroid target list
Replies: 4
Views: 2767

Re: Default directory and asteroid target list

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...