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Hello, 1-2) It's required to click "Save parameters" in the Plate Solve window. This does not depend on Service Packs, it was required also in Astroart 7 for centering the telescope with plate solve. So, 13.5 +- 10% arcminutes is probably the default settings for plate solving. Changing them without...

Hi, the plugins for controlling Canon and Nikon cameras have been updated to support the latest cameras.
See: https://www.msb-astroart.com/ or
https://www.msbsoftware.it/astroart/
If you are already controlling a supported camera, there is no need to upgrade.
Clear skies, Fabio.

Hello, a new version of the free FITS viewer, annotator and converter "AvisFV" was released today: https://www.msbsoftware.it/avis/ All the code is now derived from Astroart 8, while the previous version (AvisFV 2.0) was derived from Astroart 6. Also improved is the code for opening images from spac...

At the end of batch photometry, you could set a format something like: RR LYR,<JD>,<MAG1>,<MAGERR1>,V,NO,STD,NA,NA,NA,NA,<AIRMASS>,NA,[ChartID],NA to create an AAVSO report in magnitudes, but this would be only the last step of a more complex procedure. Star detecting can be changed from Options / S...

Hi Nuno, OK, meanwhile a faster script can be obtained using a Formula: Image.PrepareUndo f = "vr : If(0.5*(vr+vb)<vg, 0.5*(vr+vb), vg) : vb" Image.Formula(f) Image.Update It will be faster than a script code, but still slower than a real plugin. The same formula can be used to create a direct comma...

Hello, the documentation for the plugin SDK, is inside the folder "Generic_plugin", file: Plugins.htm. There are instructions about getting the R,G,B color planes using ac_getbuffer(). For example, from the Lazarus example: callback(ac_getbuffer, pimage, @buffer, pointer(PCGREEN)) just add: callback...

Good morning, if the H-Alpha is to be used as luminance, then the command is: LRGB Combine.
If not, probably the H-Alpha should be normalized to the color image (Arithmetic / Normalize / Scale) before proceeding with other commands.

The dynamic range of that FITS is floating point 0.0 - 1.0, if you need to recover the ADUs you could multiply the image it by 65536. Was this the problem ? If instead the problem was to change the visualization, then try: CTRL + Wheel rotate for finer control (CTRL + SHIFT + Wheel for the black lev...

Hello, I was able to open the video on one PC but not on another one. The Windows API function: AVIStreamGetFrameOpen() returned NULL which means missing codec. The format is indeed peculiar: a color video plus a grayscale palette. Windows Media Player can play the video on both PCs. VLC showed it c...

Hi, do you mean the menu item? In AA8 it's: Filters / Stars / Remove

Hello, I found that it happens if the zoom is at 2x, for other zoom levels it doesn't happen.
It was corrected today, it will be released with SP2.
Thanks, Fabio.

Hello, the PDF manual is not public, you may use the same link received by email. If you lost the message just contact me by email or PM.
Fabio.