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Hello, the AARemote.dll can be downloaded from the Astroart web site / Download / Plugins / SDK / Remote control.
The DLL is the same for AA7, 8, 9, so you probably have the latest version.
Fabio.

Hello, a window for flat panels has been added in Astroart 9 SP1 this year. Before that, flat panels could be controlled only by scripts. To connect use (for example): driverName = "ASCOM.Simulator.CoverCalibrator" CoverCalibrator.Connect(driverName) print CoverCalibrator.Name pause(1) CoverCalibrat...

To solve, open the image "2025-10-21...." before launching the Macro. Macro with images as parameters, require that the image is already opened inside Astroart (they will not be opened automatically from disk). However in SP3 it will be sufficient to select the image once. For the moment you can dou...

Hello, you could test it indoor with the camera simulator:
A hardware binning of 2x2 plus a software binning 3x3 will give a 6x6 total binning.
Hardware binning comes from the camera, often from the sensor itself. Software binning is just image processing.
Fabio.

Hi Adam, here is how I would do it with an Astroart script: 1) Plate solve the images if needed. 2) Command "Image.Stars.Find()" to find the N# stars of the R image. 3) Iterate on those stars, to save to an array the Ra, Dec and Adu of each star. 4) Select the U image. 5) Iterate N# times on the U i...

Hi, at the Astroart web site it's available the new plugin for ASCOM cameras, version 2.80, compatible with Astroart 9,8,7,6. The new version supports direct download of color images (which is sometimes the standard mode for new cameras). Obviously this is still a "bad" mode (3X disk space, difficul...

Hi, for tests indoor connect first the Camera Simulator.

Hi, those settings are inside the Telescope Window of Astroart.
Those will be the settings used by the Astroart autoguide to send pulses to the "ASCOM telescope".
Fabio.

Hi, from the Telescope Window select: "ASCOM driver" as GOTO "Same connection" as Guide Just the first time, select the TheSky driver inside the "ASCOM Chooser" . Later you may skip this step unselecting the option "Ascom Chooser". To take a look at the autoguide functions indoor, select instead "Si...

Hi, do you mean that you use TheSkyX ASCOM virtual device to pass guide pulses to the telescope via TheSky? e.g. https://groups.google.com/g/open-phd-guiding/c/7m-b64gaj90 In this case it will work with Astroart as well, but I suggest a test with the demo version. Guiding on a slit for spectrography...

Hi I've read that the Seestar S50 now comes with a standard ASCOM/Alpace driver so, all software ASCOM-compatible should be able to control it, Astroart as well. There could be only a possible problem: some new cameras now by default download images in color (i.e. with automatic debayering). This is...

Thanks for the feedback. I confirm that the edit boxes will be enlarged in the next Service Pack, and presets will be added as well. Well, if there's an option for decreasing those numbers inside their ASCOM driver I would enable it, that would be much more "user friendly", I really don't understand...