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Dear friends I run AA version 5.0 still on a 10 Micron mount. As described in the title i want AA order my mount to park and shut off lets say after a certain time , for instance 3 hours. More sophiticated for future times i am interested how it is possible to trigger AA to park and shut down my mou...

Hello, here is a script for taking several images of moving objects, where the telescope must be moved every N images to recenter the object. -- TUTORIAL -- (you can test it indoor using the camera and telescope simulator). 1) Go to an ephemeris service web site, for example the MPC: http://www.mino...

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Hi Fabio,
thank you for the answer. These planned new functions would improve the comparision of S/N images!
I asked for an update to Astroart 6.0 via email some days ago. Could you please answer?
Gerd

Hi Gerd, I confirm that the script command cannot rotate. A solution will be probably added later this year because it would be useful for supernova search, for portable systems. That was requested also by V. Tinella (who used it for the S/N in UGC 11635, see the next post), along with an improved d...

Hi all, is there anybody who uses the image.blinkalign in a script? According to my experiences this command aligns two images only with shifting but without rotation. In the program window an automatic align function with shift and rotation is available. How can I use this automatic procedure in a ...

Hello Paolo Yes, this is exactly this kind of workaround I have been looking for. Thanks a lot :-) In principle, this solution should have been obvious. Confusingly I did'nt see it. I tried your suggestion in a "dry run" and so far it seems to work without problems. Well, I have already been working...

Interesting... I have to ask - why take a reference frame between each sub? I usually only do it at the beginning and end of the run. I don't use scripts (maybe I should!) so I manually re-set the slit guiding when I use the reference flip mirror.... What I think Paulo is saying and I'm thinking is ...

Hi Sebastian, I suggest you to use the command "Telescope.Disconnect" instead of "Camera.StopAutoguide()". The effect is that of pressing "Connected" button on the guide window, so the reference for the guiding point remain unchanged. After taking the calibration lamp frame you have to send the comm...

Hello For high-resolution spectroscopy I am autocalibrating every 10 minutes with an (astroart script controlled) Thorium-Argon lamp and a flip mirror. This flip mirror - which has to be activated during calibration - blocks the complete field of view including the guiding image. Therefore I stop au...

The script has several bugs, here is an improved version: dir$ = "C:\Temp" for timeExp = 1 to 10 for timeMul = 1 to 10 for i = 1 to 4 expo = timeMul * Exp(-1*timeExp) Print "Taking a picture with an exposure of "; expo Camera.Start(expo) Camera.Wait fileName$ = Str(i) + "_" + Str(expo) + ".fit" Imag...

Are you sure your formula is okay?
If I put it in Google calculator I get 0.00045399929 s exposure (assuming time and timebase are 10)
And what are you trying to achieve