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Thanks for your input guys, it is much appreciated. I will continue investigating AA8's Plate Solving function, indoors while this cloud persists. I don't want to be wasting imaging opportunities on it, while I have a very effective Sharpcap/All Sky Plate Solver combination to use. As I said earlie...

Now that I have got AA8 'talking' remotely (Ethernet) to my setup, I thought it would nice to run everything, i.e. Capture, Guiding, and Plate Solving in a single package. I am currently using Sharpcap with PHD2 for capture/guiding, and AA8 for processing. As I am currently stuck under a blanket of...

Awesome!

This is an animation of Leonard created using Astroart 8's (AA8) animated blink tool. The individual frames were all colour decoded, flat fielded, hot pixel filtered and dark subtracted by AA8's preprocessing tool by using the 'keep all files open' option during the generation of a stacked image. I ...

This is an animation of 67P created using Astroart 8's (AA8) animated blink tool. The individual frames were all colour decoded, flat fielded, hot pixel filtered and dark subtracted by AA8's preprocessing tool by using the 'save all files' option during the generation of a stacked image centred on t...

( Install AA8 on the remote computer and then control it remotely from your workstation using Chrome Remote Desktop. It's a free install, that is cross platform and win version and takes about 30 seconds to setup. Maybe not relevant) Also the cameras should show up in the USB devices list on the min...

Nice, is it possible to make both the comet and the stars stacket as with DSS Inside AA8 ? See the previous post about NGC7380. I think the way to do it is too remove the stars from the sub exposures with the Starnet plug-in, stack the comet, then add the stars back in, after masking out the comet ...

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08 Dec 2021, 17:29

Hi, maybe in AA7 it was enabled the option "Binning software 2x2" in the Camera Options (Options / Images / Format) ?
Maybe a similar option is enabled in the Orion Starshoot ASCOM driver ?

Yes! The software binning option was checked. Problem solved.

Dec 06 2021. 10in SCT @ F5 on a CEM60 with an Orion Starshoot Pro V2 (APSC sensor). 26 x 30sec subframes manually stacked in AA8. I autoguided on the comet core.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/dAGAdEtyqDsGX7Ut7

Hi, maybe in AA7 it was enabled the option "Binning software 2x2" in the Camera Options (Options / Images / Format) ? Maybe a similar option is enabled in the Orion Starshoot ASCOM driver ? I'll check that. I thought I had reviewed all the binning options and there are no binning options in the Sta...

Hi. I think I found an error in AA7 SP6. I installed ASCOM 6.5 whilst installing the latest ASI ASCOM driver, but I don't know if that's relevant. Anyways I was having a problem with FF guiding in AA8 with an ASI120MM mini and the previous ASI ASCOM driver. So I closed AA8 and began using AA7 SP6, a...

I am finally back at my observatory and have been using AA8 under the stars with my CEM60 and CEM120 mounts. It is working well so far.