Astroart Forum

I use a laptop for imaging that can control everything mount,camera, filter wheel, guider, focuser, all with AstroArt. Sometimes I go into the house and use Remote desktop to control AA on the imaging laptop and it all works, so I know it can be done. You are running everything on the AstroArt versi...

I'm confused by what you are trying to do. It sounds like you have the mini PC outfitted to run all your equipment and use remote desk top to operate the remote computer. If that is what you are doing you should not have ALPACA discovery enabled.

Hi Dave, I don't think you should be trying to connect to ASCOM remote/Alpaca if you are using remote desktop. The ASCOM driver is in the mini PC that has the camera connected to it and you are remotely operating the mini pc desk top. I think your problem is that the mini pc is trying to connect to ...

FYI the auto calibration in AA8 works very well, much better then previous versions. Sorry I can't help with your Gemini 2 question.

Hi Morten, open an image you want to crop then drag a rectangle the size and position you want. Next open define Macro and then use the slider to find Crop. Double click crop and name the macro. When you run that macro it will crop the image that is open or you can load the images you want cropped a...

OK, got it.
Thanks

Hi Fabio, I've been using plate solving since you added it to AA. Could you please clarify where AA plate solve gets it's catalog data and where it's stored ? I added the GAIA catalog for AA 8, is it only used for the Star Atlas ? It may be a coincidence but since I added it AA now takes about 8 sec...

It is available on the "Buy" page.

http://www.msb-astroart.com/or_en.htm

What brand camera is it? Is it possible you were using a native driver in Sharp cap and not the ASCOM driver? You mentioned you have the ASCOM platform installed, do you have the ASCOM driver for your camera also installed, Just trying to trouble shoot.

you should have received a copy of GSC and GAIA did you select the folder to where you have the files saved ?

As long as the darks and lights have the same exposure time you will be fine. To scale you would need to take darks with a longer exposure then your lights and a bias frame. There is a separate section in preprocessing that handles dark scaling, just don't use that feature.

I thought you you couldn't find where to apply Sigma+sum. This is the only explanation I could find in the manual. In case you didn't see it. "Sum, Average, Sigma or Median. Select how to build the final image and the master dark frame and flat field. "Sum" and "Average" are best methods in terms of...