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Astroart 8 SP4 has some new script functions to create a sequence of images. Try the following example after having connected the Camera Simulator: if Sequencer.Active then print "Sequencer already running" Script.Stop end if Sequencer.Clear Sequencer.Add("Light", 3, 10, 1) Sequencer.Add("Dark", 2, ...

Hello, Astroart 8 SP4 includes a new SDK to easily develop image processing filters. Using a built-in dialog window, Astroart will manage automatically: Preview Real-time preview Comparison with the original image Undo Documentation so, the programmer only needs to code the filter itself. The parame...

further information from the updated documentation: Optical distortions with user defined polynomial order ... use the option "Distortions between images" only if the images cannot be aligned well by normal rotations. This can happen with large fields when the images were taken on different nights o...

Hello, a new minor version of Astroart 8 is available (actually it's a pretty big update): Version 8.0 SP4 - May 14, 2023 ------------------------------ * New feature. Optical distortions with user defined polynomial order. * New feature. Align RGB planes with optical distortions. * New feature. Cor...

Hello, a new version (3.60) of the Astroart plugin for Starlight-Xpress cameras (Trius and older SXV-H series) is available at Astroart web site: https://www.msb-astroart.com

About these cameras, see: https://www.sxccd.com/cameras/

Hi Andrew, congratulations! I'm following the developments, for example:
http://www.spectro-aras.com/forum/viewt ... =36&t=3090
Fabio.

Hi Joe,
you may switch to SP2 / SP3 , using the SP3 Upgrade: https://www.msb-astroart.com/down_en.htm
but I think that nothing will change.

Maybe you are now using the 64 bit version? Maybe you upgraded the QHY ASCOM driver and now the device names are called: QHYCCD-Camera and QHYCCD-Guider?

The setting is saved into the "Temp" folder of Windows, so it's possible that if you "clean up" the PC it gets deleted too.
In a future release it will be saved into a more persistent folder.
Fabio.

ASCOM relay boxes are rare hardware which converts USB/serial to an autoguide cable, it's probably not the correct settings. If there is no need to control the mount for GOTOs, I confirm that the correct setting is: "Camera 2 relays" / "Same connection of GOTO" or "ASCOM guider relays" / "Same conne...

... Looking at the full frame focusing window in AA8 there isn’t an option to set the exposure duration by filter (I.e. 3 seconds for LRGB filters and 30 seconds for the narrow band filters ... Until now it's only possible with scripts, but that's actually an interesting feature. It will be added t...

Hello, do you refer to the smaller catalog of 1346 stars or the bigger one with 15 millions stars ? At the moment other catalogs cannot be added to the Star Atlas, but these two catalogs could be accessed by an image processing plugin, for example to create a synthetic image, a reference to calibrat...

Hello, the airmass is calculated at mid-exposure.
Instead, DATE-OBS is always the start of exposure in the FITS standard, and mid-exposure is a calculated field, as: DATE-OBS + EXPOSURE/2.
Fabio.