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I am looking to get a weather station, and am seeking advice from anyone who has already set one up. Thanks in advance. Wayne Hawley Z09

I take say 300 images of an object and want to increase the SNR by stacking them in sets of 5, I know I can do this manually in preprocessing by changing the set each time but is there a way to automate it so that it will grab five images, align, dark and flat correct them and save that image then d...

After using either the find co-ordinates option in AA7 or the Plate Sole option in AA* the FITS image becomes mostly black with only a few brighter objects visible, if I open the FITS image in other software eg CCDCiel it appears normal. Does anyone else get this behaviour?

Many thanks,

I will give these a try, it’s great that there is a way to pick things up from MPCOrb..

Wayne

I’m trying to save images to a new directory that I create in the script using the date$() and create.directory functions. It creates the directory fine But I cannot see how to select this as the default directory to save the images into or how to automatically write the new directory into the save....

I cannot get this camera to work on my Windows Vista laptop it does not appear under the ASCOM camera chooser section of the Camera Control menu option nor does it appear as a selectable option in the Non ASCOM cameras. It does work on this laptop with both SharpCap and PHD2 so it’s not a hardware o...

That was exactly the problem Iver thanks, I should have played a little longer before I posted the issue.

I’ve now worked out what I was doing wrong

I’ve got the filter wheel working correctly using SharpCap but it does not drive to the correct filter when using sequencer in AstroArt 7, what am I doing wrong?

I've downloaded both the Comet.els and MPCORB.DAT into the same folder, comets show up on Star atlas but not asteroids, I have tried several times and shutdown and rebooted the laptop but am not having any success, suggestions would be most welcome..