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The new Astroart 9 demo: one new feature: "Automatic mosaic from plate solved images." And it will correct for optical distortion. load two or more overlapping images that have been plate solved, or load them and plate solve them: Dropdown menu->Tools->plate solve then with both images open: drop do...

Kaban wrote: ↑

15 Sep 2024, 00:32

Hello.

No. Guiding is not active.
Besides, if i get a single image just before or after focus, the image is perfectly normal with round stars!

Is your mount polar aligned?

I'm not very happy with Chrome remote hence the USB rout. There is a thread on CN about remote connection options and Windows remote seems to have a lot of fans. Both my computers have Windows home so I would have to pay $100 to get Pro. On the other hand ASCOM remote is free so if anyone is using ...

Is anyone using ASCOM remote? I have my observatory up and running temporarily using USB extender. I want to set up wireless connection, either Windows remote desktop or ASCOM remote. If you are using ASCOM remote how is it working out for you? I don't use it, but why not just use a miniPC, running...

astrosharp wrote: ↑

19 Apr 2024, 10:29

Hi,
I can't seem to locate a 64-bit version of the AA8 remote DLL. I found a previous discussion about this from back in 2016 but the link is dead.
Best Regards
Ian Sharp

As per the above, but the specific URL:

https://www.msb-astroart.com/plugins/AA ... ontrol.zip

I've upgraded one of my imaging setups [ 10in SCT at F8 with a Starizona LF SCT reducer, OAG with ASi178mm guide camera, CEM120 mount] from an APSC Orion Starshoot Pro V1 camera to an APSC ASI1071 MC Pro camera. I am happy to report that AA8 64bit SP5 + ASCOM 2.73 works as expected with the 64bit ca...

I'm doing my best at trying to use a paramount MEII controlled by AA8 via The Sky X. I have The correct ASCOM Sky for telescope control where I have deactivated synchronise. What I would like to know is the correct settings for TSX and start up procedure. I start up AA with the control settings suc...

fabdev wrote: ↑

22 Mar 2024, 00:08

Thanks, may you send me or post a sample image?
Actually it would be possible to deconvolve differently all parts of the image, for example if coma is present. Every corner of the image will be different.
Fabio.

I could email you a sample fits image.

I was thinking about how to implement more effective deconvolution that would work better for images that have a large variation in the PSF from the centre to the edge of the sensor. A simple way would be to automatically create a series of circular masks. with the inner mask covering about 25% diam...

This is 33 x 15min subs (8.25 hours) taken through a 10in SCT at F8 using an Orion Star Shoot Pro V1 atop a CEM120 mount. Autoguided, autofocused, and processed in AA8 SP5. Flat fielded, DF subtracted. processing history: 14:00:40 Remove gradient adaptive sub. 80 13:57:53 DDP 90 30 0 25 50 1.45 20 1...

Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) is a 14th magnitude planetary nebula in Lynx. This image is the result of a Sigma-Sum stack of 36 x 900sec subframes (9 hours integration time), taken by an Orion Starshoot Pro V2 APSC CCD camera through a Meade 10in F6.3 SCT @ F5 via a Starizona .75X SCT reducer on a ...

Hi, I am at the very beginning of my leaning curve about scripts. So, I have a number of questions ... I would like to shift a set of images (image-1.fit, image-2.fit, image-3.fit, ..., image-i.fit) by a given shift (X, Y)(i), the value of each shift (X,Y) dependant on the image number i. I know ho...