Hi
Build: 2018-09-01T10:49:35Z
Much better. Not sure if we can do better than this. 2 sessions on consecutive nights. Lost a little over 100px. Is that within the limits what we can expect?
Maybe dithering? maybe guiding? For consecutive-nights setup, I usually set a "master" FITS that I use as reference and scheduler would use that to align to.
Ah, ok. I tried that before but it's not clear what is correct as I still had to enter RA and DEC coordinates into the scheduler. Does the fits image take priority?
Suggestion: if a file is entered, remove the need to enter coordinates?
TIA.
The RA/DE coordinates have to be of the desired object of course, so the scheduler to slew to that area. Then alignment process takes over and solves the FIT, slews again to its center (which shouldn't be too far from where object is), then performs the usual alignment process. So you don't need to manually edit the RA/DE, use whatever values of the object from KStars and then simply select the master fits file you want to align to.
Quite often the coordinates of centre frame are empty sky. To begin a scheduler entry, the ability to copy coordinates from kstars would be really useful to populate the scheduler coordinate boxes. Then, after the first session we can use the load solve slew method.
Cheers and thanks again,
Steve