Hi,
Friday night taking advantage of a good evening,
I wanted to try everything seriously and not from home.
Unfortunately the result did not go well and I am sorry!
I point out that I used the beta 2 version, because beta 3 had given me problems.
I try to describe what happened:
1) I connected the whole set-up, turned it on and everything worked well.
2) I did the polar alignment with the polar finder and then I tried to make it more precise with the software, but something went wrong here
well, because it made me make absurd manual corrections,
despite the frame was already aligned and more in the various photos that come
taken in various positions, in reality the frame has never moved.
3) I made alignments on 3 distant stars using Sync mode and everything went well, but when I went on the object I wanted
photograph, when I clicked to sync, the software crashed !!!
4) I started again from the beginning and this time it worked, but when I arrived at the object that was not perfectly centered, the Slew to Target mode is not
managed to put it in the center! When I realized he couldn't, I stopped and the software crashed again!
5) I started again from the beginning and it seemed that everything worked, but when I did
zoom on the planetarium to see if the Plate Solver worked, the planetarium sky
it turned like an overexposed photo, very noisy and gray in color.
So you could not understand anything and in any case the object was not centered!
I tried to center it manually with Mount Control, but also in this case the software crashed !!!
6) I repeated all the operations again, but when everything was ready, I did
one test shot, but at the end the software crashed again!
7) Although due to all these problems I have not been able to make reliable tests, the guide I saw that it worked well!
From this evening I did not expect any results, because I wanted to do only gods
test to learn how to use this software, but it is obvious that ruining an evening like this was not very nice!
I hope this experience of mine can serve to improve.