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Manual Rotator - Plate solve - Angle of rotation

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You make a good point. Thanks again.
3 years 2 months ago #65484

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As you mentioned with the load and slew option most of the use case will be covered. The feature described by Croz is a powerful feature that is available in NINA preview. Prior to moving to kstars I used NINA and the framing assistant did this. I used this extensively to reduce the no. of panels required when planning a mosaic. My workflow was:
1. during the day I entered the coordinates or the target I wanted to image and press the load button and the target was loaded on the right hand side.
The box over the image represented the sensor field of view. (note the image source on the top had the option of loading a file and plate solving similar to what feature that we are looking at)
2. On the target section the user can add panels and set the rotation required. The is particularly helpful as it allows me to reduce the number of panels required.
3. Once I am happy with the panels I press add target to scheduler (sequencer in NINA) and panel one and two are send to the sequencer where the no of light frames and dithering and autofocus etc. can be selected similar to kstars.
In my astroclub this is a typical workflow for most users.

Framing live as you have mentioned is no issue, but sometime time consuming when you include setup, pack up manual rotation and manual filter change etc..

But.. thanks heaps for working on this feature this will solve a lot of issues for users like me and increase our imaging time.
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Yeah, that is a nice feature. I've used something similar in SGP in the past. I think the mosaic/observation planner in general could use some TLC, but wanted to get this out as a simple feature.
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Absolutely agree, thanks again ! :)
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Is this feature in the nightly build? I'm using the stable version and I have the rotation option to check, but nothing happens afterwards. I'm guessing this might be added in the future?
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This has not made it into the nightly build yet. I posted the video to get some acceptance from the community on the feature.
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This looks very interesting. I am eager to give it a whirl if it makes it into the nightly build. Any idea when that might be?
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It was added to the main code branch 2 days ago, so it may be in nightly already. Check the "Rotator" box in alignment options (and set the threshold) to enforce rotation checking.
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I’ve been following along with the video that you posted above. I can’t seem to get the window to appear that shows the angle and rotation cw or ccw . I am on the nightly build.
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You need to make sure the Rotator option is checked in the alignment options:



Also, if the rotation error is less than the threshold set in the alignment options, the popup won't show (since you are within the threshold).
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Yes, I’ve checked this and double checked! I have adjusted the threshold up and down. And change the rotation under the CCD simulator. I’m using 100% simulators right now. And I’m using the load and slew.
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The only thing I can think of then is that you don't have the latest build. What is the build date in the About KStars dialog?
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