jiberjaber replied to the topic 'mapping the horizon....' in the forum. 3 years ago

The horizon in Kstars is great but one issue I often struggle with is which point to take as the edge of the horizon when building it using my scope, use the centre of FOV or the edge of FOV? This would make 'tarket is 5 degrees above artificial horizon' something that would need to be standardised.

I think I used centre last time, but this has changed slightly as there are no leaves on the trees at the moment :)

However, being able to judge against the horizon in the scheduler is a good item - as then I wouldn't have to manually alter my sequences to stop before the target disappears and then move on to something else.

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