Sequence Generator Pro anyone ?

[Carole]

I am sure you are right Duncan, but you guys are much more IT savvy than me, I read through the installation instructions on Astrototilla once and decided it was far too complex.  Plus until I can resolve the away from the laptop issue where I could not use a wireless came pad, I don't really want to have to use EQmod as a regular thing.  I suppose a wired gamepad might be the solution, but not sure I can be bothered.

Carole

[The Thing]

It's easy as long as you know the range of fields of view of your setups so that you don't download too many indices.

(sorry about the thread hijack robert!)

[RobertM]

Platesolving makes life so easy Carole. Last night I wanted to re-acquire the Crescent IC443 exactly as the night before and so I just did a 'goto image' using one of last nights subs. I used AstroTortilla to do this. 120s later (solve old image, slew to where the mount thinks it is, take a shot, solve new image, solve to verify position - repeat until on target) and I had a test shot showing the exact same framing of my target. No-brainer.

Duncan, that's ok (this forum is like any other) btw. how long does astrotortilla take to do a blind plate solve on your images.

Carole, just been trying some of those other bits:

Integration with GNS - right now it's giving me status updates via GNS... Dithering... Starting integration of event 2 - coolio 
Mosaic wizard - put in the object name and it pulls in a plate from DSS covering the area then you can lay a frame of your camera on top and either use that as a target or drag the frame larger to create mosaic entries.  Once happy you can then create a sequence direct from that window.

Here's a screenshot of it in action:



PS. GNS has just told me that the guide star was lost due to cloud and SGPro automatically restarted the sub (after guiding settled down).

[Carole]

GNS has just told me that the guide star was lost due to cloud and SGPro automatically restarted the sub (after guiding settled down).

That's pretty smart.

Carole