When you use plate solve and sync, it limites the search to within 15 degrees of the mount co-ordinates (which is much faster), but if the error is more than that then it will fail.įinally, the RPC error is odd - that usually means that there is a problem communicating with another process. Try turning up the sigma setting until the number of stars is in the 100 to 300 range.Īnother thing to watch out for is to make sure that the co-ordinates shown in the mount in SharpCap are within 15 degrees (or 1 hour RA) of the place where the scope is pointing. Let's start with the plate solving problem - I can see in the background of your screenshot that 4300 stars were found in the image - that almost certainly means that the 'sigma' setting in the plate solving settings is too low, meaning that noise in the image is being detected as stars, this will usually cause plate solving failures.
If i do Plate solve only it solve.Īlso clicking the arrow keys in sharpcap gave an error "the RPC server is unavailable" but in stellarium i can move them and in ascom they move also in stellarium. I did what you said but it doesn't plate solve i don't know why, no matter the changes in gain or exposure. If you move further in one go then use steps 5 and 6.
I know this can be done, but I haven't done it myselfĤ) Make sure that both SharpCap and Stellarium are connected to the virtual mountĥ) Using stellarium (or the arrow keys in SharpCap) set the mount position to roughly where you are looking with your dob (within a few degrees)Ħ) Trigger 'Plate solve and resync' in SharpCap - this will run the plate solve and then sync the mount position to the plate solve results - the co-ordinates in SharpCap and the mount pointing position in Stellarium should both update to match the area you are looking at.Īs you move around the sky, if you move less than about 15 degrees at a time then you can just repeat step 6.
NET'Ģa) Set the plate solve action in the SharpCap settings to 'Sync Mount Only'ģ) Similarly set up stellarium to also talk to this simulated telescope mount.
Yes, I think you should be able to do this.ġ) Install the ASCOM platform if you haven't already.Ģ) Set up SharpCap to talk to the ASCOM simulated telescope mount 'Telescope Simulator for.