mcgillca wrote:
1) I generally focus manually with a Bahtinov mask
Not sure about that one, I'm pretty sure when I used to use my Bahtinov mask that it worked with my imaging setup too, but now you have me wondering
2) I didn't sync at all, which left my pointing~ 2 degs away from the correct spot. Of course, platesolve sorted this out (though I sometimes needed multiple moves to get to the right location). Again, is there a recommended way to e.g. Sync to one star first, then use platesolve, or to automatically Sync then move to the right location?
When I use platesolve, I tend to do the solve & sync option so that the scope has accurate settings and kstars updates to show the actual scope position, then I'll click slew to object once more if it's further out that I'd like and do another plate solve. There is an option to plate solve and slew to target which I believe will slew, solve, slew, solve several times until it's within a given margin of error from the target. I've not tried that though.
3) I managed to create a scheduled imaging session - track, align and capture. That worked well, but I had two problems: a) I could not find a way to reset the job (I double clicked but when I reran the job, I was just told it was completed). Secondly, I set up a series of different exposure times as a sequence file. This worked well from the Camera tab, but when I used it as part of a scheduled run, Ekos only took the first set of images (I had 4 sets of 2 images each of different exposure lengths). Am I doing something wrong?
I've not tried using the scheduled session, but I have noticed when I abort or pause a existing job then remove it and add new, the old will seem to continue before the newly added job even if it's the only job in the list. This doesn't happen all the time though. It may be worth trying to do a session that is just exposures during the day to establish if there's a set of steps needed to cause it to act oddly, it could be a bug.
Thank you again,
Colin
P.S. Apologies if this is posted twice - I can't see it in the forums.[/quote]
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