Hello,

After yesterday's series of squatting exercises in the cold of the night, while covering guiding camera and removing cover I have though are there any easier way to do that? There were also issues with capturing and resolving stars, however I cannot yet say what exactly was wrong and how to formulate the issue when after switching cameras and trying to do polar align, EKOS stopped resolving. So i will retry and try to make some debug data.

Now returning to darks. As my ZWO cameras does not have a shutter, I would prefer to automate building a dark library so I can remotely connect to a laptop, running EKOS outside, while I am sitting at home. I have tried to do that by setting an image capture session with all possible exposure duration, gain, binning values with camera cap on and use those darks in the EKOS library. But simply uploading the dark files to dark library location does not seem to be working.

Are there any other way than just manually ticking dark in Alignment module and then try to capture manually bunch of images with closed camera cap and clicking though the pop up dialogs? This seems to be working, but it does not look the way it should be. PHD2 seems to have an option to build Dark library by by taking series of shots.

Thanks

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