hi Ivo

I was initially using 4.70 and changed last night to 4.74. It did not seem to make any difference to the result.

Tony

A bit more information. Although paps went through the motions as if it was satisfactorily doing polar alignment. It was degrees out in both RA and DEC.

Am I asking too much to expect paps to work with a long focal length scope?

I have always used the QHY Polemaster for polar alignment, but I thought I would give APT's paps a go. Using my 480mm refractor and QHY268m it worked well and I had much less guiding input than with the polemaster. I then tried it with my altair astro RC8 and again it worked fine, or so it seemed. E...

Ivo

Sorry for the late reply.

I didn't edit the plan to start with S. I thought it would have been sufficient to move to the S filter using the "go to filter" control. I have since been editing the plan and that has worked fine.

Tony

I am using a QHYCFW3-L filter wheel on version 4.62 of APT. I have a plan set up to take images in Ha, S then O. Last night I wanted to start with S so I manually selected that filter, which appeared, from the images, to work correctly, however the filenames kept the plan order, Ha then S. I have ju...

Thanks Jim as well

Tony

Thanks Chris, i will pass the info on.

Tony

Ivo A friend of mine has just bought a qhy268m and has decided to start using APT with it. He has gone on holiday so has limited internet access, but has come across a couple of problems getting to grips with v4.01. Initially all worked well but today, while experiementing in daylight, APT stored al...

Ivo

I reaiise that I did not have the option to save the focusing images ticked. I have ticked it now but the weather does not look good for the next few days.

Certainly I have over 200 stars so I will make the changes you suggest and see what happens.

thanks

Tony

Ivo
Here are the settings. regards

Tony

Hi Ivo

I am using 3.98.1, but it was the same in the earlier versions.

Does the image file size have an effect as I am using a QHY268C and each frame is 51mb.

I have only used HFD so far as I cannot get any usable results from Invpower.

regards

Tony

Hi Ivo

Just had a look and it is unchecked.

Tony

Ivo I do not know if this is related, but a while ago I mentioned that my screen was blanking when calling autofocus with focuscraft. I thought it was the video RAM but it is still doing it. I use a HitecAstro Focusmaster V1 and according to Hitecastro it is to do with communication of the focusser ...

Hello Ivo I notice that the three points are close to Dec 00. Does PAPS choose the positions where it takes the images or can the user specify the areas? I currently use the QHY Polemaster and that takes three fields rotating around the pole star. The alignment is usually within 30 secs. (at least t...

Ivo

To give you an update, I am using a QHT268C camera so APT is processing 50Mb images every 0.25sec during an autofocus run. I discovered that the laptop was only allocating 32Mb of RAM to video. i have increased this and now everything is behaving itself.

Tony

Hello Ivo Thanks for the reply. so far I have not been able to get Invpower to work. The points do not create a curve, they seem to be almost random. I have reduced the exposure to 0.25 sec, then back higher when it said it did not find any stars. Do you think that I am somehow just overloading the ...

To be honest I do not know if this is related to 3.9+ or auto focussing as I have only just managed to successfully make auto focus work. During autocussing using focuscraft and HFD the screen sometimes takes ages to refresh. As far as I can see using task Manager neither the cpu nor memory are maxi...

Thanks Ivo

regards

Tony

Ivo

Sorry, I did not explain that very well.

Is it possible for APT to pick up the mode automatically and include it in the filename?

Tony

Ivo I might be missing something, but it does not seem to be possible to include the camera (QHY268C) in the filename. Is there a way that this can be included? if I forget what mode I have used for a particular set it will make calibration a problem. If it is not currently possible I wonder if the ...