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  • Posted a comment on discussion General discussions ASTAP on astap program

    Works wonderfully! Thanks, Dave

  • Posted a comment on discussion General discussions ASTAP on astap program

    Han, wonderful program, your contribution is immense! I have a small issue, annotation, such as date and image center, show up off screen as below: Thanks,

  • Posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions on Sky simulator for Ascom & Alpaca

    Han, I had thought about that, but I had remembered programs that were locked to the clock for renewal purposes, and so for a while it was difficult to change the system clock. I'll give that a try and see how well it works. Thanks, Dave

  • Posted a comment on discussion Feature suggestions on Sky simulator for Ascom & Alpaca

    Han, would it be possible, and not too confusing, to be able to set the simulation time? I often use exposure limits in NINA based on astronomical darkness or height above horizon, and these are obviously time dependent. I also try to build and simulate my sequences when it is light out, but if the target is not visible my conditions in NINA won't let the sequence execute. Otherwise, it is wicked cool watching NINA and Sky Simulator and ASTAP all do there things in more than real time, and much warmer...

  • Posted a comment on discussion General Discussion on Sky simulator for Ascom & Alpaca

    I could hear you squashing that bug! My image bounced between 65 and 90MB, perfectly acceptable. While I have your ear, I'm noticing with Sky Simulator, ASTAB and NINA, that sometimes the mount RA/Dec and Alt/Az come unsync'd. I can slew to a target, the RA/Dec displays the correct location, the image that SkySim pops up is located correctly, but the Alt/Az can be 50-100degrees off, and ASTAP will not solve. I have seen this in a routine that has a Slew to Alt/Az, and later a Slew and Center, in...

  • Posted a comment on discussion General Discussion on Sky simulator for Ascom & Alpaca

    Han, I have noticed a memory leak in Betas 10 and 11. The image starts out ~100MB, but in ~10 minutes grows to 4GB, and keeps going until Windows 11 crashes it. Otherwise, a truly wonderful product, and how do we encourage to keep this up?!? :}

  • Posted a comment on discussion General Discussion on Sky simulator for Ascom & Alpaca

    Han, Sorry for the delay, I was inadvertently looking at the ASTAP forum for your reply on SkySim. MY very bad. I also have not been able to connect NINA to Alpaca, and the developers or some of them seem hostile to Alpaca. I was able to get things working, by doing adjustments to the camera driver thru PHD2. So, similar to Terry, I have a workaround. I'm still baffled as to what changed, but my software is limited to Arduinos. (In a prior job I got promoted out of writing software!) Thanks again...

  • Posted a comment on discussion General Discussion on Sky simulator for Ascom & Alpaca

    Han, I'm having an issue with NINA and SkySim (a great program by the way) in beta 24 of NINA, version 3.9 of APT and RC4 of SkySim. This worked in beta 19 of NINA. The issue is when I open the settings box for the camera in NINA, and try to set the path to the current image, I get a .Net Framework error where the DragDrop registration failed. More details below. Apparently the NINA folks believe the issue is with Sky Sim, not NINA, even though I only see it in NINA/APT. NINA's response was: i think...

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