David Menzer

Han, I may be responsible for a little mis-direction. I loaded an xisf file as I had used subframe selector in PixInsight, when i load a nef file, SQM works. A little interesting as the xisf files are not processed in any way, and so should be as reliable as a DSLR file. Thanks for chasing this down. Dave

Just loaded the most recent version, solved an image and then tried to have ASTAP calculate the SQM. It came back and said it couldn't for a color image, the was handled gracefully in prior editions? Thanks for your contribution to Astronomy!

Works wonderfully! Thanks, Dave

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,

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

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...

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...

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?!? :}