Plate Solve Tab

Image

Binning defines the camera binning that will be used for determining telescope pointing. It is recommended that you use 2+ to improve S/N and reduce image download time

X/Y scale is the camera unbinned scale in arc-sec / pixel.

Press the small button to open the Scale calculator

Max Solve Time

Set the maximum time in seconds to plate solve an image,default = 60 sec.

Buttons:

Edit star avoid will open a text file that contain a list of stars that will be ignored by AcquireStar.

Occasionally AquireStar may locate a star in the star catalog that appears to FocusMax as double star which will result in poor or failed autofocus run.

'ID |RA |Dec |Mag ==> Any line starting with ' will be ignored. Do not delete this line

'GSC 3097-0115|17:52:09.2|+42:51:25.8|7.11 ==> sample - you may delete this line

SAO 49603 |20:25:26 |+42:36:18 |6.9

The file contains Star ID, Ra and Dec and magnitude delimited by '|'.

Simply add the known problem star to the list and AcquireStar will ignore it.

Expose & Solve will take an image and attempt to plate solve the current telescope position using the method selected on the AcquireStar Setup tab.