Is it possible to focus away from the target?

[Ken]

@Blinky

can then set gain to 300 for Ha and something less severe for LRGB) and focus time to 5 seconds

We can look into something like this. It has always been our recommendation in the past to always focus with LRGB (even when shooting narrowband), but if gain works to reduce the exposure time, maybe? I still worry that there will be much data that is unavailable to HFR metrics engine using narrowband. In the end, the proof would be in the quality of focus. When you set gain manually to this value and run Auto Focus you are happy with the resultant focus at the end of the run?

@Blinky

What is the focus set thing then? If focus is failing I can exclude a star or area? Still not great for something like the Orion Neb as its pretty much full of nebulosity - could we not have somethng that says slew to the nearest Mag x star of something and focus on that?

Here is our current perspective on focus sets. It is pretty high on the priority list due to it’s popularity:

Autofocus with part of an image--would be a HUGE help!

While we do not have a promised date for such a thing, the solution we have come up with for this is referred to as “Auto Focus Sets”. An Auto Focus Set is independent of the sequence but can be attached to a sequence (like a user profile for example). The Auto Focus set editor allows for Capture of the current target to establish a working canvas Drawing tools that add regions for capture Drawing tools that remove regions from capture Duplicate existing as a starting point for new Form eleme…