Manual Rotator not always working

Sequence Generator Plate Solving
#1

Hey everyone!

I am using Sequence Generator Pro since December 2015 and always had a manual rotator setup in my equipment profile. I also connected it properly during startup of my session.

Strangely the prompt to manually rotate the camera in a certain direction only appeared once during the last 10 months of imaging and I was pretty surprised by it. It was exactly what I was searching for. Now a week later it again does not pop up during plate solve and I somehow cannot get it to show.

Do you guys have any idea what I might be doing wrong here? The rotator element in the main screen tells me the plate solved current rotator position but that prompt would have been great.

Tom

#2

Are you telling the sequence that you want to set the image to a particular angle? It prompts you to do this if you use the Framing and Mosaic Tool. There is a checkbox for each sequence you need to select in addition to ‘connecting’ to the manual rotator on the equipment menu.

#3

Yes I am planning my sequences with the framing and mosaic wizard, rotating the field of view to make it fit best. I am not sure how I can look up the angle I set in the final sequence again. Is it the number of degrees in the target window? I could start to manually compare these degrees (if they are the correct ones) with the ones reported from plate solving but I assume using the “rotate your camera” popup would be easier to handle it.

#4

I always thought it gave you a pop up if you have the manual rotator selected and the angle set. Isn’t there a checkbox on the sequence that tells it you want to do it as well?

#5

Yeah I thought the same. Only got it once though during the whole time. In the target settings under “Other” the checkbox for “Rotate camera to: XX degrees” is properly checked. Manual rotator view also reports the plate solved degrees.

I assume the amount of degrees shown in the target settings window are the ones I specified in the framing and mosaic wizard, correct? So compared to my plate solve I about 5 degrees off at the minute. Is there a minimum delta degrees when the pop up is not appearing which I can configure somewhere?

#6

You will only receive a popup dialog if your camera is out of the user defined rotation tolerance. There is no log attached so that’s just a guess.

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#7

Thanks Ken that was the info I was searching for.

Regarding your attached Announcement, I searched through the manual rotator, rotator and automatic camera rotation pages of the help file and there is no mention of a configurable user defined rotation tolerance.

http://mainsequencesoftware.com/Content/SGPHelp/SequenceGeneratorPro.html?ManualRotator.html
http://mainsequencesoftware.com/Content/SGPHelp/SequenceGeneratorPro.html?AutomaticCameraRotation.html

I have also not yet seen that setting showing up somewhere but I will look again. I believe it would be a good idea to add a link to the page describing the rotation tolerance setting to these help pages.

#8

Since the tolerance is not a property of the rotator, it is not found in any of the rotator’s settings. What you are looking for is here:

http://mainsequencesoftware.com/Content/SGPHelp/PlateSolvers.html

Fair point about linking them in the help manual. I will do that quickly.

#9

Tried it last night. Sure enough if you’re out of tolerance if tells you. Otherwise it’s good to go. The manual rotator feature is pretty cool.

#10

Thanks all! Yeah I kept looking for the setting in the rotator area. Did not think about searching for it in the Plate Solver, now it seems logical to place it there. Issue solved :slight_smile:

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