Hi All,
I have a Nitecrawler 3.5" rotating focuser. Recently I’ve been using the frame and mosaic wizard on some objects. Otherwise I do not rotate the camera to frame.
My question is whether SGP has a setting that allows the user to be able to do a “rotational sync” without going through the sequence start process? Since I have to re-calibrate PHD2 after I rotate my camera it seems a bit cumbersome that I have start the sequence (slew/center) in order for SGP to rotate the camera to the angle dictated in the F&M wizard before I slew the mount to calibrate guiding then back to the object. I know we have workflow tunnel vision sometimes so maybe there is a better way to do this.
This will also allow me to do panel flats before I image rather than the next day. Thanks for your help.
Mike
You have a few choices. Right click on the target name and you’ll see a drop-down open with a few choices like ‘slew to target’ and ‘Center Target and rotate camera’.
This in with SGP 4.5. It should be the same for 4.4.
Ah, the old right click. Im hoping the “rotate camera” selection would rotate to the desired sky angle without needed to center the object. I will give it a try. thanks
If you connect your rotator to PHP, it will know the rotation angle and you no longer need to re-calibrate after rotating.
Doesn’t that solve your problem, or am I misunderstanding something?
Eric, I do connect the rotator to PHD2, everything Ive ever seen says you recalibrate after rotating, I guess there is an “except” that I didnt know about. I will look into it.
The purpose of connecting the rotator to PHD is to eliminate the need to recalibrate.
PHD only reads the rotator’s position; it does not move the rotator.
Good luck.