What's coming in 4.0?

No, because there is not a exhaustive list as we’ll be continually updating V4 from now on vs holding back features for major release. V4 is likely to be our last version number of SGP that we release…that does not mean that we stop developing it…that just means that we continuously will push features into V4 and will not create a V5 as there is now no need. The initial release of V4 will include:

  • 64bit
  • ASCOM Switch Support

It is not a particularly large release other than the 64bit support.

This has nothing to do the bit depth of sensors. Currently SGP is a 32 bit application and as such can only access a limited amount of memory (about 4gigs). Moving to a 64bit application will allow SGP to access more memory as well as interacting with 64bit drivers (probably the main benefit). This means that things will generally be faster and have less issues with large camera arrays.

Other things that we have discussed for SGP4:

  • Coordinated Dither between multiple instances
  • Auto Focus Wizard to help setup auto focus
  • Auto Focus targets to allow you to slew off of your imaging target and run autofocus (this is already supported for manual focus…this would extend this behavior to auto focus triggers)
  • Performance improvements around download/save/display of images.

Jared

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