Re: Firecapture autoguide with Gemini 1 ?
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Firecapture autoguider works just fine with Gemini-1.? You must of course have a working serial cable, ASCOM, and Gemini.net applet working.? PHD2 does not care of any orientation of the autoguide camera, but FireCapture does care. So, here is what you must do: 1. Rotate the planetary video camera so that the mount RA axis moving East West only moves the camera image left-right.? It need not be perfectly lined up but as good as you eyeball it.? ?Just use your hand controller and watch the planet motion ...should be left to right when you press East -West diamond buttons.? 2. In FireCapture, you must go to settings, and turn on the autoguide feature.? This should then have you select the mount, and you'll pick ASCOM and Gemini.net.? that will launch the Gemini.net applet.? You then set that to G (guide mode) [not C for Center mode or S for Slew mode] . 3. You must select a point in the planet...or perhaps it aitosejects the center of mass if the whole planet is in the frame.? I don't recall exactly!?? 4. You may find that FireCapture gets the E-W horizontal or N-S vertical guide dire tions wrong.? In FC there is in the Settings for Autoguide check iced to reverse the E-W and N-S directions.? You may have to get those checked or unchecked until the autoguiding works. 5. Practice using a star. Best of luck, Michael On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 4:26 AM David Pitre <farmerpitre@...> wrote: I have a G11 with Gemini 1. Does anyone have any experience using Firecapture to autoguide on planets? Is this possible? Anything else needed? |
Michael Herman