More Astro s'ware widgets... [Archive]

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JohnH

26-07-2006, 02:52 PM

Polar Align with a WebCam....

http://wcs.ruthner.at/index-en.htm

Push Here Dummy autoguiding....

http://www.stark-labs.com/phdguiding.html

Disclaimer - due to cloudy wx in Sydney I have not been able to use either of these tools yet -but they sound promising....

Enjoy - and if you use them please share you experiances - I will...

Astroman

26-07-2006, 02:58 PM

Loooks good thanks for the toys :)

JohnH

31-07-2006, 10:38 AM

Here are my initial results :

WCS - does not support my camera - unable to test
PHD - does not appear to work with ASCOM/Ethernet/SPHINX combo, other users reporting ok guiding with USB/ST4 setups but the software is slow. You may need to click the buttons for >1 sec to get a response.