Roger, it shouldn't make any difference if the target is out of your field of view when doing a plate solve.
If the solve fails, it may be caused by the star catalogue your using, or it's outside the pointing error setting in CCDCommander.
I've had up to a 1200 arc sec pointing error with my LX200GPS, but it still plate solved.
If you have any questions I'll be happy to help.
Regards
Vince G
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Originally Posted by rogerg
I use CCD Commander, but it doesn't help when the object is outside the camera's FOV all together 
My camera's FOV is very small (13 arc min x 7 arc min - or there abouts). At last try, slewing short distances (up to 45 degree) isn't a problem, however generally the pointing accuracy isn't good enough to rely upon automated plate solve's, which is exactly my problem.
When my scope is up and running fully again I plan to correct the PA which will get it back to within the FOV all over the sky, but that still often isn't enough for a plate solve for my setup, because of the small FOV (at least that's all I can put it down to).
Roger. |