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Originally Posted by Tandum
Pete, I had a play with skyx at pmrid's place last weekend. To do a tpoint run, I think you will need to set skyx to use maxim as the camera so skyx has camera control then run a tpoint mapping session from skyx.
We got skyx to connect to maxim and the camera, but it hung when doing an exposure. We got it to start ccdsoft for camera control but it wouldn't startup a camera connection. I don't think he has got that going yet either 
I also read somewhere that you may need a larger star cattledog like usno for solving to work as expected. I don't know how true this is, we didn't get that far. |
Robin
I was able to do a manual TPoint run. No issues with it. I used the "Centre" command in Maxim to get the relevant target star centred before adding it as a TPoint star.
I understand that you need to use the TSX camera add on to do an automated TPoint calibration run. However, I was trying to use AAG TPoint Mapper which will automate a TPoint calibration run provided you have the full Pinpoint loaded. For some reason it would fail to platesolve - but when I did it manually in Maxim - there were no issues. I suspect there is a setting in Mapper that I have yet to get right. I can platesolve also in TSX.
Here is the link to AAG -
http://www.aagware.eu/aag_software.htm#MAP
I was keen to use Maxim rather than mucking about with another add on for TSX.
I didn't have any issues with the camera hanging - but I was using Maxim not TSX for exposures.
I have the GSC 1.1 catalogue downloaded from the Pinpoint site.
Hope that helps
Pete