[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by frolinmod

Another problem with the MX has been that it's clear SB never tested it in the Southern Hemisphere. That's assuming they even have a test suite. They probably don't have a dedicated software QA person. Their development methodology is rather suspect to me. As with many small companies, I don't think they actually follow a formalized software development methodology.

For image link? Huh? What are you smoking there?

its in the T-point add on user guide. There is a reference there to set it up. Perhaps it refers back to the Sky X manual section on Image Link setup.

That's the pointing sample criterion advanced setting that was alluded to previously. It needs to be increased, especially if you have a scope with a low focal length or a camera with a large chip. The default pointing sample criterion appears to cater to those of us with long focal length instruments and small chips.


Thanks I'll check that. What I did was swap cameras to 8300 chipped camera which it preferred!

You are referring to this?: Tools->Preferences->Advanced. Scroll down. It's the "Bad pointing sample criteria (degrees):" entry
Chris V pointed this out to me last week and I am sure it will help with the 16803 chipped camera.


Correct, TheSkyX image link wants to know your guesstimate of the actual image scale, not the 1x1 binning image scale, the actual image scale. Entering 0 and letting image link figure it out is often better than guessing. I don't remember TheSky6 being any different, but it's been many years since I used TheSky6 on a regular basis.

As I recall the Sky 6 you enter the 1x1 binning image scale in t-point and not the image scale at higher binnings. SkyX I think uses the binned image scale.

Huh? It's clear as day: Display->Camera

Yep that's it. Thanks.

Second camera tab? Hmm. Maybe you're referring to the automated calibration settings and the fact that although you can set the exposure there, you can't set binning there. It uses the binning as set in the camera tab and if the camera tab is not being displayed, then you'll not know what binning you've set there. Yes, that is confusing. They should let us set the binning in the automated calibration settings. Please do me a favor and suggest this as an enhancement. It's already been suggested, but continues to fall on some apparently deaf ears over at SB! (Just wait until you realize that other settings, such as which filter you're using, are also set only in the camera tab. Good idea to have the camera tab displayed.)

2nd camera comes off clicking the gear symbol on the telescope tab.
It doesn't have binning or cooling. You have to check the autosave though as Image Link won't work unless its on a saved image.

When you find an area of the manual that has incomplete information, doesn't have information that you think it should or could include information you think would be helpful, document the additional information in detail and post it as documentation errata for Daniel Bisque to add to the manual. Post it publicly on one of the SB support forums so that all may benefit (via search if not directly). If everyone would do this, then the manual would get better very quickly and the newbie frustration level would decrease (for those that actually read the manuals).

Good idea.

I'm starting to get the impression that a contributing factor to your MX frustrations is your TheSkyX learning curve frustration. Those are two different things that should not be confused.

Not really. I have no trouble reading and applying the manual. I do have trouble when the manual does not contain everything you need to know to achieve success. Also the slipping gears is nothing to do with my understanding of the software. The PEC curve not loading is early days as I have only tried once (again exactly per the manual). I see on the SB support site others have had trouble with this. There was an update on Sky X that implied this was corrected. I now have that so hopefully that is all. My CCDSoft preferences have Sky X pro checked as I saw this mentioned on SB site earlier and I think you mentioned it in earlier posts, so that is not it.

Thanks for your post as you could easily bring up something I have missed.

Cheers,

Greg