A Night Out Part 2 - Or How I Use Software To Do Astrophotography 

Oh, my that means a lot. The video was meant to give beginners a hand. Thank you for your comment.

Oh my god, I am overwhelmed with joy. I am so pleased that you find it educational. That was the intention. Though I have been told I maybe spell it out to much, like talking to a child. That has never been my intention. I only just want everyone, to overcome the steep learning curve, that almost overcame me.

@@skatter3112 I watch a lot of other videos that presume knowledge of the subject they use a lot of acronyms. Your set up videos are my go to source to make my equipment work correctly. Mainly because I also have a Meade LX90 .

@@leoncorns1450 , Im am truly honored.

Oh my, I do not know what to say. I am so thrilled about your critic. Thank you very much, for the kind reply.

@@skatter3112 no really. I mean it. You should do more of this. This hobby is full of headaches and pain (the cold weather!), it helps to have someone like you show the way. Best wishes!

@@Aniskywalkervader Thank you, very humbly

Thanks bud :-)

It has platesolving, and it works like a charm.

If you load your images to DSS it shows. I even think you can rightclick your files and look under properties.

Thank you. No I am not that much into the settings. I use the defaults with a calibration.

@@skatter3112 Thanks for the fast reply! Are you connected to your Hand Controller? or into your mount on a Aux. Port?

@@cstevens6692 always to the hc. If you use the aux, you will need an adaptor. Plus you loose choord readouts from your mount, because you will then use st4

The guidecam is focused using the naked eye. Focus in a guidetrain is not critical. Thank you for watching my videoes and great thanks for commenting, it gives me energy to make new ones. The next will be a deeper insight to Sharpcap.

@@skatter3112 Thanks Klaus, I'm just getting back into astronomy after 16+ years so everything is like new again for me lol, look forward to your next video on Sharpcap and any others you do as they really are very informative, thanks again

@@lesbooth2391, you are welcome

I am glad you find it helpfull. Yes it would be 60s per frame or sub or picture or what you prefer to call it. Later development of Sharpcap has a build in sequence generator I think, here you can set your number of frames. I always just shoot till I cant wait anymore to see a result. When Livestacking you just continue till you cant anymore (HD space, Time or patience) When Livestacking your frames can be saved individually to make a session in DSS or any other stacking software. Hope you find the answers helpfull aswell :-) Do please watch the rest of the series, maybe youll find gold here aswell.

@@skatter3112 That's great Klaus. That's cleared up all I have at this time. I'll be very soon shooting for the stars :-)). Having recently moved up from Eindhoven to Scotland has given me more impetus to continue with the clearer skies now available to me - when it's not raining of course :-))). Again, many thanks for your help.

@@pauldeakin8227 your welcome

Do you have the Ascom drivers installed?

I havr the same scope what driver are u using. I cant get mine to connect. I have ascom drivers

You both need the drivers for your specific telescope. The LX200 has its own drivers. On top of that you both will need the ascom platform. Google search for ascom platform, and you will find it. On the ascom platform website youll also find the drivers. ascom-standards.org/Downloads/Index.htm here you will find the drivers

@@skatter3112 I have a lx90 and I have the ascom drivers but still having issues with the telescope. Which driver are you using. I have several selections to choose from.

@@michaelbenitez3273the driver can be found here: bitbucket.org/cjdskunkworks/meadeautostar497/downloads/ Remember to use the aux port on the handset to make it work. Not the aux port on the base.

I hope so to Vin :-)