Live plate solving

emalafeew

I recently bought an ASIAir Mini believing it could do live plate solving, to correct tracking of long multi-shot exposures without a guide scope. I don't see any such ability in the latest ASIAir Android app, though google's AI summary says it can which hopefully isn't a hallucination. Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to do automatic or manual plate solving and sync during live or autorun modes, and if not, is there a demand for it? Sharpcap has been able to do it since last year.

PMTeam@ZWO

emalafeew Thank you for your suggestion. I will give your feedback to our development team.

Corsair

I have a HEQ5 Pro mount, C8 SCT with f/6.3 Focal Reducer and an ASI294MC Pro cooled to 0°C.

I use Live Mode for Live Stacking for unguided EAA spending anywhere up to 30 minutes on a target using exposures up to 30 seconds.

It works great.

I have an ASIAIR Plus 32GB running firmware 2.1-10.74.

emalafeew

Corsair Thanks sounds like a nice setup! I do short exposure EAA with a 6" dob and a 5" Mak on alt-az goto mounts, which need tracking correction every few minutes to keep targets centered on an ASI585MC.

Sounds like plate-solving during live stacking isn't possible yet with ASIAir. Without it, I need to switch from Live to Preview mode, take a pic, plate-solve and sync/goto. Worse than that interruption is that my live stack gets blown away each time.

ZWO does it already in the SeeStar S50, I just want to do the same with my bigger scopes.

Corsair

emalafeew So, for unguided, it comes down to your mount's ability to track a target.

What mount are you using? Is it an alt/az mount?

Also - just tagging @Tech@ZWO and @PMTeam@ZWO in this as they are the ZWO members.

I would also recommend logging a support ticket: https://support.astronomy-imaging-camera.com/

emalafeew

Thanks! I'm happy to do any beta testing if ZWO is interested in adding this feature.

I have two alt-az mounts I'd like to do this with, a Skywatcher Virtuoso GTI and a Celestron NexStar SLT.