Seestar mosaic sub framing issues

Support@Seestar

wVU1j6V6 The team is already aware of this issue, and changes are planned to address it.
Just not sure about the timing of the change.

Lilo

wVU1j6V6
It's definitely a bug. Discussed many times. But nothing has changed.

Support@Seestar

Lilo 🤷

Daemon42

Lilo Hey, at least they're talking about doing something about it. Before it was just "that's how it works." period.

Support@Seestar

Daemon42 You are right, but the feedback I have received so far is that there is no way to optimize it for the time being. Currently, we can only use the "Auto-enhance after Goto" function.

Daemon42

Support@Seestar It's not an optimization. There's no logical reason why that setting should have anything to do with the BUG which makes it completely ignore the user's selected frame rotation. The frame rotation should always be respected.

Lilo

😁

Support@Seestar

Daemon42
Got it, thank you.

Eventhorizon

I there any kind of workaround? I have tried to properly frame Andromeda for the last 1.5 hours with minimal success. Tried everything suggested and I can see that the dust lanes are pointed in the wrong direction. I'd really like t be able to set the scope to capture all night, even after the object crosses the zenith, as a mosaic, properly framed. Anyone have any tips? I am trying for a 10 hour integration and that is not possible in longer intervals with no way to know how the mosaic is going to be framed?

Support@Seestar

Eventhorizon
You can use Alt-Az mode or enable the “Execute enhancement after Goto” feature in Advanced Settings.

Lilo

Support@Seestar
Alt/Az for 10hrs integration??? Sounds like a joke.

Eventhorizon

Support@Seestar I didn’t buy $200 in equipment to use alt/az. I’ve enabled enhance after goto and it does nothing to correct the problem. At least now I know it’s nothing I’m doing wrong. You guys are pretty good at adding features and correcting things. So I’ll get 3 hour or so segments of mosaics and use EQ for objects I can center with an off centered box making it literally impossible to use eq mode in any situation until there is a fix I guess? 😂😂😂

ZWO: Here. This is eq mode. Now set it up and good luck finding something that is perfectly aligned with the 50 degree angled box it gives you”

Simple fix. Open the level calibration to accept the degree we are shooting in as level and the machine will work correctly. Bubble that up to the people who didn’t think of it please.

Support@Seestar

Eventhorizon
Lilo
A temporary alternative, I have reported it and the team is evaluating it.

Daemon42

Eventhorizon "I’ve enabled enhance after goto and it does nothing to correct the problem. " Has not been my experience. I've always had this turned on, and when I set the rotation for Andromeda it started capturing subframes at the correct angle.
But what I found was that it was so slow with any rotation angle other than 0 or 90 degrees (even if only zoomed 1.6x or so to just cover andromeda) that I found it was better to just select 2x zoom with either 0 or 90 degrees to cover the whole thing and more, and go. Like so.

It has to do with the way the sub frames are setup to overlap especially around the edges. It's faster to overlap a bunch of straight sides, than a whole bunch of corners.

Eventhorizon

Support@Seestar Another possible solution would be to add horizontal calibration to EQ mode somehow. I don't know. I have been racking my brain in my sleep to make this a reality because this scope is very powerful when utilized correctly.

Lilo

Eventhorizon
How? There are no horizontal plane in EQ, scope is tilted.