I am trying to find the feature that allows us the visually frame a target and add it into the scheduler. At the moment, all I can do is to acquire/load up an object and it will place it dead center in the frame. What can I do if I want to offset it slightly (rule of thirds it for example) visually? Is there a way to do that?
I have tried looking in manuals, tutorials, videos, googling etc. and can't find anything; maybe I'm looking for the wrong terms. If anyone can shed some light on this that would be very much appreciated!
you can bring up the mount control - top right of the telescope control tab and manually position the scope with the arrow buttons. you can see where the scope points if you go to the kstars star map - the mount control will stay on top of the window. Then take a quick 5-30 sec pic at max ISO to see if you like the frame.
If your problem is to give the offset to the scheduler, you can actually give the job target whatever name suits you, and enter RA/DEC coordinates directly. So once you find the coordinates of the center you want to use in the star map, you can configure the scheduler manually. Just pay attention to your real fov rotation.
Thanks guys! So there's no way to do it offline or visually? i.e. before I connect my devices and doing it via a GUI automatically? If not, I guess working out the Ra/Dec is the closest to it.
- Take an initial frame on center. Decide how I want to offset from there, then find a star or object that
- Once re-framed, select the object at the center and right click->Copy Coordinates. Put these in a text editor. You want JNOW.
- In the Data menu, select "Manually add a deep-sky object" In that dialog, name the object. I use "PRJ-<object name>" so I can easily find any items I added for a project.
- Put in the JNOW coordinates. YES - it says to put in J2000. Doesn't work. Must be a bug. Use JNOW.
- Save it/click OK
Now when you go to Find - search for PRJ and your object will come up framed and centered as you wanted.