Better the young child with potential, than the occasionally ill-mannered young adult that thinks it knows everything. Usually when I have a line of folks watching my laptop at a Star Party for an image to appear. But one bit of PHD2's charming personality is that (on my system at least) it tends to freak out for reasons unknown and claim that I changed some camera parameter or other, forcing me to rebuild the dark library and recalibrate the world. Its guide function is not yet mature, and I'm working with the author to track down an anomaly. That said, I've moved from PHD2 to the new functionality in CCDciel, the session manager I use for most everything else.
It's the standard bearer for autoguiding. Why not PHD2? It's mature, multi-platform, functions well, is easily adapted, and widely used (so lots of resources, some of which are actually helpful). Since OP had his question answered, why PHD2? I've since moved to doing all that within NINA and ASTAP works great, for me. It didn't like other applications being connected to the scope.
It would run and sync the scope, and then I would re-slew to the target with Stellarium. When I was using All Sky Plate Solver, I was using it stand-alone. Still, it doesn't like badly trailing stars, so I make sure I have a long settle time with the scope - 8 or 10 seconds and I do an autofocus before it gets used. It's fairly tolerant of non-round stars and is blazingly fast. It doesn't like trailing stars.ĪSTAP - This one just worked for me. It worked almost every time, but it took anywhere from 20-40 seconds. And, it would take forever to fail - like minutes.Īll Sky Plate Solver - This was the 3rd plate solver I tried. It seemed to want between 300 and 900 stars. This was in my early days of doing plate solving, so I was probably doing something wrong, but I never got any indication of what went wrong, just that it failed.Īstro Tortilla - It would succeed maybe 1 out of 3 tries. Platesolver2 - I was never able to get it to work at all. I've tried Platesolver2, All Sky Plate Solver, Astro Tortilla and ASTAP on the acquisition computer.
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