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How Can I Plate Solve & Sync With Starry Night Pro 7? (Answer: Read On, Thank You Jeffery!)

Is there a way to Plate Solve & sync Starry Night 7 telescope control?

There are numerous YouTube videos out there that show how to do this using other ASCOM Planetarium Programs such as Stellarium. Can't find anything with regards to SN.

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    Keiron Smith

    What plate solving software are you using?  What OS are you running?  What mount are you controlling?

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    Jeffery Best

    Thanks for the response Keiron. I was able to get plate solving to function last night with my particular work flow. Sharing as follows so others may benefit ......

     

    - CPWI (Celestron App) to do initial alignment of scope

    - Adjust focus & photograph using BYEOS

    - Plate solve & sync scope with AstroTortilla which uses BYEOS for photo capture

    - Launch Starry Night & connect to scope. Start hop using SN

    - Leave both SN & CPWI running

    - Continue to plate solve & sync on multiple targets in order to refine star alignment

     

    This all seems to work great as both CPWI & SN never got out of sync.

    PS...…….I'm using a Windows 10 laptop & a Celestron CGEM.

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    Keiron Smith

    An excellent result, Jeffrey!  Thank you for sharing your success story in our community forums!

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