smart-underworld / seestar_alp

Complete Control and Automation for Seestar S50
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Manual exposure time control in Solar / Scenery #93

Open LeoDelizy opened 3 months ago

LeoDelizy commented 3 months ago

To transform the seestar into a powerful photographic tool, all we need is a way to set the exposure time manually in solar/sccenery mode and save FITs or Raw Video files ! There are two ways to approach this :

smart-underworld commented 2 months ago

I dug into this, and discovered that Seestar firmware limits the maximum exposure time to 200ms, so the limit is not only enforced in the software level, but the underlying firmware.

More promising approach is to use stargazing mode. Captured raw fits from 2s exposures. Will test out ways to bypass platesolve and tracking.