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On 24/10/2022 at 13:13, Nicola Hannah Butterfield said:

Not sure, but this was a light artefact when I imaged Uranus last Oct

So maybe something like that.

I think this is fascinating, it actually looks like it’s meant to be there 

For Jupiter you would have to select live mode for a continuous loop of exposures 

Just means it will take one single exposure of whatever settings you have , length gain etc whenever you click the capture button

Crikey the ghosts of telescopes past are trying to come through!

Stab in the dark but Is there a chance there is electrical interference? 
Edit, just read the above findings from your darks and flat so ignore this post them findings will most certainly be the cause of the issue 

Hopefully everything is sorted and working for you

Whatever it was it was spiralling 

Did you set a temperature for the camera like -5c for example and turn cooling on In the software? If you can,try It on another computer or laptop, also try adjusting the usb limit back down to 40 in the camera settings in asi studio 

I’m totally baffled by this now, I Carnt see Nina getting it wrong if the co ordinates are correct, somthing is different between the mounts co ordinates and what Nina’s coordinates are that’s the only thing I can think of now, if it was me I would got back to the very beginning and set the software up again, you say your using the synscan app I’ve never used it but does the app agree with Nina on co-ordinates and any other info?

The reversed vignette in the resulting image suggests that your flats are too bright and looking at the histogram on the flat itself looks like it’s too bright, it’s clipped on the right hand side or am I looking at this wrong? 
whst duration we’re your flats? Did you take any dark flats or use bias to calibrate the flats?

That’s a really REALLY good first image, it’s much better than any first image I got, what’s even more impressive is there’s no calibration frames either, you can darken the background a little bit though if you want abit of criticism but apart from that you should be extremely proud of that 

Also what gain are you using? 
exposure lengths? 
Capture program? 
we need abit more info before we can start to troubleshoot 

Do you have a 12v power supply plugged in along with the usb cable? 

Blimey that’s abit shoddy of skywatcher I hope you get it replaced 

50 minutes ago, Paul M said:

I have 2 on my 10in Newt and one on the finder/Guider. No problems with them in the couple of years I had them.

I use their own 4 channel dew controller also. 

Sounds like something I’d be interested in for my Newtonian have you got a link for them? 

1 hour ago, scotty38 said:

I think this is telling, do you see no astap errors at all, do you have astap set up ok, databases installed etc?

To be honest the preference from the devs will be to use astap I fear anyway....

That’s a good shout I.e the Astap databases, but then wouldn’t his plate solve fail even on a single image and not just a mosaic he says it works on doing single pane images 

4 minutes ago, Likwid said:

NINA has a Discord server, so I may jump on there when I get home to see what they have to say about "Recenter Image". If I find out anything good, I will let everyone know. Thank you all so much for the help today, I appreciate it.

👍 

It’s got me stumped too, if re center  disappearing is a bug it won’t be long till it’s fixed we will have to wait and see 

I’m wondering now it’s it’s a bug and re center disappearing is a mistake 

1 minute ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

Me neither so probably have an update to do, what version are you on ?

Steve

Version 2.0 HF2 just updated it 10 mins ago 

Starting to baffle me now this is, I’ve not done any imaging for a while and I’m abit peed off that re center has disappeared 

It doesn’t exist on my Nina either ive got the latest version too, but have you clicked load image once you have moved your frame about on the framing assist 

2 minutes ago, newbie alert said:

Sounds weird... Just to check the mount is tracking shoot a 30 sec, 60 sec sub.. any mount should be able to handle that.. if your subs are trailed then fix that issue first

Have you tried a different framing assistant, see if that is any different?  What are you using for a platesolver?

His stars are nice and round in that plate solved image so trailing can be taken out the equation I think

24 minutes ago, Likwid said:

Ok, I found my submissions on Astrometry.net from last night. This is the successful Plate Solve image for NGC 6992, along with a screenshot of what I had in Framing Assistant. Where I have NGC 6992 in Framing Assistant is far from where it ended up in the "Successful" plate solve. Also, since Astrometry marked the image correctly, it knows exactly what it is looking at. All the noise aside, there are perfectly round stars in the image. I should say that the screenshot from NINA is not from last night, I put in the approximate rotation that NINA determined from last night to show as close as I could to what I was framing it as last night.

That’s weird because that plate solved image looks like it’s in the middle of the two panels if you get what I mean

sorry but are you saying you go straight to setting  a simple sequence then plate solve? Have you tried going straight to framing assist first getting the frame as you want it then plate solve then set as sequence? 
pardon my confusion