Guiding Star Simulator

[freiform]

Hi,

 

Is anyone aware of a guiding star simulator that lets me play around with guiding without access to the sky, i.e. cloudy, daytime, cold.. ?

An app that moves a bunch of pixels with specified speed and curvature? I stumbled over Star Guiding Emulator, but cannot get it to accept any changes to its settings. Without proper screen size/resolution, simulation won't work properly. I only can get the simulated star to move straight across the screen.

I probably could set up one mount for the purpose, while examining the other, but then I wouldn't know what effect(s) to attribut to which mount.

Any ideas?

 

Sven

[Merlin66]

I’ve used GSE successfully with my HEQ5.....can’t remember all the tweak settings but certainly worked OK.

 

[freiform]

Well, something's not right. The Software says 1.0.0.20, the manual that was packaged with the programm says 1.1. And it gives a procedure that I can not follow as buttons appear to be missing (e.g. the show button). Maybe they mixed up versions.

[spillage]

I have always thought it would be great to have something similar built into phd2.