PolarAlignMax

[froggy]

Hi,

I have used PAM in the past and was very happy with the result. However I had to move the mount and I needed to polar align it properly so I started using PAM.

Everything worked fine until the software calculated the error.

No white square on the image to put a star in.

The image kept being downloaded even after "continous" was unchecked

I restarted the laptop many times, checked all the connexions and everything seem to be fine.

The camera I use to polar align is an Atik 16ic.

I would love to be able to use this program to polar align but unfortunately I don't know what I am doing wrong.

Any help will be very well appreciated.

Many thanks

Vince

[SteveL]

Hi Vince

Have you tried changing the line width that is drawn on the Maxin images? If you are displaying the images at less than 100%, the lines can "disappear". That option is found on the setiup tab, under centering -> line width.

Dumb question... and I have done this many many times... you have stopped maxim from taking images before you start the PAM run?

[froggy]

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for the information.

The line width was set at 1 I changed it to 5 which is the max. I will check it out on the next clear night.

Vince

[mcrossley]

Yeah, Maxim is dumb when it comes to resizing images, at 50% scale it just drops every other pixel - if your box happens to be on that row/column it disappears Oh for a bit of interpolation, it's a pain with OSC raw matrix images too.

[froggy]

Hi Steve,

Sorry to be a pain but could you please let me know how I can adjust the line width that is drawn on the Maxin images.

I have changed the hair width option in the setup tab in PAM but that does not make any difference.

Many thanks for your help.

Vince

[SteveL]

Sorry Vince, that was the only option I knew about.... I havent used that option myself, it was something I remembered from another post on the PAM mail list

[froggy]

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for that.

Kind regards

Vince

[daz]

Yeah, Maxim is dumb when it comes to resizing images, at 50% scale it just drops every other pixel - if your box happens to be on that row/column it disappears Oh for a bit of interpolation, it's a pain with OSC raw matrix images too.

Thats interesting to know! I 've had this issue before and didn't realise what was going on!!