Can non-admin folks see the results of this poll in real time?
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My three selections.
Hm… OK, I’ll see if there is a setting that can make the results available to everyone prior to closing the poll.
That spoils the fun. Think about what Brexit would have been like if people knew how close it was 
I choose ‘Sequence merging tool’, and I hope other two enhances:
- Improve the stability of cooperation with PHD.
- More robust recovery function.
Thank you very much for your hard work~!
Please actually select those things in the poll above, writing about them down here will not allow your votes to affect the voting turnout.
There’s no option for none of the above, which is what I’d vote for.
Most of the features will only satisfy a small number of people with more specialised needs. Not having additional features makes the application easier for everyone to understand and use. It also makes it more reliable, the code has to handle the additional features and even if they are not used the additional complexity can make it less reliable.
Sometimes less is more. All IMO of course.
Also a valid opinion. If you want to vote for existing features + stabilization instead of features above you can do that here in the comments.
I’m sorry if this is duplicative, but I have been travelling. I just wanted to comment on the “recenter every xxx” request since the wording of the poll sort of implies it might not be too important. I thought I would explain why this would be extremely useful to me. I am using a mount that does not require guiding for modest focal lengths, a 10Micron GM1000HPS. I am very thankful that SGP implements the direct mount guider to allow my subs to be dithered by SGP. That is great!. The problem is that while the mount is good enough to permit 20 min or longer subs with round stars, over the course of a long imaging session, say 8 hours, there is drift. On a recent image collection I had about an 8% drift on one axis, so I had to crop 8%. Normally this is not a huge deal, but in this case given my image scale and the size of the target I had framed it very precisely and this amount of cropping was almost enough to harm the image. There is a way to get around this, but it is not very convenient and since it duplicates data it is error prone. I break the imaging into multiple identical targets that are about 2 hours long and that way I can force SGP to recenter as each target starts. While this is certainly useable, it is hardly ideal. There may well be far more important features, but since on the surface it seems this should not be too hard given that SGP already has like auto refocus that interrupt imaging on a time/frame count basis to run a routine, I thought I explain why I (and I’m sure others using high end mounts) would appreciate this facility.
That’s not what I meant to imply… I was indicating that I can’t remember why folks are asking for it and if somebody could refresh my memory (like you did).
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OK… Crude representation here (will try and represent it better elsewhere). Taking the difficulty of implementation and popularity (votes), I have produced a weighted version of the features above. This is a more realistic sorting of features if / when we decide to do them:
I wonder with the third suggestion to disconnect all equipment if it might be possible to select which equipment or all to disconnect should this go ahead? I’m thinking in particular of being able to disconnect the camera but keep tracking etc., on. This could be used to switch cameras.
I see my favorite (multi-camera) is demoted due to difficulty. OTOH, it is an add-on so maybe being an income producer will give it a boost. I do have to say that of all of them, multi-camera is the only one I would be willing to pay extra for (and quite a bit at that given that it is an equipment value multiplier)!
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This is with respect to the “full module” which includes:
- Workflow to launch and register slave instances of SGPro
- Dithering coordination
- Target change coordination
- Target event sync across scope sequences
- Support for disparate target capture (no target sync)
- Recovery mode coordination
- Meridian flip coordination
- Auto focus coordination (when one scope is OAG)
- UI work to properly disable a bunch of equipment control on “slave” instances
So… that in mind, there may be a version of this that is WAY less sophisticated and could be released earlier. Not exactly sure how or what it would be, but would likely just encapsulate coordinated dithering and then we could improve on the rest of it incrementally.
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Yes, just making sure there was no dithering during either camera exposure would be way good enough for a start. It sounds like a good approach to do it in bits then maybe have the (probably no-charge beta) expire once a sufficiently sophisticated paid version is ready.
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