Hello,
I ordered a Scops with the goal to always have perfectly focused stars with my OAG when the filter changes. This is especially important for times of bad seeing, where the slightly defocused stars have low SNR to be guided on. I am guiding with Metaguide so guide star FWHM is really important.
My question is does someone of you have the scops integrated in Nina with filter offsets? So when the filter changes to a new offset, the scops also adapts a new focus point to achieve perfect focus again?
As far as I can tell NINA is only able to connect to one focuser per instance, which means you can use your EAF or the scops but not both.
There may be workarounds with two instances and scripts but I could not find a guide or explanation. I am thinking about writing mini scripts that are executed on filter change which tell Unity's API to set the Scops to a specific focus point. However, I don't know if this will work.
That's why ask in this thread if someone managed to get it working and might tell us how he or she did it.
Appreciate the feedback
CS
Tobi
I ordered a Scops with the goal to always have perfectly focused stars with my OAG when the filter changes. This is especially important for times of bad seeing, where the slightly defocused stars have low SNR to be guided on. I am guiding with Metaguide so guide star FWHM is really important.
My question is does someone of you have the scops integrated in Nina with filter offsets? So when the filter changes to a new offset, the scops also adapts a new focus point to achieve perfect focus again?
As far as I can tell NINA is only able to connect to one focuser per instance, which means you can use your EAF or the scops but not both.
There may be workarounds with two instances and scripts but I could not find a guide or explanation. I am thinking about writing mini scripts that are executed on filter change which tell Unity's API to set the Scops to a specific focus point. However, I don't know if this will work.
That's why ask in this thread if someone managed to get it working and might tell us how he or she did it.
Appreciate the feedback
CS
Tobi