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It will wait for a capture to finish then send it to AstroTortilla.

I now press the target looking symbol on the mount controls in SharpCap (bottom left symbol).

This should show more detail and give you some confidence that the plate solving should know where it is in the sky.

When you’re happy that there are some good stars in your view, take a 15-30 second exposure.

You will have a control appear in SharpCap now on the right side that allows you to control your mount.

If not, go to File… Hardware and under Mounts, select your EQMOD profile.

Back in SharpCap I ensure my EQMOD mount is connected.

Tip: I have my camera set to do a 2 second exposure for focusing for this beginning part of my setup process and choose a familiar object or area in the sky so you can visually look at where your scope is roughly pointing is correct. You’ll have an idea if this is good enough and where you expect…

I have “ Automatically downsample large images when solving” and have –sigma set to 20 but I’ve had to tweak these settings now and again if it fails to solve.

In the Path to “solve-field” tool entry (which should be auto detected in SharpCap) make sure it says c:\cygwin\bin\solve-field if you went for the defaults for your AstroTortilla installation.

In SharpCap choose the File menu then select SharpCap Settings… Plate Solving.

EQMOD Controlled Mount and correctly polar aligned.

For this I’ll be explaining using AstroTortilla that does the plate solving, and SharpCap to do the imaging of the night sky that then gets fed to AstroTortilla, and Cartes du Ciel for the navigation of the sky. Various programs exist that will do plate solving. For those transitioning from using a handset to computer controlled, see this step as being roughly the same topic as a 1-star align: validating the position of where your mount is pointing so that you can have the confidence that when you slew around to another object, it will be centered in view. Plate solving is the action of resolving what you see in the sky to match where your (computer controlled) mount thinks it is in the sky.