2.6.11dev5 release and the new Calibration Assistant

[Bruce Waddington]

We just released the next dev release for PHD2, 2.6.11dev5.  Among other changes, It has updates to both the QHY and ToupTek camera interfaces along with the first release of a new Calibration Assistant.   People who have difficulties getting good calibrations should try the new CA feature and see if it helps.  It is intended to eliminate most of the operational mistakes that usually lead to poor calibration results.  Documentation on the new feature can be found here:

https://openphdguiding.org/man-dev/Tools.htm#Calibration_Assistant

Users who have learned to use the Drift Alignment tool for slewing their scope to a good calibration location can now use the Calibration Assistant and take advantage of its other capabilities.

Regards,

Bruce

[Brian Valente]

And just to follow up this new release announce, dev releases are available for download here (in addition to any auto update settings you have in the software)

https://openphdguiding.org/development-snapshots/

Brian

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[Tony Cooper]

Can you change the name of the "Recal" button? Does "Recal" mean recalculate, recalibrate, or recal (which is similar to sync for Astro-Physics mounts). An extra letter e.g. Recalc might do the trick.

[alan]

Hello, 

I just started using Dev 5.  I see from the log file that it is using a newer QHY SDK driver, however, I don't see any changes in the "interface" to the camera, i.e. I don't see any new options or ways to configure the camera such as BPP, ROI, etc.  Only the same settings as before, e.g. gain, and binning.