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Indicate max exposure time for moving objects #2789
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Does this feature assume that the telescope is installed on a tracking equatorial mount? This should be mentioned somewhere in the docs. Also, if this assumption is true, then the text should only appear for equatorial mount when the selected object is being tracked, or the computation of max exposure time should include the diurnal motion. |
Yes, tracked mount that has been well aligned against axes, is well guided, and is in an altitude range to not suffer from differential refraction, sure. It estimates duration of motion on the sphere against the stars to not exceed 1 pixel (IIRC). 15 years ago nobody would have assumed otherwise. But you can also have motorized tracking on an alt-az mount when you also counterrotate the frame, so "equatorial" is not the criterium. |
Our "Equatorial mount" checkbox controls whether the frame rotates automatically around its optical axis. Regardless of the mount axes, if the frame remains upright, as is currently rendered in stellarium with "Equatorial mount" unchecked, it can't have the same max exposure time as with equatorial mount, even when tracking an object. But still, the whole this feature is absolutely undocumented AFAICT, so I couldn't even learn about any assumptions that this rather ambiguous label implies. |
It appears that all frame labels are not documented. My hope with in-master guide sources was that features are documented by the respective developers as they are added. :-/ |
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This pull request contain the implementation (optional feature) of indicate the max exposure time for the moving objects within Oculars plugin
Fixes #2752
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