PHD Guiding Changelog

What's new in PHD Guiding 1.14.0

May 13, 2013
  • Initial QHY5-II support
  • Fixed ST4 onboard connection bug
  • Now can save / restore window position

New in PHD Guiding 1.13.7a (May 13, 2013)

  • Tweak to ASCOM mount's for mounts that PulseGuide but don't support IsPulseGuiding

New in PHD Guiding 1.13.6 (May 13, 2013)

  • Tweak of plist for Retina display
  • Updates to make display intensity more stable, particularly w/darks
  • Will no longer flag large-motion errors if Dec guiding is disabled to allow for drift.
  • Rewrite of the crosshair routine
  • Added the following server commands: MSG_FLIPRACAL (16), MSG_GETSTATUS (17), MSG_STOP (18), MSG_LOOP (19), MSG_STARTGUIDING (20)
  • Added ability to abort during calibration
  • Auto selecting previously used camera in camera chooser
  • Fixed bug in auto-find-star routine
  • Server calls to auto-find-star now work when paused or guiding (so you can pause, slew, auto-find, resume)
  • iNova PL-M support added (Windows)
  • Users won't see too much, but this is a very significant pre-release. The guts of PHD Guiding have been open source for some time, but now the full releases have gone open source as well via a branch off of Open PHD Guiding (the "craig" branch). This is the beginning of a real shift in how PHD Guiding is developed as programmers across the world can now not only get the basic guts of PHD, but a 98% complete version (some hardware drivers cannot be included).

New in PHD Guiding 1.13.5 (May 13, 2013)

  • "None" camera added to list and calling the camera connect dialog up and pressing cancel will no longer disconnect
  • New server command (id=14) to auto-find star (same as pulling down this from the menu)
  • Updated Atik to latest library
  • Automatic detection of shutter and use of it when taking dark frames (SBIG, SX, ASCOM, Atik in place)
  • Fixed bug in Ctrl-Click not letting you set the Dec color