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PHD2 v2.6.5dev6

25 October 2018

- New Meridian flip calibration tool
- New: ToupTek camera support for Windows; using ToupTek SDK version 30.13059.2018.1003
- Guiding Assistant: improved min-move recommendations
- Guide camera pixel scale is now shown in the new profile wizard and the stats window
- Added a button to reset camera gain to camera's default value
- Altair cameras: update to SDK version 30.13010.2018.0926
- Altair cameras: new option to use older SDK for 2015/2016 era cameras
- Altair cameras: prevent connecting to the wrong camera when reconnecting after a disconnect
- Lowpass2: insure guide pulse never goes in the wrong direction; more debug logging
- Fix glitchy display when changing profiles by clearing the displayed image
- New profile wizard: center the dialog on the screen, not on the gear dialog
- Windows: fix PHD2 crash when opening the mount setup dialog after the RPC server has been terminated
- Fix bug in ProfileWiz - camera properties were being displayed on AuxMount tab if camera was Simulator
- Ensure backlash compensation is enabled only when Dec guide mode is Auto
- INDI: fix problem connecting Aux Mount that does not provide guiding properties
- Event server: send calibration step events
- Updated Traditional Chinese Translation
- Help file: add help for too-little east/south moves in calibration; fix broken link re focusing with Star Profile tool

Download.

http://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.5dev6-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.5dev7

29 January 2019

- Guiding Assistant: new feature to review prior G.A. run results
- Guiding Assistant: avoid too large min-move recommendations
- Guiding Assistant: check for poor camera focus
- Guiding Assistant: recommend binning when image scale is too low
- Calibration review: show calibration side of pier
- Add menu items for toolbar button functions
- Backlash compensation: better resiliency against stiction
- Dark libraries: fix problem loading the wrong dark frame for exposures below 0.02s
- Connect gear: only enable camera selection button when camera driver supports multiple cameras
- ASCOM scopes: better handling for ASCOM drivers that terminate outside of PHD2
- Altair cameras: update to SDK version 30.13270.2018.1102
- ToupTek cameras: update to SDK version 33.13814.2019.0120
- ZWO cameras: use snap mode for USB cameras USB2 mini cameras - fixes various guiding stability problems caused by video mode
- Linux: add Touptek camera support
- Linux: fix a potential crash related to INDI text properties
- Fix long-standing possible crash when Manual Guide tool is run with On-camera mount
- Updated French and Traditional Chinese translations

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.5dev7-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.6 24 March 2019

Changelog.

- Lots of improvements to the Guiding Assistant
- Updated camera support: Altair, QHY, SBIG, SSAG (Mac), ZWO ASI
- New ToupTek camera support for Windows
- New MallinCam SkyRaider camera support for Mac
- INDI SBIG AO support
- Better detection of problems like runaway guiding, excessive backlash, and calibration problems
- Improved backlash compensation
- New Meridian flip calibration tool
- New ZFilter guide algorithm
- Guide algorithm None has been removed
- INDI improvements
- Various minor user interface fixes
- Updated Help file
- Updated translations

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.6-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.6dev1 23 May 2019

- Equipment profile wizard and Guiding Assistant now recommend Lowpass2 Dec guiding for mounts with high-res encoders or near-zero backlash
- Calibration is now automatically cleared if the camera selection is changed
- Predictive PEC: enable the model retaining option by default for new profiles
- ZWO cameras: update to SDK version 1.14.0227 (Windows, Mac, and Linux)
- New Omegon Pro camera selection
- INDI mounts: fix incorrect LST fallback calculation for mount drivers that do not provide LST
- Guide log: ensure monotonically increasing timestamps regardless of changes to the system clock
- Minor debug log cleanup
- Camera simulator: fix crash when no mount or AO is selected
- Fix crash in connect equipment or advanced dialog when AO is selected but mount is None
- Updated French translation

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.6dev1-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.6dev2 10 September 2019

- New button on the main toolbar for auto-selecting a star
- New option to enable/disable audible beep for lost star
- Soften wording of some calibration alert messages to be more advisory in nature
- Fix various problems running the Guiding Assistant with an AO unit
- Changing the Dec Flip calibration option now triggers a new calibration
- Guiding Assistant: better recommendation for polar alignment
- Guiding Assistant: rework min-move recommendations to handle long G.A. runs
- Guiding Assistant: fix incorrect display of +/- symbol
- New profile Wizard: added an option for auto-restoring calibration
- Polar drift: allow window to be resized; save size and position across sessions
- Altair cameras: update to SDK version 38.15031.2019.0706 (Windows)
- INDI cameras: new option to suppress fallback to streaming mode
- INDI cameras: do not start exposure until prior exposure has completed
- INDI: ensure device names always include "INDI"
- ASCOM cameras: fix crash attempting to set cooler after camera is disconnected
- Server: add star HFD to guide step event
- Server: new ConfigurationChange event
- Server: allow clients to send multiple overlapped requests
- Updated French translation
- Updated Traditional Chinese translation
- Updated Help content

Dpwnload.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.6dev2-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.6dev3

7 December 2019

-Mac: 64-bit version of PHD2 for macOS Catalina
-QHY cameras: update macOS SDK to version V20191115_0 (32-bit and 64-bit)
-QHY cameras: log the QHY SDK version in the debug log
-ZWO cameras: update to SDK version V1.14.1108 (windows, mac, linux)
-Workaround for imaging apps which fail to un-pause PHD2: stop button un-pauses guiding
-Updated French translation
-Updated Traditional Chinese translation
-Fix potential crash when AO graph is updated by a thread other than the main UI thread
-Fix unlikely crash if imaging app tells phd2 to start guiding just as user closes app
-Extend auto-adjustment of guiding params for changes to pixel size, binning, or focal length

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.6dev3-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.6dev4

Aduc la cunostinta ca traducerea in limba Romana la PHD2 se datoreaza si aportului adus de catre Sabin Fota fostul coleg in ale Astrofotografiei, care de cativa ani nu mai este printre noi.

6 January 2020

- PHD2 now produces a single debug log and guide log per night rather than a set each time the app is launched
- Saturation detection by max ADU value is now the default setting for new equipment profiles
- Guiding Assistant: slightly more aggressive RA min-move recommendation
- Log upload tool improvements
- Guide log now includes the orthogonality error value and the RA guide rate normalized to Dec 0
- Improved handling of guide speed and image scale changes
- EQMOD ASCOM: display EQMOD-specific instructions in the new profile wizard
iOptron iGuider camera support (Windows)
- QHY cameras: Linux/Mac: remove unnecessary debug messages when run from command-line
- QHY cameras: Linux: updated SDK to V2019.11.15.0
- Add check for problematic AP ASCOM driver synchronous guide pulse mode
- Bug fix: do not repeatedly show alert about dark file mismatch when disconnected camera reconnects
- Bug fix: do not display pulse guide limit reach alert after a long Guiding Assistant run
- Linux: show the translated language names (as we already do on macOS and Windows)
- Display the "you must restart phd2 for the language change to take effect" message translated
cfitsio package updated to version 3.47
- Fixed flicker of controls in graph window
- Updated Korean and Russian translations, plus a new Japanese translation of the Help file
- Help file updates
- Event server: add an optional ROI argument to find_star and guide methods
- Event server: add LockPositionShiftLimitReached event notification
- Event server: add option to get_lock_shift_params method to ask for x/y shift rate
- Debug log improvements

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.6dev4-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.7

- Mac: 64-bit version of PHD2 for macOS Catalina
- PHD2 now produces a single debug and guide log per night rather than a set each time the app is launched
- Added checks for specific mount driver quirks
- Improvements to the log upload tool
- Altair cameras: update to SDK version 38.15031.2019.0706 (Windows)
- iOptrion iGuider camera support added
- Omegon Pro camera selection added
- QHY cameras: update SDK to version V2019.11.15.0 (Linux) and V20191115_0 (Mac)
- ZWO cameras: update SDK to version V1.14.1108 (windows, mac, linux)
- INDI camera improvements
- Workaround for imaging apps which fail to un-pause PHD2: stop button now un-pauses guiding
- Updated French, Korean, Russian, Traditional Chinese translations
- New Japanese translation of the help file
- Automatically update guide settings for changes to binning, pixel size and focal length
- New button on the main toolbar for auto-selecting a star
- New option to enable/disable audible beep for lost star
- Improvements and clarifications of various messages in the application
- Changing the Dec Flip calibration option now triggers a new calibration
- Guiding Assistant: improved guide setting recommendations
- Equipment profile wizard improvements, including specialized settings for mounts with high preceision - New server methods and notification updates
- Updated Help file
- Debug log and guide log improvements

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.7-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.7dev1

PHD2 Development Snapshot Builds.

- Altair cameras: update SDK to 39.15529.2019.0906 (Windows)
- Guiding Assistant: display guide pulse duration on the backlash test graph
- QHY cameras: fix incorrectly-reported bits-per-pixel value for 16-bit cameras
- QHY cameras: fix problem with camera going unresponsive after the stop button
is clicked
- Better tolerance of INDI/ASCOM drivers that incorrectly report guide speed

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.7dev1-installer.exe



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PHD2 v2.6.8 3 May 2020

- No longer display an alert when little South movement is detected after calibration
- Altair cameras: update to SDK version 46.16909.2020.0404 (Windows)
- QHY cameras: fix incorrectly-reported bits-per-pixel value for 16-bit cameras
- Better tolerance of INDI/ASCOM mount drivers that incorrectly report guide speed
- Updated Traditional Chinese translation

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.8-installer.exe

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PHD2 v2.6.9 4 July 2020

- Updated Help file
- Guiding Assistant: improved dec backlash measurement to better handle some poorly behaving mounts
- Polar Drift Align: add Mirror option for OAG users
- Log uploader: do not display empty logs by default
- Fix background color in the Drift Align window to honor the window manager color theme
- INDI: remove the obsolete driver port selection option
- New Galician translation
- Updated French translation
- Updated Portuguese translation

Download.

https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-2.6.9-installer.exe

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