(2021-07-09, 11:48 PM)theskyhound Wrote: Hello Bob,
The finder charts are primarily meant for finding, so they accurately present what you will see to the eye, in your finding device and in your eyepiece. That includes the brightness of the sky, so you must have turned that off or you would see a bright sky. If so, I urge you to turn it back on. You do that via the Chart Preferences, Basic Style tab, set the background to Simple or Natural complex sky.
Sure, I do understand. However, as I initially explained, even with a bright daylight sky, I still see an open cluster being displayed as well. No stars, but an open cluster. In fact, zooming out, it appears all DSOs are visible. I presume this is just a bug then, albeit insignificant.
(2021-07-09, 11:48 PM)theskyhound Wrote: The polar finder uses these same finder charts. This feature is meant to be used at the scope in real time, so normally it would be dark and lots of stars will show. There normally isn't any point to using it during the day because you can't see enough stars to recognize the field. Can you even see Polaris during the day?
Since I am south of the equator, no chance!
While I understand you have designed things like the polar finder with a specific purpose in mind, that doesn't mean to say that we users cannot find additional uses for things. For this specific example it would be great if you could implement a "ignore daylight" switch at some point in the future.
Thanks
Bob