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I've wondered the same thing for quite a while. I haven't yet heard a good explanation of why one should choose to use both, though I know imagers I respect highly (Chris for one) do so. As I understand from the manual, if you use both and want to save the image as you see it on the screen, you must...

Robin, From the Celestron firmware engineer prior to your latest post: "I have additional information. After SmartCap creates an instance of the driver, it checks the Connected property. CPWI's ASCOM focuser driver will report Connected=True if CPWI is running and if CPWI has found a focuser on your...

Hi Don Well, I have been doing flats a lot over the past few months and I always keep the brightness setting the same as lights and they work great. Bruce Thanks Bruce, I have generally been using Brightness of 0 for the flats and 4 for the lights, which was based on some settings reported by Chris...

According to the SharpCap manual, when selecting the bias frame option, it "requires" the camera brightness level control to not be changed when capturing the target image light frames. However, in this thread, https://forums.sharpcap.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1282 , Chris states that he uses a diff...

Another quick update -- ZWO agrees that it is a camera hardware issue and that my camera needs to be sent back for repair. Thanks for your all your help in troubleshooting (you, too, Dave).

Don

Hi Robin, Yes, I tried it in all 3 USB ports with 3 different cables on 2 different laptops. I think it is some kind of internal to the camera connection issue. I did not see anything obvious when I removed the camera front piece (which you do when cleaning the sensor and inside of the protect windo...

Hi Robin, I thought I'd update you a little bit on this issue. On ZWO's recommendation, I tried using their ASICAP software to see the frame dropping in SharpCap also occurs in other software. What I found out was that when this problem occurs, ASICAP indicated there were no frames being captured at...

Hi Robin, It looks like Duane in the "bug reports" sub-forum was experiencing the same thing where the timeout was occurring much faster than the exposure time or the SharpCap timeout time: Warning: 20:37:34.2578180 Thread:ASI Grab Thread#32 SharpCap.Cameras.ASI.ASICameraProxy.GetFrameData(Int32 tim...

Still looking for help on this (although I will be traveling for the next 2 weeks and away from the scope). To summarize, some nights (not all): 1) ASI 294MC Pro camera will work fine for a while with no or few dropped frames. At some point, it starts to drop all frames. At first, it seems to help t...

I'm back and still experiencing the same issue. I have done enough troubleshooting that I don't think it's a USB issue on the laptop side. The problem only occurs with my ZWO AI 294MC Pro camera. It does not occur when using my ZWO ASI 224MC camera. I can move the USB3 cable connection from one came...