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Hi John,

that sounds really promising - if it works it should solve the problem as you will be able to pick one of the LX200 ASCOM drivers and use that.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, things to do: * Check if any system drivers from Celestron are needed and if so, install those * Look in Windows 'Device Manager' and see if the Neximage5 is showing up there (if it has a yellow exclaimation mark or doesn't show up then there is a problem). Often pulling the device USB cable out...

Hi Mike, on the dark frame issue, the first step I would suggest is a 'check the plug' test on the dark frame and the light frames - open the dark you were using and one of the raw light frames in a tool like FITSLiberator and check that the average pixel value of the dark frame really is lower than...

Hi Mike,

glad those buttons did the trick

cheers,

Robin

Hi, thanks for reporting back on your latest testing - it's particularly interesting that the error from CdC is half that from SharpCap 'solve and sync' and matches a SharpCap plain GOTO. That ties in nicely with the my analysis in post #9 above - that the GOTO is ending up in the wrong position and...

Hi, seems like as good a place as any for it... I would have thought that O-rings are fairly much a commodity item, and there's probably no difference between those used for a pressure tuner than those used in some completely different application - the important things are the diameter across the O...

Hi, thanks for the data - I think I have identified the ADV problem now due to a change I introduced in 4.1.12151 - I have a fix for the next update. There's no way in software that I know of to force the camera to run in USB 2 mode - the easiest options are either to use a USB2 cable if the camera ...

Hi, the zoom levels of the two displays are not linked, as that would behave oddly when the available space on the main screen doesn't match the available space on the second display. The way to zoom the second display is to use the mouse controls for zooming, which are the standard CTRL key + mouse...

Hi,

congratulations on getting such good images of the ISS - it's not a target I have tried, but I went to a talk about how it is done earlier this year, so I know what a difficult target it is!

Robin

Hi,

good to hear that the new API covers enough ground for you!

clear skies

Robin