SharpCap Forums

Hi,

thanks for the suggestion - I think this will have to be one of those suggestions where I wait to see if many other peole think it's a useful idea...

cheers,

Robin

Hi, you can find a list of the features that are enabled by buying a SharpCap Pro license here : https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.1/#SharpCap%20Pro%20Features For live stacking, you can quite happily make great images with the free version, but the pro version gives you tools to help improve image qual...

Hi Don, thanks for that - it looks like we are on the right track, as the log reveals that when SharpCap first connects to the mount, it has no clue about either the current civil time or the sidereal time! Warning 19:34:42.447818 #38 Mount time of 2013-10-04T08:39:27.0020000 differs from system tim...

Hi Jean-Francois, looks like this one disappeared back in March when I had a bit of a clean up to try to make sure that I wasn't unintentionally making things visible to scripting (various things that I hadn't intended to be available has become available and started being used by scripts, which was...

Hi, rather than worry about spherical co-ordinates, maybe it's easier to think about the view in the finder scope - given a decent finder field-of-view, the main scope will be pointing at some place in the finderscope image, just not the center... If you find that point (maybe plate solve the main s...

Hi Mike, that's a possibility - the hot pixel removal happens first (it works best in a frame that has had no other processing done on it), but it does 'borrow' a pixel value from the nearest neighbour of the same channel when it needs to replace a hot/cold pixel. That should be borrowing from a pix...

Hi, you would have to turn on the option to record 'Mount Hardware Communications' in the SharpCap logging settings before opening the camera or connecting to the mount. SharpCap will then add a lot of information to the log - you would then need to search the log for entries relating to 'Destinatio...

Hi Mike, this is with a colour camera, yes? I think that what is happening here is that pairs of adjacent hot/warm pixels (adjacent for the same colour of pixel) survive the hot pixel detection/removal process. The process is pretty simple - it looks at the target pixel and the four immediately surr...

Hi, thanks for posting - this is interesting... SharpCap asks the ASCOM driver for the mount what side of pier would be used for the target co-ordinates, and I am guessing that your ASCOM driver either responds with 'Unknown' or it just has a bug in the code that does the calculation, so that it res...

Hi Marco, thanks for reporting back on that - I will change the code to put the fan speed in the thermal controls panel and also consider auto-turning the fan speed to maximum when turning the cooler on. I don't think any of my cameras support the variable fan speed, so I didn't notice the control w...