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Hi Errol, I have experimental code now that finds the issue in dark #16 at the position you recorded. In fact, the statistics of that pixel are that it is *hundreds* of standard deviations from the mean value of the other darks for that position! Looking at the individual dark frame, you can see tha...

Hi Geoff, just tested this on my NEQ6 with EQMOD 2.00w and (typically) it works fine... I had a dig around the source code for EQMOD itself to see what might cause a maths overflow error when starting tracking, and an incorrect custom tracking rate having been set is certainly one option (the custom...

Hi John, I can see from the screenshot that the sequencer was in action when you were imaging - I guess you might have been running some sort of exposure bracketing sequence? How many frames were you capturing at each exposure length? I would recommend a minimum of 10 for short exposures (or a 1s de...

Hi,

the share wasn't set up for public access, so I have just requested access to the file - once you approve that I will be able to download it.

cheers,

Robin

Hi Geoff,

thanks for testing - I can still use EQMOD on my system here, so I will try that out and see if I see the same result. If I do, it should be possible for me to work out what is going on and hopefully fix it.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, can you first check that you have the latest version of the SVBony Windows system driver installed? An old version of that could give the sort of problems that you are seeing. The latest download can be found here : https://www.svbony.com/support-software-driver/ - click 'Windows' on the left, t...

Hi Prasad, thanks for sharing your discovery. The normal rule for choosing the width of the image on a ZWO camera is that it must be a multiple of 8, so 3096 should be fine (8*387), but obviously not in this case... In theory I could change the rule programmed into SharpCap to 'must be a multiple of...

Hi Geoff, thanks for the update - just did a check of the mount control related changes between 12025 and 12100 and I don't think there is anything relevant to this situation - basically the changes came down to * Error handling around park/unpark * Changes to how the code waits for the mount to set...

Hi Louis, if you are using a real guiding application (PHD2 or an MGEN guider) then you can either use the recentering option or guiding, but not both. To turn on the guiding/dithering option, turn of recentering. The theory is that when you have PHD2 or MGEN guiding active, dithering is not necessa...

Hi Chris, interesting... If the 'Stop' button is disabled as well as all the other controls then it probably means that SharpCap has become stuck trying to send the movement command to the focuser - ie the code is stuck in the ASCOM driver. We could confirm that if you could try running with the log...