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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: How do I?
- Topic: Unable to select a narrow ROI
- Replies: 1
- Views: 58
Re: Unable to select a narrow ROI
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: TargetInvocationException on Goto
- Replies: 4
- Views: 168
Re: TargetInvocationException on Goto
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: No guiding with Live Stacking
- Replies: 2
- Views: 49
Re: No guiding with Live Stacking
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: CPWI crash/restart leaves SharpCap half working
- Replies: 8
- Views: 181
Re: CPWI crash/restart leaves SharpCap half working
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...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: Spurious hot pixel groupings occasionally appearing in some master darks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 256
Re: Spurious hot pixel groupings occasionally appearing in some master darks
Hi Errol, brilliant! - that not only helps understand what is going on, but also gives a path to fix the problem by some sort of outlier rejection when averaging the dark frames. I have downloaded the shared files so that I can test my solution for this to make sure the sensitivity is appropriate to...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: SC losing connection with focuser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 191
Re: SC losing connection with focuser
The lack of source code to the ASCOM drivers intrigued me, so I carried on digging. It appears it is not available... https://sourceforge.net/p/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/discussion/general/thread/79803561/ Of course, you could decompile the ASCOM driver with various tools available to convert .NET ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: How do I?
- Topic: Passing parameters to Python scripts from sequences
- Replies: 5
- Views: 157
Re: Passing parameters to Python scripts from sequences
Hi, my thought with the 'one line of python' suggestion was that you could either use it to set global python variables before running a script, or as you have suggested call a function that encapsulates a whole script and pass in the right parameters... I think I will add that as it is nice and eas...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: What's New
- Topic: New Feature : Support for ASCOM Cover/Calibrator devices
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1165
Re: New Feature : Support for ASCOM Cover/Calibrator devices
Hi, were you trying to switch the light on or off? I guess so, since the 30s timeout applies to those operations. SharpCap is expecting the light to enter the correct state within 30s of the command being issued. If you are switching on, the calibrator should go to the 'Ready' state, if switching of...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: SC losing connection with focuser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 191
Re: SC losing connection with focuser
Hi, interesting that the first error in the ASCOM log is 'A device attached to the system is not functioning.', followed by 'Serial port is not connected'. I suspect that the failure to talk to the arduino is happening at a fairly low level (driver? USB?) to lead to the device not functioning error....
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
- Topic: Is Smart Histogram Scope, Camera or both Scope & Camera Dependent?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 87
Re: Is Smart Histogram Scope, Camera or both Scope & Camera Dependent?
Hi, the sensor analysis process and the data it produces is only influenced by the camera, not the telescope that you have it attached to (you can also do the analsis with a simple lens attached, or even with an open sensor). So, you only need to do the analysis once (or not at all if your camera is...