SharpCap Forums

Hi Marc, the frame is not deleted when you hit 'X', just removed from the list of darks shown in the dropdown in SharpCap. All you need to do is find it on disk, where it will still be in the original location. If you captured it using SharpCap's dark capture function then have a look in the main 'S...

Hi Peter, unfortunately ASCOM remote when used to control cameras is really only suitable for long exposure capturing where the extra time taken by the remote connection and transferring the frame over the network doesn't matter too much (compared to an exposure of 30s or 90s etc). For high speed im...

Hi,

OK, odd that the 183 fails to work when other high resolution cameras are fine. Do you have another PC you can test on? I have seen some cases where a particular PC or laptop (or even particular USB ports) just don't get along well with some cameras.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, that's odd - that doesn't match the code of the sequence recorded in the logfile above : STOP AT LOCALTIME 03:30:00 TARGETNAME "NGC 5055 Sunflower" MOUNT GOTO "RA 13h 15m 48.22s | Dec 42° 01' 52.1'' " SAVE MOUNT COORDINATES STOP AT 1 FROM MERIDIAN GOSUB "Main Imaging Seq...

Hi Mike, if you get any clear skies, give the new 4.1.12066 version a try with the option to enable the pre-release features. If that is done correctly then you should see a log message containing this text when starting calibration Using new mount guiding for calibration/movement (offset of mount p...

Hi, 'Stop at 1 from meridian' will stop the previous imaging when the mount is 1 degree short of reaching the meridian - 4 minutes of time. Depending on how quickly the sequence runs from that 'stop' point to getting to call the MeridianFlip subroutine, it could happen that the attempt at meridian f...

Hi, I have to say that looks pretty much fine to me - I downloaded the image and loaded it into SharpCap's test camera then stretched it and I can see that there is definitely a random background in the image Screenshot 2024-04-17 194333.jpg If you view the histogram in SharpCap while capturing dark...

Hi, I'm not sure about the expected behaviour of two stop at steps one inside the other with the same stop time - that may be part of the issue. I can also see that after the main part of the cancellation was complete, an auto-refocus kicked off at 07:30:01 with the detection of a large temperature ...

Hi George,

thanks for the suggestion - I hadn't thought of that!

I have plans to improve the minimum altitude at some point so you can specify a variable horizon (different heights in different directions), so I will think about it then.

cheers,

Robin

Hi Eric, ah yes, that is a SharpCap message! I was searching for the wrong wording. What is happening there is that the mount is say flipped past the meridian (east side pointing west at maybe 182 azimuth) according to the mount ASCOM co-ordinates. The plate solving result comes in at a position on ...