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Hi Louis, I have seen a couple of uploaded bug reports that might have been you - they match your description that the cover has reported an error state. Those reports were from SharpCap 4.1.12128. The newer version - 4.1.12174 will still report the error state to the user, but no longer makes it a ...

Hi, yes, PHD may be running, but without live stacking turned on, SharpCap doesn't connect to PHD, so it only *knows* that PHD is running once live stacking is activated and the connection to PHD has succeeded. The old code for monitoring PHD in 4.0 was a bit horrible - if PHD was guiding OK at the ...

Hi Jean-Francois, yes, you are right about the digits of precision for the on-image timestamp... that change was made some time back to give more precision when GPS is available. I have changed the code to move the on-screen timestamp down one pixel line if the GPS data is there. That was already ac...

Hi Anthony, do you have the option in live stacking to 'Only stack while guiding is active' switched on the the live stack guiding tab? I think that might be the cause of the first frame being dropped... In your log, I can see that the first 240s frame after focusing starts at 23:00:12. You start li...

Hi Menno,

I have an 071C, so I can have a play with that to see if I can work out what is going on. A first guess is that flipping the cooler to 'Off' and then back to 'On' may fix things without needing to restart - I have seen that sort of issue pop up before.

cheers,

Robin

Hi Jean-Francois, oops - I didn't test with a username/password needed, only to press 'No' on the allow changes. I can fix that by handling the error. Interesting that the resulting offset is slightly different. I am doing the same calculation on the SharpCap side to work out how much offset needs t...

Hi Louis,

ah, OK. There's a better option for that - you can mave multiple independent SharpCap configurations using the /instance command line parameter. See https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.1/#Comman ... 0Arguments for more info.

cheers,

Robin

I have made a couple of updates to the GPS code this time around - I don't think they will have significant effect in the 'happy path' everything is working fine case, but they may change how problem situations are reported/dealt with. First, the 'Set PC Time to GPS Time' button no longer requires S...

Hi Don, the log doesn't show any 'smoking guns' that might point to the cause. I had a dig around the code and it looks just possible that the state of the buttons on screen might get out-of-sync with the underlying functionality in some cases - I have tweaked the code to remove that possibility, so...

Hi folks, yes, this is currently a problem - the code looks for stars in each frame, discards those that are too bright (near saturation) or too dim and then averages the FWHM measurement of the remaining ones to get the value. If the brightness changes then it might pick more, fewer or different st...