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Robin, I was out again tonight without a filter and my ZWO 2600MC colour camera this time and the same thing happened. Sometimes it would work sometimes not. Sometimes it says there are too many stars so I reduce the number but it's flaky and wastes a lot of time. One question. I have a 1000mm Newt ...

I very often find that plate solving fails using Ha, S2 or O3, approx 7nM narrowband filters. An information band comes up near the top LHS, then an announcement that plate solving has failed due to too many or too few stars. This is with an 8" Skywatcher Newtonian attached to an ZWO 2600MM cam...

Robin, I am having problems with the sequencer. I want to auto focus with 1.5s exp and gain 600, then capture 20 lights at 180s gain 250 dithering every 2 frames and this should take 1 hr each time through the loop. I want to repeat 4 times then park the mount after 4 hrs. SEQUENCE DELAY 1 STILL MOD...

Robin, I have put MGEN to one side for now as I can't use MGEN3 and see it as a virtual instrument in Sharpcap with a ZWI ASI 2600 with gain >100. Also I cannot balance G and B colours as I can if I choose the ZWO as the camera and not MGEN. I have bought a ZWO guide camera and now want to use phd g...

Robin, OK I will try the double click trick next time I am out. It's puzzling it hasn't happed to be before as I use the red box a lot for focussing. I didn't get a prompt or I didn't wait long enough. The program was completely frozen though and I couldn't close it from within the program. I have o...

Robin, I have just been using the multi star focussing routine in Sharpcap 4 again and come across something that hasn't happened previously. After selecting multi star focussing in focus assistant and looking at the star field, I click on a small box top RHS that says "select an area of the im...

Robin, Since you told me about downloading and installing the 2 dll files MGEN3 is now appearing and working in a virtual window on my laptop with dithering using Sharpcap 32 bit and it is dithering for the first time. There is however a new problem. It looks like a different ZWO driver is now being...

Robin,
When I tried the 64 bit version not accessing MGEN APP and tried dithering it told me once again that it could not access MGEN or something similar At least it is consistent.

Robin, I was trying that again when I read you reply and the result is that it tells me there is a fault with my ASCOM drivers and then this long message:- System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'MG3lib\MG3lib.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007...

Robin, Thanks for the heads up re off axis guiding. I wish I had access to another MGEN3 as who knows mine may have a fault? I have a new fast 16GM memory laptop so I doubt that is a problem. I have moved the guide camera assembly from the tube side attachment point to the dovetail supported between...