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Robin, The issue of ASCOM and the proposed offset property in the ASCOM Camera interface is still under debate. Your contribution to the discussion was well very received. Your insight is so valued that Bob Denny, the father of ASCOM, would like to get in contact with you. ASCOM is still evolving an...

Robin,

Thanks much. I just posted on the ASCOM group page.

If there is noteworthy response, I'll share with you.

Clear skies,

Robin, With your permission, I'd like to post your statements and graphics into the discussion on the ASCOM group site. I don't have much expectation that this will convert any of the adversaries and produce a tidy consensus. You've given each side a little more ammo for their particular interpretat...

Recently, there's been a discussion on the ASCOM standards forums (in Groups.io) concerning the offset values for cameras. Some users want the ASCOM designers to add an Offset property to the Camera interface. The offset value seems to be commonly available and controllable from many camera vendors'...

Interesting. IIRC, I could paste the clipboard contents into a new spreadsheet well after SC reported the error and departed. IOW, the clipboard had SC's data when it reported the failure. To confirm this, I'd need to repeat some SA's. Too time consuming for this clipboard glitch. The affiliation wi...

It took me some time to collect another successful Sensor Analysis with a copy-to-clipboard fail. I had several SA's fail with lighting too bright or too dim. One attempt simultaneously reported too light and too dark conditions. The successful SA as shown in the attachment was followed by the copy-...

Very early after I first discovered the automatic/comprehensive bug report, I wondered how many bug reports flooded your inbox. I don't think the "most reports" always reflects the "most people affected". Many people (like me) will just retry (and retry and retry) in hopes the fi...

I've been working (and I do mean "working") with the Sensor Analysis option of SC 3.2.6173. I also ran some SAs with 6137. In 100% of the cases where the analysis completed and I clicked on the option to "Copy to Clipboard", there was a pregnant pause and suddenly SC displayed th...

The ASCOM Camera V2 Simulator is fully configurable (like most ASCOM simulators). For this application, you can test operations with an 8-bit simulated camera by going into the Simulator Setup screen. Just click Show on the Options in the Camera Control Panel under Camera Controls. Inside the Simula...

Very unexpectedly, I have some news to report on the SharpCap and QHY168c saga... When we last left our cast, the white flag of surrender was flying due to incessant crashes of SC with the native QHY168c driver. Fast forward a handful of SC neglected builds.... And today, 9/6/2019 (I can fake a Brit...