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Lee

Have a good read of https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/3.2/#Live%20Stacking particularly FWHM tab for filtering poor frames (think of thin cloud) and Stacking tab for Sigma Clipped Stacking (to filter out airplane trails).

Dave

Bill

The sensor files are .json format. Sites like https://json-csv.com/ allow conversion to .csv which can be handled by spreadsheets.

I think that is what you are after?

Dave

Bill

Have a look at this viewtopic.php?t=532


Dave

Don

Perhaps you have another machine to test the camera/cable? Also try another (short) cable to see if the problem persists.

Dave

Robin What happens if you run a camera only test (no other USB devices connected) using the manufacturer supplied cable with camera plugged directly into a laptop port? I think you mentioned that you had USB Suspend disabled? Please post: USBtreeView full report Msinfo export (zip this up) Dave

Good luck Mark.

Systematic testing and subsequent evaluation will be time well spent.

Dave

Folks If you follow this plot at some point will you not start clipping the white point? Yes, therefore intelligent use of the histogram is required in combination with the settings. With an Altair 183C capturing at 5000x3000 I usually push it and end up with a small number of pixels at or around 10...

Don A quick Google for fresco logic usb3.0 host controller comes up with this https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware-winpc/windows-10-creators-update-fresco-logic-usb3/3c1e8136-1861-411a-ba4e-ea828bc9fe55 which might be worth a read. To help progress this, please post:...

Mark I don't autoguide so it may not be possible. Don't be in a hurry to go down that route - look at the basics first. I have a Celestron AVX mount, 2nd hand, cost me £500 (£800 new). I use it without guiding. Good reasonable polar align via polarscope, careful 4 + 2 mount alignment, then All Star ...

Mark 1) yes, unity gain seems to be a good starting point but not necessarily the end point. Gain=125 looks an interesting one from your graph. 2) yes 3) exposure same that planned for lights when capturing darks 4) match dark exposure when capturing lights but you might have meant that anyway 1 - 4...