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Robin

5964 download tested - OK.

Dave

Build 5964 has been temporarily removed. It will be uploaded again this evening.

Dave

Bryan

Please feed back your experiences, they may help others with this frequently asked topic.

Dave

For anyone copying dll’s around the system, it is advisable to rename the existing dll rather than just overwrite. In the event of things going wrong then a simple rename gives a regression path.

Dave

Bryan To establish offset for a given gain , I take a bias frame staring with the lowest offset - then look at the histogram in FITS Liberator. If the histogram is not central then Increase offset, take another bias frame and repeat until I get a centralised histogram. Unity gain is a good place to ...

wouldn't recommend running a live stack over a meridian flip I agree with that also for conventional imaging. I learned the hard with my Celestron C8. A meridian flip meant mirror shift, which then needed a re-focus, which then meant another set of flats - many wasted sessions working this all out ...

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Putting 'mono bin' into the forum search led to this in the manual https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/3.2/#Camera ... 20Controls. The term is described in Image Controls under ZWO cameras.

Dave

Thanks Robin.

Thanks Robin. The banding suppression controls in SharpCap can apply a digital filter to the image just after capture that will (with the correct settings) largely remove this horizontal banding Out of curiosity: What digital filter is being applied? Are there any considerations to be made when proc...

The links below contain useful background information on binning.

viewtopic.php?f=35&t=262

https://www.swagastro.com/to-bin-or-not-to-bin.html

Dave