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ADC tool goes nuts if not using full area of sensor. Version 3.3.6882.0 32 bit, Win10 x64, ASI1600MC. Capturing in RAW16. It works fine if the using at the full resolution of the sensor but if I select a smaller capture area (eg. 1024 x 768) it goes into a death spiral (so I couldn't generate a cras...

Hubble's plate was 45 minutes on the 100" Hooker telescope.

Steve.

That's excellent Christian.
Thank you.

Steve.

Hi Ken,

Yes please. I need to duplicate that part.

Steve.

Could someone meter the connections between the 0.1" Blaster header and the 0.05" header that plugs into the QHY boards please ? I'll have to make something up and would rather not make any assumptions and find out the hard way that I guessed incorrectly. No answer from QHY. Of course, if someone wa...

Hi Robin,

I'd be interested in the information for upgrading my 174 if it's not too much trouble.

Cheers,

Steve.

I generally don't like to post "this worked for me" without having an explanation but I do recall that this had me pulling my hair out for a while.
I had the same symptoms that turned out to be the Gamma slider which is a control that I'd never touched.
Check that the slider is about midway.

Steve.

Thanks.
That would get rid of the "No filter wheel found" when I'm using one of the other cameras too.

Steve.

Would it be possible to add the ability to save configurations and include FoV information that could be passed to the plate solver ? Could such configurations be selected by a command line switch ? The reason is that I have several setups, some that have several, quite different field of views. At ...

It looks to me like your exposure is too long, making the background level too high.
My settings for a Polemaster in Auckland suburbs are Exp=150ms, Gain=70.

Steve.