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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.

Much as I hate the term, Var1 is a bucket list object for me. That's not helped by me living in New Zealand, where M31 barely creeps up to 10 degrees azimuth. I haven't seen it captured with anything less than 8" aperture before, so now I have renewed hope that I can get it with my travel setup. Tha...

Thanks Robin. It's no longer that important to me. More of a loose end that would be nice to tidy up.
I might pursue it further when I run out of things to tidy up.

Steve.

Robin,
We both have early release versions of this camera and I wondered if you ever managed to get good GPS data when imaging in 16 bit mode ?

Steve.

That's how I use it. I start with it rotated and when it says to rotate, I tell the mount to seek home. As you say, that means up is up, left is left, etc when you are adjusting, but it also inherently checks some other things like the mount knowing where home is, overloaded/unbalanced issues, etc. ...

Robin,
I think you have misread the posts above. Those that have been having trouble with Polemaster (I'm one of them) are finding that the issues have been resolved in the latest (6137) release of SharpCap.
We're all happy now.

Steve.