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Robin,
I don't have my laptop with me to check versions etc, but I had the same trouble (worked manually but not on auto) with my QHY174 the other night. I know we have the same model so you might want to try your camera just to check.

Steve.

Would AstroFlashTimer (https://sites.google.com/site/astroflashtimer/home) be of any use to you ? It's intended for occultations and has been tested against the IOTA VTI.

Steve.

Did command line camera selection make it into 3.2 ?
Is there a historical change log that I could have searched before asking ?

Steve.

Can I have two QHY5Lii (either one M and one C or two of the same type) cameras attached and appear as distinct items in SharpCap ?

Steve.

I was going to ask if you'd connected the antenna as that would be the response if you hadn't.
Then I remembered that the antenna module that came with my camera wasn't very reliable. I already had another one which I swapped in and it hasn't missed a beat since then.

Steve.

Yes. That seems to work now. Thanks.

I dropped a North pole shot into the polar align function and it solved straight away so Nick might be in luck. I didn't have as much luck with a South pole shot but I wouldn't read anything into that yet. I need to play with it some more.

Steve.

Selecting "Folder Monitor Camera" puts SC into a bit of a death spiral preventing me from sending the error report.
Best I could do is a screen grab. There are 21 of these before it stops.
I've also attached the log file. Steve.

Currently you have the option to save the RAW frames (taking lots of disk space) or not saving them (putting all your eggs in one stacked frame). If you just saved a sub-stack every 10 frames for example, you'd use a tenth of the disk space and reduce the risk over having just a single image file at...

Would it be possible to add a sub-stacking function where you save the stack after X exposures repeatedly ? The idea being for example, take 30 second subs and every 10 subs the stack is saved and the stack restarted. At the end of the hour you have 30, 5 minute exposures rather than the risk of a s...

Could you add a command line parameter to select a camera and/or run a particular start-up script ? Since you can run multiple instances, it would be helpful to have shortcuts that start up SharpCap connected to say a Polemaster or guidecam with the appropriate settings, without altering the imaging...