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I've updated the script to use a mix of LIVE MODE and STILL MODE captures and it seems to be working as expected now. This is now largely an exercise of testing to understand the inherent capabilities of the system, including the time needed to both capture and write images to disk, and the delays a...

Given the nature of an eclipse, where the brightness changes immensely over a short period of time, and requires the ability to rapidly capture multiple frames at different exposure values, do you recommend using a mix of LIVE and STILL modes in the script as a good strategy? Or is it best to stick ...

So it seems that an exposure longer than 4s actually puts the system in an odd state, where subsequent exposures of even less than 4s are random durations. I added another Capture Live Frame command after the longest one, and tried 10s, and it was very fast as I've come to expect for exposures longe...

Watching the bottom left when it's capturing a 4s exposure shows the count at 0 until the exposure is complete. When it gets to a longer exposure, the count is briefly at zero (like for about 0.825 seconds ;) ) and then increments rapidly. I tried this with an exposure of 30s and it was the same beh...

I'm setting up a sequence that will bracket the corona for the April, 2024 Eclipse. I've found that once I set an exposure length longer than 4s the exposure instead ends up being 0.825s, is 4s really the maximum exposure length possible in the sequencer? Here is the log showing the exposure set to ...

Solved my own issue, found the "Wait until later than <Time of Day>" command and that seems to be working! The sequence no longer stalls if it falls a bit behind!

After a bit of testing I’m realizing that while my camera is consistently fast in capturing images, the writing to disk performance is less consistent. Using that “wait until time” condition has resulted in the entire sequence stalling if prior action strays even 0.1 seconds over the next start time...

So glad I found this thread, I was just about to ask the same thing! I'm traveling to Dallas for the Eclipse in April 2024, and I'm bringing 4 systems with me. I'm planning to manage the sequences for two of them with SharpCap Pro, but I'm building the sequence and specific timings and exposure leng...