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I tried a few things as you suggested. I changed the ROI and then waited several minutes. It did not start displaying images. I checked the log file and it showed that it had tried to restart camera many times. I then switched on Force Still Mode and then it did start taking images after an ROI chan...

Hi Robin, I downloaded the latest version of SharpCap and it appears to have successfully fixed the problem of changing to a smaller then larger ROI. But I do have a few questions on the intended operation of the software. 1. If I am in the live view mode and I change the ROI, live view stops until ...

Do you have any updates on a possible software fix?

I used my 163c and 163m a couple of years ago to take pictures of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn using SharpCap and ROI without any problems. Perhaps something has changed in the driver maybe??? Other than the moon, it's not usable in it's present state to take planetary pictures.
Mike

Thanks for the update Robin. It will be interesting to know where the problem is. Both my QHY163c and QHY163m show the issue.
Mike

Hi Robin, I updated SharpCap to 4.1 as you requested. I then repeated the same sequence and had the same problem. In fact, there were several other issues that I saw and I thought it would be quicker to just send you a screen capture video so you can see what I'm seeing. Follow the dropbox link belo...

Hi. I'm using SharpCap Pro (v4.0.9538 64 bit on a Windows 10 desktop computer. I'm connected to a QHY163m camera using Ascom 6.6.1 device hub. My problem is that I bring up SharpCap and do a LiveView using the full sensor size (4656x3522). Since I am doing planetary imaging, I then shrink the captur...

Last night I used Sharpcap to take about 30-1 minute pictures of the Veil Nebula using Sharpcap and then turned off Sharpcap and used Nina to do the same. I am using the QHY163C camera. The proper bayer pattern is BGGR for this camera. I processed the pictures separately in Deep Sky Stacker. The Nin...

Thanks Robin. I'll check out your link.
Mike

I have a QHY163c camera that I've been using successfully for a couple of years. I typically store my color deep sky FITS images as RAW16. This has worked flawlessly until yesterday. Sharpcap displays my images as color in the RAW16 mode but stores the files as mono. If I switch to RGB24 it will sto...