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by celkins
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:26 am
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: Focuser bug in v11922
Replies: 3
Views: 176

Re: Focuser bug in v11922

Thanks, Robin - I see it proved just a bit more difficult, from the release notes ;) :)
Only just returned to clear skies, here, so sorry for the long delay... appears fixed.
by celkins
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:50 pm
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: Focuser bug in v11922
Replies: 3
Views: 176

Focuser bug in v11922

Hi, Robin,
focuser appeared to lock out buttons when trying to initiate focus - see colour screen shot
This cleared when I stopped <Live View>

This get's even stranger: see second MONO screenshot, after opening focuser, and back to live view...
by celkins
Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: v4.1.11621 - strangeness moving from focus tool to histo
Replies: 1
Views: 5911

v4.1.11621 - strangeness moving from focus tool to histo

Hi, Robin,
strangeness after opening histogram, immediately after running multi-star focus tool - blank histo
SC_4.1.11621_Histo-Focus-sml.jpg
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After closing the histo window, re-opening produces what you'd expect...


Thanks,
Carl
by celkins
Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:36 pm
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: v4.1.11031 focuser runaway inwards
Replies: 3
Views: 1710

Re: v4.1.11031 focuser runaway inwards

Hi, Robin, sorry for the delay in replying. Overshoot by 1200 steps , always approach in positive direction ... there's quite a bit of slop in SCT focusers, and this goes through the 10x fine focus knob, as well as a reduction by the belt pulleys from a 200-step stepper. Please let me know if I can ...
by celkins
Wed Sep 13, 2023 1:13 am
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: v4.1.11031 focuser runaway inwards
Replies: 3
Views: 1710

v4.1.11031 focuser runaway inwards

Robin, I don't quite know what happened here, as I'd switched to another virtual desktop to check on another program, however what I heard was one of my focus motors doing a very long run at top speed... When I switched desktops back to SharpCap, I could see this focuser apparently headed for zero.....
by celkins
Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:49 am
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: Possible bug - LiveStack file naming 4.1.10987
Replies: 1
Views: 356

Possible bug - LiveStack file naming 4.1.10987

Robin, I know we've had issues around Live Stack file naming before, but here something is definitely not quite right: hopefully, as you will see from the screenshot, the filter selected is LPS-D1 , but the second field in the suggested filename, which should be the filter, is NBZ-UHS , which was th...
by celkins
Fri Jun 16, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: SharpCap Beta Testing Forum
Topic: Auto Focus - Refocus Fail
Replies: 14
Views: 1047

Re: Auto Focus - Refocus Fail

Robin, I had an instance of refocus failing spectacularly a couple of nights ago: I always scan outwards , since I’m using a SCT , I clicked on auto focus , unusually (I usually control refocusing manually); after taking several frames, it determined that it was on the wrong side of focus ( incorrec...
by celkins
Fri Jun 16, 2023 1:28 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Plate solve with sync turns off PEC playback on my CGX mount
Replies: 19
Views: 3492

Re: Plate solve with sync turns off PEC playback on my CGX mount

Robin, there was a question from Derek, Celestron’s lead firmware engineer, on Team Celestron some time ago about exactly this - PEC being disabled after SYNC commands… IIRC, the gist was that this was “a historical artefact” of the older era controllers… Sorry, but since I don’t use PEC, relying on...
by celkins
Sat Jun 10, 2023 11:26 am
Forum: Other Astro Imaging
Topic: Reference of timestamp
Replies: 20
Views: 12882

Re: Reference of timestamp

Hi, I hope you don’t mind me chiming in, but I think you’re missing Robin’s point, here: you can have arbitrary precision in the time reported, but Windows doesn’t provide for accurate timestamps at such precision… Windows internal timekeeping isn’t accurate below milliseconds , regardless of the pr...
by celkins
Wed May 24, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: SharpCap Beta Testing Forum
Topic: v4.1.10609 bug report
Replies: 8
Views: 510

Re: v4.1.10609 bug report

Robin,
when you say PHD closes, are you meaning closes as in the App quits? If so, that's not part of my workflow.
In most cases, I either leave PHD guiding, if I'm pausing to re-focus, or I go back to looping in PHD, when moving to a new target.

Carl