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Hi, Robin. I'll try those suggestions. My light panel is built just for making flats, but I did figure out last night that if I had it turned almost all the way down, so that I could get the exposure up to about 500 ms, the banding was still there, but the flat itself didn't have it. I was pretty ha...

All my cameras are ASIs. When capturing flats, all of them without fail have horizontal lines running across the viewer pane of SharpCap, and this happens on three different laptops, over years, and 5-6 different cameras. Sometimes I get lucky and, even though the lines are in the SC viewer, they do...

Robin, I don't know if switching to 16 bit was what did it, but it worked.

Thanks for your help.

-- Jason

Hi, Robin. I'll be danged. I thought I was vigilant on setting 16 bit for all of them. I think I know what happened, though. I bumped the USB and it dropped the camera connection in the middle of the dark phase. I think I reconnected and just plain forgot to set 16 bit. I'll try that. If it comes do...

This looked like as good a place to post this as any. I sat down and did sensor analyses for all five of my color cameras. The ones that worked normally are the ASI2400, ASI533 and ASI385. The ASI294 went through all the processes normally, but the finishing report showed 0 values in all columns. I ...

I also had this problem, but only recently. Last time out, in fact, when I've been using SC's polar alignment tool for three years. I had it at Excellent, literally as good as it can get. I use CPWI, and when I was finished with the alignment, CPWI told me the south and maybe east polar alignments w...

Hi, Robin.

Other than the gain confusion, the gain works on its own scale, correct? And are there any other issues running a QHY128C? I figured this must be the place to ask, since I'm thinking of buying one.

Thanks,

-- Jason

I use an ASI294 and a few others. I imagine SharpCap was really originally designed for DSLR type cameras and longer term exposures than the 40 second max needed for EAA type cameras? If I wanted to get the faintest detail out of, say, M81, I'd have to expose it for, say, 90 seconds, but if I did th...

This is only a dream of mine, and I don't expect it to happen, but I'll post anyway. I'm not sure I'm correct in the lingo with respect to HDR, but I'll try to briefly explain. Miloslick is camera capture software exclusive to Mallincam's CCD cameras. The guy who does that promised a version for CMO...

OK, Robin. Thanks for looking into it. I've come up with a couple physical solutions that actually get the job done well enough.

-- Jason