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Hi Robin, Thanks for your usual quick response. I noticed the same thing, which surprised me since it is a USB3 connection. I wish I could easily replicate the issue, but it seems to be occurring well into an imaging session (i.e., time-oriented rather than any specific action or setting if that mak...

I've begun to have severe issues with dropped frames with my ZWO ASI 294MC Pro/SharpCap combo. I am using the most recent (just posted) version of the 64-bit SharpCap at RAW 16 on USB3 with a brand new Windows 10 Dell laptop.As an example of what has started happening the last few nights, I started ...

Also: use SAVE AS VIEWED which produces an 8 or 16 bit PNG file There is no "SAVE AS VIEWED" in the current version of SharpCap. It is either "Save with Adjustments," which "will save the image with the Live Stacking adjustments applied (i.e. after histogram adjustments and colour adjustments have ...

Greg, I'm curious. Exactly what are you trying to improve about your image? From your display histogram, it looks like you could be clipping the black level. You may be able to regain some lost nebulosity by moving the black level slider slightly to the left. Of course, you may have already examined...

I've wondered about this as well. What would be the result of an out of memory error? Would it cause SharpCap to crash, or display some sort of error message? In other words, how would one know if an out of memory error occurred?

Yep, agree with all that. But I think you can do all the tweaking of color and stretching in the LS histogram (not touch the display histogram at all) and see the effects in the display histogram. (They won't be reflected correctly in the LS histogram since, as you say, that is using the raw data di...

I use the freeware GIMP for post processing. I'll have to see whether the PS features you use have cohorts in GIMP. I know most of them do, but I don't know about setting a threshold level for a gray point or whether there are tools like an HLVG filter or a Colormancer Boundary Noise Reduction Filte...

Really nice! How do you keep the star bloating down while stretching? Did you do all the stretching in SharpCap, or did you apply further stretched afterwards in Photoshop? (I'm curious as to what "cleanup" you typically do in Photoshop.) You are saving the images "Exactly As Seen" in SharpCap, righ...

Yes, but my understanding is that's not using the seeing monitor feature of being able to filter the captured frames.

I haven't actually tried using this yet, but for one of the objects I would like to use it on (Jupiter), it would be helpful to have an additional capture length criterion. Since Jupiter rotates so rapidly, it is usually advisable to limit captures to one or two minutes in order to avoid rotational ...