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Hi Jean-Francois, yes, there is a problem with the discoverability of some of the imports. Unfortunately using the python 'help' command tells you the parameters of a method, but not where to find the types of those parameters :( The issue you are seeing with movement speed = 1 is very much mount sp...

Hi, that message is most likely to come from the background subtraction code - it means there is no mathematical solution to the problem of what background pattern best fits the image, which is really odd. If you can make it happen at all regularly, please capture an image that causes the issue (wit...

Hi Peter, I don't think it is likely to be a camera issue - binning on CMOS cameras is all done in software (even for 'hardware binning' - that's just software running on the camera rather than the PC, which means the binning is done before the data needs to be sent down the USB cable, which allows ...

Hi Alan, glad that it is largely working :) With regard to the first point, I think I would agree with you, apart from two thing. The first is that the hardware binning rules exclude the maximum area for some cameras and binning settings, when that would be allowed by software binning rules. The sec...

Hi Jean-Francois, I did the Ctrl-Click thing, and also added an autosave before it actually runs the code when you press the run button - that way if it does crash you shouldn't lose anything. For the mount movement, you have to remember that you are talking to the SharpCap api, which is not 100% id...

Hi John, if you go to the field of view calculator here - https://astronomy.tools/calculators/field_of_view/ - then you can work out your field of view. For your equipment, I think it will be 2 degrees by 1.3 degrees. What does that size mean? Well, it's a patch 3.5cm by 2.25cm (not far off the size...

Hi, this can happen if something has cleaned up the cached version of the installer that is usually stored on your system - basically when it comes to uninstall, it doesn't have that cached version, so doesn't have the information needed to uninstall. It's a bit of a pain that windows install packag...

Hi, it looks like the sensor is being read wrongly so that you have junk data in that right hand section. I've seen cameras do this for a single frame sometimes when the controls are being adjusted, but I've also seen cameras that do similar things regularly, and it is often the sign of some sort of...

Hi Randall,

I went with the approach of holding down <ESCAPE> for now - pressing it will stop the current capture, holding it for more than half a second or so will cancel the whole set. This will be in SharpCap 4.1 updates from next week.

cheers,

Robin

Hi Craig, the big thing for high resolution cameras like the 2600 is having the 64 bit version - while SharpCap manages the memory used for captured frames and most processing tasks in detail, there are places where the system takes over memory management (like displaying things), and with high reso...