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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: No guiding with Live Stacking
- Replies: 2
- Views: 124
Re: No guiding with Live Stacking
Hi Louis, if you are using a real guiding application (PHD2 or an MGEN guider) then you can either use the recentering option or guiding, but not both. To turn on the guiding/dithering option, turn of recentering. The theory is that when you have PHD2 or MGEN guiding active, dithering is not necessa...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: CPWI crash/restart leaves SharpCap half working
- Replies: 8
- Views: 226
Re: CPWI crash/restart leaves SharpCap half working
Hi Chris, interesting... If the 'Stop' button is disabled as well as all the other controls then it probably means that SharpCap has become stuck trying to send the movement command to the focuser - ie the code is stuck in the ASCOM driver. We could confirm that if you could try running with the log...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: Spurious hot pixel groupings occasionally appearing in some master darks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 421
Re: Spurious hot pixel groupings occasionally appearing in some master darks
Hi Errol, brilliant! - that not only helps understand what is going on, but also gives a path to fix the problem by some sort of outlier rejection when averaging the dark frames. I have downloaded the shared files so that I can test my solution for this to make sure the sensitivity is appropriate to...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: SC losing connection with focuser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 263
Re: SC losing connection with focuser
The lack of source code to the ASCOM drivers intrigued me, so I carried on digging. It appears it is not available... https://sourceforge.net/p/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/discussion/general/thread/79803561/ Of course, you could decompile the ASCOM driver with various tools available to convert .NET ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: How do I?
- Topic: Passing parameters to Python scripts from sequences
- Replies: 5
- Views: 201
Re: Passing parameters to Python scripts from sequences
Hi, my thought with the 'one line of python' suggestion was that you could either use it to set global python variables before running a script, or as you have suggested call a function that encapsulates a whole script and pass in the right parameters... I think I will add that as it is nice and eas...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: What's New
- Topic: New Feature : Support for ASCOM Cover/Calibrator devices
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1258
Re: New Feature : Support for ASCOM Cover/Calibrator devices
Hi, were you trying to switch the light on or off? I guess so, since the 30s timeout applies to those operations. SharpCap is expecting the light to enter the correct state within 30s of the command being issued. If you are switching on, the calibrator should go to the 'Ready' state, if switching of...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: SC losing connection with focuser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 263
Re: SC losing connection with focuser
Hi, interesting that the first error in the ASCOM log is 'A device attached to the system is not functioning.', followed by 'Serial port is not connected'. I suspect that the failure to talk to the arduino is happening at a fairly low level (driver? USB?) to lead to the device not functioning error....
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
- Topic: Is Smart Histogram Scope, Camera or both Scope & Camera Dependent?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 157
Re: Is Smart Histogram Scope, Camera or both Scope & Camera Dependent?
Hi, the sensor analysis process and the data it produces is only influenced by the camera, not the telescope that you have it attached to (you can also do the analsis with a simple lens attached, or even with an open sensor). So, you only need to do the analysis once (or not at all if your camera is...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Bug Reports
- Topic: Feature Tracking bright area during capture
- Replies: 7
- Views: 274
Re: Feature Tracking bright area during capture
Hi Bertrand,
if possible the log and the ser file would be helpful to try to see if anything of interest in the log ties in with appearance of the problem in the SER file.
thanks,
Robin
if possible the log and the ser file would be helpful to try to see if anything of interest in the log ties in with appearance of the problem in the SER file.
thanks,
Robin
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Deep Sky Imaging
- Topic: Plate Solve & Sync
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4124
Re: Plate Solve & Sync
Hi, there are lots of causes that might lead to an initial large error (polar alignment, mount alignment, cone error, etc), but hitting the problem after the plate solving correction has tried to put the target into view is less easy to work out. If you are trying to image near the celestial pole an...