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Hi Heinrich, the information comes from the 'settling' progress notifications that PHD2 sends once the dither is complete and it is waiting for everything to be stable again. If I am correct then it should be read as follows: * PHD2 is letting the dither settle * the current distance between the sta...

Ok, I will try the target name or observer name (if set) or some default, just to prevent the underscore from being there. Sorry, hadn't spotted the guiding logs (or maybe saw them and then got sidetracked before I had dealt with them). From the look of them all there are big movements (about 300 pi...

Hi, you are correct that in general you can only have one program talk to a particular camera at a time. Depending on the brand of camera, if you try to make a second program run the camera at the same time, it will either fail to open, freeze, crash or just generally behave weirdly. If you happen t...

I should add that this is not yet available in the version of SharpCap 4.1 that is available to download - it *will* be in the next update of SharpCap 4.1 though within the next week or two.

cheers,

Robin

Hi folks, thanks to a timely prompt from Don, I have just added this feature to SharpCap 4.1. In order to affect both the image on screen and saved data, it appears as a control in the preprocessing section on the right. Currently it sets any pixel where the brightness exceeds 99% to black. That's f...

Hi Cey,

thanks for confirming. Too many different zooms and histograms nowadays...

cheers,

Robin

Hi, firstly I suspect that the main issue you may be having is related to the 294 being a slightly awkward sensor to work with. There are ranges of gains where the sensor simply will not saturate to maximum pixel value, even if you take 30s exposures and shine a floodlight into the telescope. What y...

Hi,

thanks for confirming that the fix is effective - clear skies!

cheers,

Robin

Hi George, thanks for confirming the details :) @Menno, I think most of the rays around Merope there are coming from diffraction effects possibly if your aperture is not perfectly circular. A sub-aperture mask cut to a perfect circule may help control those a bit better if you wanted to get rid of t...

Hi folks, Another beta update : https://d.sharpcap.co.uk/download.html?version=4.1.9857.0&arch=x64 This week includes: * Ability to completely hide scrollbars on 2nd monitor display, so the display can be totally filled with the camera image (see settings) * First go at automatica reconnection f...