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Hi, I suspect that the raw frames saved from live stacking are 'RAW' images from a colour camera, which means that the colour information is encoded in differences between neighbouring pixels. If you zoom in to the pixel level you would likely see a chessboard like brightness pattern. Sometimes this...

Hi, the log indicates that the failure is happening when SharpCap has requested the IAMCameraControl interface from the directshow driver. It looks like the IAMCameraControl interface is found, but there is a failure trying to wrap the result as a managed object so that the C# code in SharpCap can t...

Hi, it's definitely tougher setting up in the daytime as polar alignment by traditional methods is pretty much impossible. The options you have include... * A permanent setup - or at least leave the mount in position from polar aligning at night. * Polar align at night and mark where the tripod legs...

Hi, when you are using live stacking, the 'Save with adjustments' and 'Save exactly as seen' always save the image to PNG format - these options are designed to save an image for later viewing rather than further processing, so PNG is a good format as it is lossless but compressed and can cope with ...

Hi, just to report that I have now worked this one out and have a fix for the problem. It was an odd one - it took me a long time and alot of trial and error to find out that it only happens when the 'Connect hardware automatically when opening a camera' option is turned on! Once I knew that it turn...

Hi Trev, if you were saving the individual raw frames from the camera while live stacking, it would be worth looking at those to see if any of them show a similar effect. If they do then the data coming from the camera is glitching before it gets to SharpCap. In that case, the things to check would ...

Hi, you may have configured SharpCap to automatically restore the camera settings from the last use of the camera - if that is enabled then one of the settings that will be restored is the configuration of the display histogram stretch/invert option. So, if you had used the histogram adjustments a p...

Hi,


there's currently no way to turn off the message about the unsupported CPU - it will appear each time you run SharpCap to warn you that using certain advanced functions will cause the software to crash.

sorry,

Robin

Hi Geoff,

a nice, methodical, walkthrough of how to check the limitations of your mount. Thank's for sharing!

cheers,

Robin

I have few questions: 1 - Have I done right by using same Black level for Darks and Stacking? 2 - Have I done right when using Darks made through 500msec exposures' for Stacking 5sec. exposures? 3 - And last but not least - I am having difficult time to understand why Black level should be higher, ...