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Hi,

yes, the border added is deliberately grey rather than black - the intention is to make it obvious that the border area is not real camera data. If it was set to black then it might be difficult to spot the difference between the border and the image background.

thanks,

Robin

Hi, currently SharpCap does not support custom ROI sizes with TIS/Celestron cameras when using the 'direct' SDK access to the camera - I am not even sure if (or how) the camera SDK supports such a thing. The DirectShow (webcam) driver access cannot support custom ROI - the ROI sizes are set by the c...

Hi, thanks for posting that - it's clear from that log that it is the call to ask the number of cameras that times out (SVBGetNumOfConnectedCameras) - this is something I can't do anything about in SharpCap, but hopefully SVBony might be able to fix it at their side. Can you pass that information on...

Hi, glad that is sorted - in theory it would be possible to write the code to deal with 16 bit depths, but it did not seem worthwile as high speed imaging is almost always performed at 8 bit (as soon as you set a high gain to bring up the brightness from a low photon arrival rate, the noise level go...

Hi, the current belief is that the end calibration value that you mention (about 75,000,000) is incorrect - the values for end calibration should typically be small (often smaller than the start calibration value, although that may seem contradictory). There is a long discussion in this thread - htt...

Hi, an interesting question - heavy light pollution already pushes down the length of sub-frames that you need to take - a fast scope has the same effect. I'm not sure that is necessarily a good thing as the amount of light pollution build up per pixel per second could be very large for a fast scope...

Ok,

thanks for the update - I will try to test via RDP to see if I can make any problems happen that way.

cheers,

Robin

Hi,

sorry, my mistake - I didn't spot the key piece of code that does disable the stabilization

The requirements for stabilization are :

* Camera must be in live view

and

* Camera must be in an 8 bit mode (RAW8/MONO8/RGB32/RGB24)

I suspect your camera is in 16 bit mode.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, just to let you know that a first draft of the new documentation is now available - see https://forums.sharpcap.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=4172 I would not really recommend starting any translation work on this verison just yet - I still intend to make further updates and add some small area...

Hi folks, SharpCap 4.0 is now getting closer to being ready to release - for the last few weeks I have been working almost entirely on bug fixing and documentation. The result of this is that there are a lot less bugs than there were a month ago and that the first draft of the SharpCap 4.0 User Manu...