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Hi,

good luck - I did wonder about the effect that moving the camera would have on focus. I guess if the camera has a 1.25 or 2" nosepiece rather than being fixed by a screw thread then you should be able to rotate it without signifiant movements affecting the focus...

cheers,

Robin

Hi, please try this new version : https://downloads.sharpcap.co.uk/tools/AviRescue2_x64.zip (the download is much larger this time because of a change in the way I package SharpCap and related tools - on the plus side, it should be completely self-contained - unzip to a folder and run, no need to ch...

Hi Tim, the camera settigns all look fine, but I did notice in the log that the QHY camera disconnected from USB at 21:32:49 and then reconnected a few seconds later. SharpCap can now handle this sort of event automatically - it will detect the disconnection and the reconnection and resume using the...

Hi, Dave is absolutely correct - debayering is the missing step. As a quick check, you can reload the original FITS file into SharpCap by using either of the two test cameras (there is a 'Browse' button in the 'Image' control on the right allowing you to choose an image file). SharpCap writes info i...

Hi John, glad to hear that you were able to recover some of the images. Those two certainly look good. Take a close look at the 'monochrome' images - if you zoom in and see a chessboard pattern at the pixel levels then they are saved RAW colour images and the colour can be recovered by using the cor...

Hi Steve,

thanks - I am downloading now and will take a look later today to see if I can work out what is going on.

cheers,

Robin

Hi, there is no automatic option to do the notification for you, but live stacking does have a drift graph tab which shows both the X/Y offsets of each frame on a scatter graph, but also the rotation of each frame. By watching this you could decide when the rotation had reached a suitable amount (sa...

Hi, yesterday I added some new scripting reachable code to allow this to be further refined. In the next update, there will be a SharpCap.DeepSkyAnnotation object available via scripting with the following methods/properties public interface IDeepSkyAnnotation { bool IsActive { get; } void Activate(...

Hi John, that's a rotten shame, sorry to hear it :( With hindsight it makes sense that the autoexpose function of the camera would be trying to balance the 'average' brightness of the image and perhaps end up bringing the levels up too high if there is a very small amount of bright area. Hope that s...

Hi,

please see this post - viewtopic.php?p=42055#p42055

The latest update to SharpCap includes support for ASCOM cover/calibrator devicwes.

thanks,

Robin