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Live Stack: lot of Frames Ignored

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:13 pm
by scalp007
Hi All,

When I used SharpCap in DSO (here with M57) with my ZWO ASI385MC on my CELESTRON C8 I had a lot of frames ignored, example here: 21 stacked and 58 ignored
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Please, do you have any ideas in order to have more frames stacked and less ignored ?

Many thanks for your help.
Regards,

Sylvain

Re: Live Stack: lot of Frames Ignored

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:18 pm
by admin
Hi,

look in the 'Status' tab to see how long stacking each frame is taking - if it is over 2s then the reason is that new frames are arriving before the previous frame has finished stacking. The right fix in that case is to use longer exposures!

If that isn't the case then check the brightness filter which you have enabled to see if that is dropping frames, otherwise watch the Log tab which will tell you other info that will help point to the cause of ignored frames.

cheers,

Robin

Re: Live Stack: lot of Frames Ignored

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:59 pm
by NeilG
another thought - the C8 @f/10 has quite a narrow field of view and Sharpcap may not be finding enough stars in order to stack properly. Maybe need to play with the # of stars and other factors that could affect how many stars can be seen - maybe increase exposure & gain.

I get a similar problem with my C11 - especially when doing RGB as sometimes the focus is a little off depending which filter is being used - this can also confuse Sharpcap I'm having terrible trouble with M27 at the mo. All I do is not to use livestack, but the normal capture process.


Hope this helps
Neil

Re: Live Stack: lot of Frames Ignored

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:59 pm
by scalp007
Hi Neil,
Hi Robin,

Thanks for your tips, I will try them the next time and get a feedback to you.

Regards,

Sylvain

Re: Live Stack: lot of Frames Ignored

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:19 pm
by RMSQueenMary
I had a similar problem. I lower the frame rate. That helps for me.

Re: Live Stack: lot of Frames Ignored

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:42 pm
by galljj
+1 on the frame rate issue. Also, try playing with the black level and digital gain settings.

john

Re: Live Stack: lot of Frames Ignored

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:45 pm
by galljj
Also, I note that you have gain set to auto. I'm not sure what value that might be - but for your camera folks often use gain of 350 or higher.

john