Is a racoon living in my telescope tube, or what?
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:40 pm
I'm having problems with many things that I was not having problems with in any part of the past.
Two things I will mention here that I hope you will agree makes in reasonable for me reboot (start afresh) my SharpCap driver.
1. about a week ago, when troubles began, I saw two symbols for SharpCap on my WINDOWS start up screen. There had been only one for about two weeks before the genesis of the second. I can right click on either one and do normally what is expected, for instance get here to the FORUMS or turn on my camera (ZWO ASI 178 MC) but I can't get a clear focus on anything now. It's like oil is on my mirror. I know it's not because the telescope works flawlessly by only visual use.
2. Gain use to be on a slider (like exposure) but now it is not. To the right of Gains on-off box for automatic operation is a box where I can type in a value where it is activated once I have moved the mouse over to an unused space and left clicked it once.
Could it be that I have unknowingly changed a default value while doing some LIVE STACKIN? It seems that most of my problems have increased and stayed with me since I started live tracking.
Another problem I have is focusing or even locating a bright star in the center of my SharpCap work station screen if the frames per second is say lower than 4 times a second. I don't seem able to get those kind of high frame rates any more at night. It seems that all I can use, no matter what I try is frame rates (rate of picture taking) well lower than 5 seconds per picture. It could be that this oily focus problems got to be fixed first before I can over come this latter problem. Frame rates seem peculiarly low now even in day time, like 3 frames per second,, observing the fire dept..
My son will be here about 4:PM EST tomorrow (Sat. Mar 30) and he will help me get what I need to open a FITS File. We plan for me to learn how to send you back a picture and that page that lists the camera settings. It's odd and unexpected but on each capture I get a third page that always asks the same question: Hello Carl, do you want to buy an Office Account?" Could this third page be causing any of my problems?
Thanks for any help you can give me. Carl Wagle
Two things I will mention here that I hope you will agree makes in reasonable for me reboot (start afresh) my SharpCap driver.
1. about a week ago, when troubles began, I saw two symbols for SharpCap on my WINDOWS start up screen. There had been only one for about two weeks before the genesis of the second. I can right click on either one and do normally what is expected, for instance get here to the FORUMS or turn on my camera (ZWO ASI 178 MC) but I can't get a clear focus on anything now. It's like oil is on my mirror. I know it's not because the telescope works flawlessly by only visual use.
2. Gain use to be on a slider (like exposure) but now it is not. To the right of Gains on-off box for automatic operation is a box where I can type in a value where it is activated once I have moved the mouse over to an unused space and left clicked it once.
Could it be that I have unknowingly changed a default value while doing some LIVE STACKIN? It seems that most of my problems have increased and stayed with me since I started live tracking.
Another problem I have is focusing or even locating a bright star in the center of my SharpCap work station screen if the frames per second is say lower than 4 times a second. I don't seem able to get those kind of high frame rates any more at night. It seems that all I can use, no matter what I try is frame rates (rate of picture taking) well lower than 5 seconds per picture. It could be that this oily focus problems got to be fixed first before I can over come this latter problem. Frame rates seem peculiarly low now even in day time, like 3 frames per second,, observing the fire dept..
My son will be here about 4:PM EST tomorrow (Sat. Mar 30) and he will help me get what I need to open a FITS File. We plan for me to learn how to send you back a picture and that page that lists the camera settings. It's odd and unexpected but on each capture I get a third page that always asks the same question: Hello Carl, do you want to buy an Office Account?" Could this third page be causing any of my problems?
Thanks for any help you can give me. Carl Wagle