sharpcap and PHD2 with miniscope/qhy5-ii-m
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:37 pm
Hi
up front I'm using this for the first time a miniscope with qhy5-II-M. (is the name 5-ii-m or 5-11-m?)
It's daylight and I'm pointing the miniscope at the local trees.
In sharpcap I can see the trees using the following settings:
I usually see this error message
sharpcap frame rate too fast
live stack:
- individual frames
- no controls selected
capture format
- mono8
- 1280x960
- 1x1
- avi
camera controls:
- 0.44ms
- gain 55
- frame rate 1 every two seconds
- amp noise -- auto
- speed 0
usb traffic 30
image controls:
Gamma: 1.0
brightness: 0.0
Contrast: 0.0
in PHD2:
only static shows up, with all exposures.
Am I suppose to see an image in PHD2? In both programs, is there an auto detection setting that could put a usable picture on the screen, or does everyone setup focus, gain, etc.
Additional questions:
I noticed in previous postings about miniscope, cable issues came up. How does one check cable integrety in the field? Could one program have a cable issue and the other not?
Thanks for looking at this. Any help would be very helpful
Cheers
Mike
up front I'm using this for the first time a miniscope with qhy5-II-M. (is the name 5-ii-m or 5-11-m?)
It's daylight and I'm pointing the miniscope at the local trees.
In sharpcap I can see the trees using the following settings:
I usually see this error message
sharpcap frame rate too fast
live stack:
- individual frames
- no controls selected
capture format
- mono8
- 1280x960
- 1x1
- avi
camera controls:
- 0.44ms
- gain 55
- frame rate 1 every two seconds
- amp noise -- auto
- speed 0
usb traffic 30
image controls:
Gamma: 1.0
brightness: 0.0
Contrast: 0.0
in PHD2:
only static shows up, with all exposures.
Am I suppose to see an image in PHD2? In both programs, is there an auto detection setting that could put a usable picture on the screen, or does everyone setup focus, gain, etc.
Additional questions:
I noticed in previous postings about miniscope, cable issues came up. How does one check cable integrety in the field? Could one program have a cable issue and the other not?
Thanks for looking at this. Any help would be very helpful
Cheers
Mike