No colour with Live Stacking of Folder Monitor Camera
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:12 pm
I have been struggling to make use of SharpCap Pro ever since I bought the licence in November. I started trying to use it directly with my Astromodified Canon DSLR, but had no success making that work.
So as an alternative approach, for several months I have been successfully running KStars/Ekos/Indi on a Raspberry Pi4 for Polar Alignment, Plate Solving, Guiding/Dithering and image capture. In this time I have amassed a reasonable number of images ready for processing. So I tried to use the Folder Monitor Camera and Live Stacking in SharpCapPro. I had some very weird behaviours, seemingly unrepeatable problems, but notably monochrome stacked image even when Debayer Preview set to 'Force RGGB'. A few days ago SharpCap Pro updated to version 3.2.6269.0. I tried again with the updated version but no difference on the colour front.
I followed a couple of forum threads and uninstalled and cleaned the registry of remnants of the old installation to try to get a clean version working. Obviously I wasn't successful in completely removing all vestiges of the installation, because the new installation already had my Pro licence details and I thinks some other elements of the original set up in place.
This discussion all relates to a new HP Pavilion laptop with a 10th generation i5 CPU and 16GB RAM that I bought in November.
So I decided to install a further copy of SharpCap Pro on a desktop PC which has an 8th generation i5 and 8 GB RAM and was rewarded with a more consistent user feel, and colour in my live stacked image!
Any suggestions please on how I can start again afresh with this laptop please? The laptop was bought to be used by the telescope, whereas the desktop PC will stay indoors!
So as an alternative approach, for several months I have been successfully running KStars/Ekos/Indi on a Raspberry Pi4 for Polar Alignment, Plate Solving, Guiding/Dithering and image capture. In this time I have amassed a reasonable number of images ready for processing. So I tried to use the Folder Monitor Camera and Live Stacking in SharpCapPro. I had some very weird behaviours, seemingly unrepeatable problems, but notably monochrome stacked image even when Debayer Preview set to 'Force RGGB'. A few days ago SharpCap Pro updated to version 3.2.6269.0. I tried again with the updated version but no difference on the colour front.
I followed a couple of forum threads and uninstalled and cleaned the registry of remnants of the old installation to try to get a clean version working. Obviously I wasn't successful in completely removing all vestiges of the installation, because the new installation already had my Pro licence details and I thinks some other elements of the original set up in place.
This discussion all relates to a new HP Pavilion laptop with a 10th generation i5 CPU and 16GB RAM that I bought in November.
So I decided to install a further copy of SharpCap Pro on a desktop PC which has an 8th generation i5 and 8 GB RAM and was rewarded with a more consistent user feel, and colour in my live stacked image!
Any suggestions please on how I can start again afresh with this laptop please? The laptop was bought to be used by the telescope, whereas the desktop PC will stay indoors!