How do I select a Region of Interest (ROI)?

[EmeraldHills]

First, I love Sharpcap and I'm a regular subscriber to Sharpcap Pro. Your polar alignment procedure ALONE would be worth the price of admission. Thank you for your continuing commitment to innovation and excellence.

I just purchased a new ZWO ASI2600MC Pro. The Region of Interest command appears not to be available. This concept interests me, especially since the ASI2600 has such a wide FOV. Is there something I need to do to enable this control? ... or, if it's not provided by ZWO, does that mean I won't be able to use that control with this camera? Thank you for any help you can give.

Doug
Louisville, KY, USA

[admin]

Hi Doug,

getting the ROI function to work in SharpCap is a two-step procedure – first you choose a smaller image resolution in the 'Capture Area' control. Once you've done that an ROI selection box will appear just below the Capture Area - you can drag this around to select what part of the sensor you want to use.

Cheers, Robin

[EmeraldHills]

Robin, thank you sooooooooooo much for your help. I'm just so sorry that i didn't know this before -- which meant you had to ask. But this is super-helpful. Thank you!!!

[GaryB]

Thought I should tag on to this thread instead of starting a new thread.

I took some footage of Saturn last night (Celestron Skyris 445C) which is probably too out of focus to use but it's all part of the learning process.

I tried to decrease the image size by using 'select ROI' but this option doesn't seem to be available in the camera control box.

Have read that a lower resolution needs to be selected for the option to appear but this is currently fixed at 1280 x 960.

The function is available and works in its iCap software, hopefully it's just a camera/app setting that needs changing.

Cheers, Gary

[admin]

Hi Gary,

unfortunately this is a limitation of some of the Celestron Skyris cameras - they don't have a facility to capture images except at the maximum resolution of the camera (at least none that I could ever get to work reliably with the ones I have here). Because of that SharpCap only offers the maximum resolution in the list and the various ways to select a sub-area are unavailable. Note that this behaviour varies from model to model in the range, so will not necessarily apply to every Skyris camera.

cheers,

Robin

[GaryB]

Thanks Robin, I suspected that might be the case.

I will hopefully upgrade soon.