Comet Live Stack

[rac19]

I am probably doing something wrong, but tonight I can't get Live Stack ignore the stars or lock onto the comet C2022 E3 ZTF.

[admin]

Hi,

the screenshot is showing many stars highlighted and about 41 detected - in comet mode you should only ever get one highlighted and one showing as detected. Had you only just switched to comet mode when you captured this image? If there has not been a new frame from the camera since switching on comet mode, you might see this.

1% is very high for the detection threshold - probably 0.01% is more usual.

I would suggest clearing the stack after changing to comet mode, which should ensure that all previous stars are forgotten.

thanks,

Robin

[rac19]

Thanks Robin,

I will try that next time, clouds permitting.

EDIT: I must admit that I wasn't sure whether the detection threshold should be high or low.

By the way, after Clearing the stack, I get an error saying that my hard drive is full. I suspect that it might be because the counter fir the raw frames is reset to 0 (or 1?) and Sharpcap starts to reuse fike names that already exist. My work around, for now, is ti change the target name slightly so that a new folder is created.

[admin]

Hi,

yes, there have been a few cases where the overwrite of a file has been mis-shown as a disk full error. I *think* I have dealt with all the ones I know about, so please try the very latest version and see if it still happens. Also, check the 'Filename' settings. If you are getting overwrite errors then you should get a warning when you go to the filename settings telling you to adjust your templates. If you are not using custom templates or do not see a warning, please send me a screenshot of those settings so I can investigate further.

cheers,

Robin