Hi,
I recently bought a second hand Atik 314L+ camera and being not familiar with the Atik Capture program, I initially did tests in Sharpcap 3.2.
Well it seemed alright, although I did not know why even on single exposure, the SharpCap program was taking a preview of an image even though I set preview option OFF.
Well, it seems Sharpcap lost control of the Atik camera not long after connecting to it. It saved .tiff files but when I chose .fits files it failed to save them: at this time I thought Sharpcap had lost control altogether of the Atik.
Question: is there a setting or option I should be checking for to make sure I am using the right Atik/ASCOM driver. At the moment, Atik 314L shows up on the camera select menu. I can also make the cooler work ok. The only thing is when taking an exposure e.g. 3 or 4 minutes, SharpCap seems out of sync or lose control of the camera.
Many thanks.
Kwong
Atik 314L+ problem
Re: Atik 314L+ problem = partly solved
Hi All,
I had another test today on the Atik 314L+. The first time I lost control of the camera and I was not able to establish the camera to save or capture a frame.
The second time, I set the frame rate to 1 every 4 seconds and preview mode off. I set the Capture menu to a specified number of frames, and the exposure was 10s or 30s.
Well this time it did work, and it saved FITS files !
So I am not sure why it sometimes works.
I enclose the log of the 2nd session. Maybe someone can tell me what could be a bug or is it just me not using it correctly ?
[file is compressed by windows to a smaller size, simply uncompress the file in windows to view it]
Many thanks.
Kwong
I had another test today on the Atik 314L+. The first time I lost control of the camera and I was not able to establish the camera to save or capture a frame.
The second time, I set the frame rate to 1 every 4 seconds and preview mode off. I set the Capture menu to a specified number of frames, and the exposure was 10s or 30s.
Well this time it did work, and it saved FITS files !
So I am not sure why it sometimes works.
I enclose the log of the 2nd session. Maybe someone can tell me what could be a bug or is it just me not using it correctly ?
[file is compressed by windows to a smaller size, simply uncompress the file in windows to view it]
Many thanks.
Kwong
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Re: Atik 314L+ problem
Hi,
there seems to be nothing going wrong in your second log. I would suggest that you try updating SharpCap (4.0.8395 which you are using is from November 2021 - there have been a lot of bug fixes and improvements since then). Please try 4.0.9562 from https://www.sharpcap.co.uk/sharpcap/downloads
It's also worth checking that you have the latest Atik core software installed - if you have an old version of that it may impact operation.
cheers,
Robin
there seems to be nothing going wrong in your second log. I would suggest that you try updating SharpCap (4.0.8395 which you are using is from November 2021 - there have been a lot of bug fixes and improvements since then). Please try 4.0.9562 from https://www.sharpcap.co.uk/sharpcap/downloads
It's also worth checking that you have the latest Atik core software installed - if you have an old version of that it may impact operation.
cheers,
Robin
Re: Atik 314L+ problem
Thanks Robin,
I have downloaded it and will test the Atik again.
Kwong
I have downloaded it and will test the Atik again.
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Re: Atik 314L+ problem
Hi,
do let me know if you still have problems - I have an Atik314L+ here (it's the only Atik camera I have), so in *theory* it should be the one that is most likely to work correctly out of all of them
cheers,
Robin
do let me know if you still have problems - I have an Atik314L+ here (it's the only Atik camera I have), so in *theory* it should be the one that is most likely to work correctly out of all of them
cheers,
Robin