Delayed Capture

[Tfer]

Dr. Glover, would it be possible to add a Capture Delay to the Start Capture menu?

I use an ASI178MC with a fisheye lens as an All Sky camera. A couple of nights ago, we had a spectacular auroral display, and I’d appreciate the ability to setup the camera for an 8 hour capture (I generally grab a frame every 8 seconds under the Framerate menu) when I have to head out for the evening.

A simple HH:MM countdown before capturing begins would be perfect.

Thank you for your consideration.

Trent

[admin]

Hi Trent,

you can quite easily make this sort of thing for yourself using the sequence editor - I have a sequence set up for my all-sky camera that does pretty much exactly this...

The basics of the sequence are

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SEQUENCE
        WAIT UNTIL EVENT CivilDusk
        CAMERA OPEN ALTAIRGP224C
        TARGETNAME AllSky
        LOAD PROFILE "AllSky RAW8 to WMV"
        DELAY 10
        CAPTURE START
        WAIT UNTIL NEXT EVENT CivilDawn
        CAPTURE STOP
        CAMERA CLOSE
END SEQUENCE

You can see the same sort of sequence in the editor in the image below

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All that needs to be done is to fill in the right camera and the right capture profile to load to set the camera settings.
Once you have the sequence set up, save it (maybe call it allsky.scs). Then at any time in SharpCap you can chose 'Sequencer' menu, then 'Run...', select the 'allsky.scs' file and it will start running. In fact, once you've done that once, it will appear in Sequencer->Run Recent for easy re-use.

Hope this helps,

Robin