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Hi,
I purchased the Altairastro 678m camera, with 2 micron pixels for solar halpha imaging.
Although it runs ok on Altair Capture, Sharpcap 4.0 does not recognise it, although I have not got the latest Sharpcap version.
Why does it not work?

Thanks for advice.

Hi,

your version of SharpCap is simply too old - when Altair and other manufacturers release new cameras, they also update their software libraries to access the cameras. Those updates get put into the newest versions of SharpCap only. So, your SharpCap 4.0 has a version of the Altair library from about September 2023 - it will only support Altair cameras released by that date.

For newly released cameras like your 678M, you need to download and install the very latest version of SharpCap 4.1 from our downloads page (https://www.sharpcap.co.uk/sharpcap/downloads) - that should get the camera working for you.

cheers,

Robin