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I bought a second hand 533 MC a couple of days ago, I was made up that the sky was clear that night so I was able to test it, wen i was imagen with nina I starting live staking with sharcap and as the images were staking i notice that the hot pixels where not aligning, and when I try to process then with siril and autostrech the image this is the result, staking them with siril didn't work, After dark subtraction, the image contains many negative pixels (99%), calibration frames are probably incorrect was the message every time i try but i tuck the calibrations frames at same temperature and gain , I was using a zwo 585 before that with not problem at all, is it the camera or im i doing something wrong

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Welcome, we share the same camera, the 585 is a little gem

That make sense, I didn’t check that, thanks for the reply

Ascom zwo driver

Yes it always does, and it was till I change the zwo driver to the Scot driver

Ascom not ascot, sorry fat fingers

Hi, my guiding zwo camera was stoping every few minutes, I searched for any solutions and the most frecuente answer , because my imaging camera is a zwo as well, was to change the driver to a ascot zwo driver for the guide camera on phd 2, it solve the problem straight away but the total error, the one between brackets, is not showing, any one have any ideas why this happened, thanks

i will give that a go, thanks for your reply Steve

i know, been waiting to set everything together for ages, been a christmas present, i never spected it was going to end up like this, but as they say there are worst things in life, as Steve said before, i fee sick now but hopefully all be forgotten and back out there soon

exactly, im sure i won't do that again

yes i just check and it is 5 and 12 volts

the pegasus i got is the first one out, no usb ports, i conected the usb pord with both cameras directly from the pegasus, the pegasus and usb hup are still working but no life on the cameras, you learn from your mistakes unfortunaly,

now i feel like crying, looks like i wont be able to enjoy my present for a wile, thanks Steve for your help

I did power the usb hub thru the pegasus, you recon that could be the problem

yes to both and not even flicker when connecting, im not computer savi but i had everything connected and working in my other setup but now is just dead, if it wasn't because im a 60 year old man, i will cry my eyes out

hi David, i have tried everything, usb power hub, direct to laptop and mini pc, with pegasus box, without, there is not conflict on phd2 because phd2 is not even conecting to any of the 2 cameras, i just tried what Steve said before, deleted every program on my laptop, downloaded the latest zwo drivers and ascom platform with no luck , still cameras are no connected message, before i connected to the mini pc the cameras were working fine but since then they stopped working even if I'm disconnected from the mini pc, just tried my daughters laptop got the zwo drivers on it and no luck again ,if i connect something on the same usb port you can hear the noise as it connects but if i connect any of the camaras nothing at all, starting to think that is somthing wrong with the camaras, witch it will be weird because both stop working at the same time

thanks Steve i will try that