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hi, apologies if this is not correct location for this question Trying to setup for guiding for first time with these cameras ASI385 MC and ASI290 mm mini , when both connected on usb3 and USB 2 respectively only the ASI290 appears and is duplicated. Both on USB2 appear correctly Have looked at various forums and have checked the details below but nothing has helped with this. Guide camera ZWO ASI290 mm mini connected by usb 2 port and ZWO ASI385 MC for imaging to USB 3 port both with new 2 meter usb cables Sharpcap v3.2.6477 10 year old Toshiba laptop No obvious -
I recently got an Orion StarShoot Astrophotography Camera and have had difficulty getting it to work right. The software that comes with it AstroCap seems horrible. The start/stop mechanisms are vague, the images won't appear. The best I've been able to do is see scan lines and some color light or dark variations on the screen after messing with the exposure and the gain. Popping the camera into the reflector or the refractor telescope yields nothing. I'm told there is other software that is better supported and more current including SharpCap and NINA. However so far neither of th -
Hi, I'm having trouble with my set-up and I suspect that the Eagle3 isn't man enough for the ASI2600. I can connect SharpCap fine and control the camera but as soon as I hit live stack SharpCap freezes or exhibits some totally undpredictable behaviour and cannot be shut down. Hooking up my guide camera to SharpCap (ASI120MM) and everything works as expected. I'm thinking that the ASI2600 sensor size is too much for the processing power of the Eagle3. Has anyone managed to get a high pixel count amera working through SharpCap and the Eagle? I'm anticpating a no, so a follow up question what oth
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Hello everyone, I'm wondering if I could get some help, sort of ripping my hair out a little. I have the EXOS2 PMC-8 and last night I used Sharpcap to Polar align, I set the mount up as usual and adjusted until Sharpcap said excellent Polar alignment. So my next step was to do a 3 star alignment I was using a program called Explorer Stars to achieve this, so when I asked the mount to slew to the first star it was way off even in the finder scope, is that normal? So I used the controls to get the star in my FOV and centred it, it was the same for the next two stars way off. so I did
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Three months ago I remounted the EQ8 in the observatory after my friend Chris made me a pier extension to raise the mount 15 cm. Unfortunately, a combination of cloudy nights, holidays, it not getting dark until early in the morning, and my lovely wife being ill has meant that it took until tonight to get the EQ8 re-polar aligned. SharpCap's polar alignment tool makes this pretty easy. I used my Lodestar x2 mounted on a 60 mm finder/guider. I'll aim to try to see if I can get this even closer with full drift alignment on another night, but my guess that'll be close enough for
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From the album: 2015 Various
My best attempt at jupiter with the 200p at 5x barlow f25 5000mm© Aenima
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The Sun, 14 May 2019 One significant active region AR2741 One reasonable prominence on the limb LUNT LS60THa Solar scope, ASI 1600MM and ZWO Tilt Adjuster Cheers Dave
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I am starting to get to grips with some of the features on Sharpcap and last time out I tried to use the focussing assistant using a bahtinov mask. The first thing I noticed is how sensitive it is. The attached screenprint involved the tiniest movements of the fine focusser knob on my Star71, which caused it to sweep from +1 to -1 without stopping in the middle. I decided I wasn't going to do any better than that (but could probably waste an awful lot of clear-sky-time trying!), so decided to accept that. After all, from what I have read, an FWHM of about 1 is reasonable. But now com
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Outside there is something coming out of the sky that strongly resembles the Atlantic Ocean being poured through a seive, so I thought I would give the 'sensor analysis' option in sharpcap a go on one of my cameras. This resulted in the table attached. I'm sure all the figures are great, but as to helping me decide which gain setting I should use for this camera, I am not a lot wiser. There definitely seems to be something strange (impressive?) happening to the read noise between 60 & 61, but it continues to decline after that so I'm not sure that gets me very far. So, it's time
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solar imaging Mono or colour imaging cameras - which is best?
Davenn posted a topic in Imaging - Solar
Hi guys After seeing a lack of solar imaging talk in the imaging discussion and thinking my thread may get lost in there decided this is probably a better place where the active solar imaging guys are. I am using the 6MP ZWO ASI 178MC (colour camera) on my LUNT LS60THa with Sharpcap capture software and have a couple of questions regarding the use of..... I read in another thread some one saying that a mono cam is better than a colour one as it gives better resolution I have been often using the mono mode in Sharpcap and I seem to notice it is better quality than in co -
Setting up all the software on my win10 laptop and getting things to talk to one another is a nightmare. I'm starting a new thread, so I can post all the problems I am having, one at a time, so issues don't get confused. This will also hopefully help anyone coming to similar situations later, as the problems and answers will not be interlaced. First issue: APT does not detect ZWO camera. I have got the camera (ZWO) drivers installed and sharpcap can see it and will connect to it properly. However, when I try to connect the camera in APT, the only CCD options it gives me are SBIG
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Hi I have recently purchased a ZWO ASI120MC-S webcam from FLO. I wanted to try it the other night so I decided to get some test images for the moon. I was using Sharpcap for this. I manged to get the video and was using Autostakkert to stack it. On the final stacked image I can see that there are some strange vertical lines. I have attached a picture of that. There is also a zoomed in image of a region and I can see some small squares almost resembling the pixels on the sensor. Below are my capture settings as given by SharpCap. [ZWO ASI120MC-S] Debayer Preview=On Pan=0 Tilt=0 Output -
hi guys All my lunar imaging has usually been done with DSLR camera and telephoto lenses, usually the Canon 100-400mm and a x2 teleconverter Last nite I finally fired up the new scope and did some imaging Skywatcher 120mm x 1000mm fl EVOSTAR Black Diamond The mount is a HEQ5 PRO so for the first lunar image through that scope with a ASI1600MM camera and Sharpcap capture software Dave
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The Sun in Ha 21 Apr 2018 Absolutely crap seeing conditions... even the "blue" parts of the sky between the cloud gaps had a high haze. Nice new active region (AR2706) with spots and a nice prominence showing a large detached section Lunt LS60THa, ASI 1600MM camera and Sharpcap capture software Full Disk AR2706 Prominences and nice large detached section (haven't seen one that well detached before) Dave
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Apologies for asking a question that must have been asked a thosand times before - but where can I find a simple step by step guide to capturing and processing a planetary image? The bright shiny red ZWO camera arrived today , and I have got it talking to FireCapture on the laptop, and even making a short movie. The movie is monochrome (the camera label assures me it's colour) but I mustn't quibble. But then what happens? Does SharpCap sort and stack the frames? I crave simplicity, and (preferably) written answers (on one side of a postcard). Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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With the couple of decent nights we had last week I was able to finally get a view of Jupiter at opposition this year! The problem I've been having is when I've processed the videos. I've been taking videos in RAW8 at a custom resolution (720×240) with a ASI120MC camera in sharpcap. I noticed that the image would jump about periodically causing part or all of Jupiter to flash to different parts of the frame. I hoped that when aligning with PIPP and then limiting the number of frames in Sarpcap to the 10% highest quality images that it'd go away but when I finish the image I get the strang
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What am I doing wrong to get planetary images like these attached? Or maybe I should be asking what am I actually doing right? I've tried a few times to images planets with my QHY5L-ii mono camera through the C9.25 both with and without IR/UV block filter and get the same blurred results every time. I've checked collimation, and focus using a star mask. It's pretty good really, and I know the camera works fine because I've used it to get some good lunar shots. I'm imaging thought sharpcap software and have processed the images with registax or autostakkert and get very sim
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Hi, I have a HEQ5 Pro with a QHY5L-IIc astrocamera, which I run with SharpCap (never got EZ-Planetary to work). When I start SharpCap, it in turn starts EQMOD. So far so good! I then start Stellarium via Stellarium Scope (or I start Stellarium Scope first and then SharpCap). If I choose an object to monitor in Stellarium, and let Stellarium slew to it, I constantly get Timeout error in EQMOD, either directly or after a short while. If I dont start SharpCap, i.e. if I dont stream video, I don't get timeout error in EQMOD. I have installed the Ascom QHYCCD capture
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I'm having trouble with the current version of Sharpcap "seeing" my 8 position Xagyl filter wheel. An earlier version worked ok but not the latest. Am I missing something?
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asi1600mm cooled ASI1600MM cooled and Sharpcap
Starrymessenger posted a topic in Discussions - Cameras
Just installed a new ZWO ASI1600MM cooled, and a Xagyl EFW8, running Sharpcap on a PC running Windows 10. Version 2.9 of sharpcap does not give the option of 16 bit, nor is the cooling interface showing up in sharpcap. In fact, there is virtually no option for single frame capture, multiple images (to do Photometry). There only seems to be video capture available. Version 2.7 of sharpcap has the correct interfaces; ie: I can select 16bit mono, choose to save as .fits file, set camera temp etc etc---none of which is available in Sharpcap v 2.9. Am I missing something? I've searched th -
Over the last few months I've been trying my hand at imaging DSOs, in learning to do this I've found that you really can't get away with exposure times longer than a few seconds without motors and a solid polar alignment. Initially I tried this by eye using Polaris, the best I achieved was around 8 seconds of exposure before the inevitable drift of whatever is in my view. I thought about buying a polar scope or learning the drift technique, then I happened upon the polar alignment facility in Sharpcap 2.9 on this forum and gave it ago. Jut thought I'd write a few things about how that's gone f
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Hi folks, thought I'd post here as more people here seem to be using the Live Stacking feature of SharpCap now. SharpCap - if you haven't encountered it before - is a free Astro-focused capture application for Windows. SharpCap includes support for a wide range of cameras - including QHY, ZWO, Basler, QHY, Webcams, Frame Grabbers, ASCOM and others. Any camera that SharpCap supports can be used in live stacking mode, although to get decent results you will need to be able to set exposure lengths of about 1s or more. Live Stacking includes an alignment option (on by default)
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Hi to everyone Im looking for anyone who has the QHY5LIIc for basic tips on settings to use on sharpcap or any other software to get the best results on Jupiter. I've recently upgraded from the good old faithful SPC900 which I used with sharpcap with some really good results, but really struggling to get good results with new camera. I know the seeing hasn't been great & the stinking jetstream gets in the way to but I just can't seem to get the setup right thanks -
Really frustrated with AS2. Ive taken a 2000 frame vid of jupiter using Sharpcap with QHY5L-IIc. The image has Jupiter & two of its moons. I normally run it through PIPP to centre it & Take out low quality frames & then run it through AS2 but when I do that it centres the planet & I lose the two moons, so I thought just run it through AS2 to stack it but I get "access vialation at address 00501DAA in module "Autostakket" write of address 00000000" I then click ok & get "failed to open file framecount: 0" Anybody got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks
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Hello helpful forum people, I'm trying to sort through everyone's posts here on this topic, and I don't see if there has ever been a solution found. But first, thanks to Robin (I hope I have that name right) for writing SharpCap, it's got a great interface and I really appreciate his attention to detail and his contribution to astrophotography. So the problem, like most people report, is this: I'm using a Sony Vaio 64-bit AMD processor laptop running a totally fresh W7 with all the latest updates, and a Neximage 5 plugged into a USB2.0 port (I don't have the option to upgrade to 3.0
