Nebulosiity Frame and Focus

[CARAVAN65MAN]

Hi everyone,  having had a lay-off from using my Opticstar DS145C ccd OSC camera in preference for the Altair Hypercam 183C for sometime now, I'm back with the DS145C again, as my batch preprocessing and post picture processing has improved since I began using Pixinsight for the work.  The Altair Hypercam is a dream to use really and very user friendly, once you get used to shorter exposures  low or unity gain aquisition level and taking lots of subs to integrate (stack) the subs.  The DS145 uses Nebulosity as against Sharpcap Pro with the Altair camera and version Nebulosity 1.8.2 comes with the camera. Unfortunately, unlike Craig Stark's F & F video, when I try using Frame and Focus, the resolution is absolutely rubbish or should I say 'poor' to be more polite.  I have to resort to Opticstar's 'Starview' window, which is good but very small, not a good focusing aid really especially if using a Bhatinov mask which I prefer.

I wonder if a later version of Nebulosity say vs 4.00 will solve the problem, or is the 'Starview mode' somehow linked to this problem? Maybe I should dissable it when using Frame and Focus.

Regards

Dave

[dannybgoode]

F&F bins the pixels automatically to ensure adequate exposure using short shutter speeds. 

Binning by its nature halves the resolution hence the small window  

Simply zoom in using the slider near the top right of the screen. Job done. 

 

[Rush]

Nebulosity, open preferences from dropdown list, uncheck binning for F&F. You can even use fine focus or B.mask.

[dannybgoode]

7 hours ago, Rush said:

Nebulosity, open preferences from dropdown list, uncheck binning for F&F. You can even use fine focus or B.mask.

Nice - even better than my method.  Setting changed accordingly

[Rush]

9 hours ago, dannybgoode said:

Nice - even better than my method.  Setting changed accordingly

Glad  being helpful,

?heers