IC Capture problem

[Dave Smith]

Last night I had a good long session imaging the Moon which involved taking 138 avi files (74Gb). Mostly everything went ok but on 3 occasions I had the dreaded message "IC capture needs to close . . . . " and the computer would then freeze. When rebooted it would then not find the DMK camera although after a second reboot usually did. It always happened when stopping a recording so I guess that makes it a software problem. Has anyone else experienced this and if so what did you do?

Dave

[Merlin66]

I've only seen this message when IC looses connection ( or the power - I have the firewire model) to the camera....

[Psychobilly]

I ocassionally get the same problem... nothing that Astro Source suggested has fixed it yet...

When it happens I have to unplug the camera to power it down , reboot the pc and reconnect the camera to get it "working"

Peter...

[Dave Smith]

Thanks for the replies Ken and Peter. Not good news. If I disconnect the camera as you suggest Peter, that may save me having to do a second reboot.

Dave

[MikeD]

Looks like we had a very similar night, three reboots of the pc due to IC during a run of 120 AVI's on the moon with the DMK21.

to add to that I discovered that the replacement mother board I put in the obs PC (AMD Athlon) last week won't allow the cam to run at 60 fps so I was stuck with 30fps.

Mike.

[Dave Smith]

Looks like we had a very similar night, three reboots of the pc due to IC during a run of 120 AVI's on the moon with the DMK21.

to add to that I discovered that the replacement mother board I put in the obs PC (AMD Athlon) last week won't allow the cam to run at 60 fps so I was stuck with 30fps.

Mike.

Ouch! With 30fps it must have taken ages. As it was I was going from about 12:20am to 3:00am as the clouds started to come in. I only had two frames to go when it crashed and with the cloud coming it was a bit of a panic, but just made it.

Dave

[MikeD]

I did 60 second avi's, around 1800 frames. I started at around midnight after the moon stopped play with my DSO work.

I was stopped by the clouds at 120 avi's (3am) and I was only just about half way up the moon.

Congrats on getting to the end.

Mike.