Collin replied to the topic 'New Camera - well new to me !' in the forum. 5 years ago

Hi burr.

Finally, I've built my rig.

I bought one of these cameras too.

I had it out last night all ready to start some real testing but I could not get it to see stars. :( I messed with the numbers for quite a while but I had no luck. I haven't found the magic numbers yet.

I've tested the camera during daylight with Kstars video preview and it seems to work fine. If I try to capture an image though the Fits viewer just shows a big mess.

Would you be willing to share your settings with me ?

There were a couple of other things I had problems with. I can't set the camera to operate in 12 bit mode. The driver says it's running in 8 bit mode. I've looked everywhere I can think of but I haven't found where to change this.
The driver often reports that it can't get the temperature from the camera, have you seen this ?
Lastly, when I did a "capture and solve" the astrometry module would crash. I don't think there's anything wrong with the module, it probably crashed because it was called with no data.

Anyway, interested in your thoughts and if you share your settings I would be very grateful.

Kind regards,

c

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