Lenny replied to the topic 'XISF support' in the forum. 1 year ago

I have come across a couple of random frames where it looks like it doesn't read from the camera correctly and you are left with a weird image artifact. See attached example top half of the image is ok but the bottom half is messed up. I have seen this happen at least 4 times over several nights. Usually, the next image will be fine. I don't remember seeing this issue while using the FITS format certainly not as frequently as I have seen of late. I'm not ruling out my own equipment but it seems to have cropped up since I switched to XISF. I'm running INDI server on a fanless pc on Ubuntu 22.04.02 and EKOS via my laptop. Images are stored remotely on the Ubuntu PC.

Has anyone else come across this issue?

Logging for attached affected image.
[2023-04-17T22:47:09.610 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 600.000-second image..."
[2023-04-17T22:47:09.618 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Altair AA26CTEC : "[INFO] FPS rate limit is set to unlimited "
[2023-04-17T22:47:09.633 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Altair AA26CTEC : "[INFO] FPS rate limit is set to unlimited "
[2023-04-17T22:57:12.915 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Altair AA26CTEC : "[INFO] Image saved to /Light/NGC 5195_Light_600_secs_002.xisf "
[2023-04-17T22:57:12.916 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Remote image saved to /Light/NGC 5195_Light_600_secs_002.xisf"
[2023-04-17T22:57:12.931 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Received image 2 out of 40."
[2023-04-17T22:57:12.954 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Dithering...
[2023-04-17T22:57:12.956 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Dithering..."
[2023-04-17T22:57:12.959 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Dithering..."
[2023-04-17T22:57:12.964 GMT Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Dithering started."



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