Following up on my original post, I spent some time getting oacapture to work from www.openastroproject.org/downloads/

Initially I ran into some issues installing it due to dependency conflicts. I opened an issue describing the problem here: github.com/openastroproject/openastro/issues/494

Once I was able to install oacapture, I found that the NexImage 10 CCD worked out of the box without any additional configuration.

I believe one of the most obvious differences is that oacapture uses the RGB24 frame format by default whereas INDI / Ekos uses the 8-bit Bayer GRGR/BGGB format by default without any option to use RGB24 capture format. There are also 8-bit / 16-bit greyscale options and an option with a UUID for a name in the INDI control panel capture options. Interestingly, though, oacapture doesn't seem to have any issue when selecting any of the other capture formats that it has available regardless if they are color or greyscale.

Since I am able to use at least two other pieces of capture software without issue, and I only seem to have crashes with the INDI driver, I have to conclude that there is an issue specific to the generic v4l2 CCD driver provided by INDI when used with the NexImage 10. As there are no other obvious driver choices for the NexImage 10 CCD to test against, and there are posts that suggest the v4l2 driver is the correct one, I'm not sure what the next steps are from a user perspective.

It seems that I could use kstars / INDI for telescope control and oacapture for photography, but that's not an ideal situation.

Again, any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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