Hello.

I am pretty new to Astrophotography and very new (and non technologically savvy) when it comes to RPi and StellarMate.
I am trying to connect my Pentax K-70, I manage to connect it through MSC and Pentax Legacy Driver, however, when I try to preview an exposure sequence I can hear the camera shutter activate, but then nothing happens, and the camera goes dark and the software says CCD operation aborted, and then the camera freezes in the dark and nothing work, I have to literally take the battery off the camera and restart StellarMate.

I don't know if I am missing something that I should be doing, since I am not familiar at all with Linux or the RPi environment, maybe someone can help me and guide me through the correct setup? I would appreciate all the help I can get at this point, just want to spend my evenings taking images of the wonderful universe we inhabit.

I am attaching the logs as pictures, just in case, it can help.

Thanks!

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