Shouldn't be problem Brad. I use a different make of camera(s) with the KAF8300 chip and RBI pre-flash is used on those cameras without any...
Hi Brad. Try programming a short pause between exposures of ~1 min and see if that improves or brings some consistency between frames. The amp...
Hi Mike. With PI the calibration option "Optimise" should not be used if the dark frame has amp glow as the glow creates a false noise evaluation...
Hi Mike et.al. At the risk of muddying the waters further... If Doug can see nothing obvious wrong with your settings there are a couple of...
Hi Mike. While not specifically for astronomy systems, for cabling to and from electronic components in a distributed system it is good practice...
Thats a shame Carl, I was hoping that might be the answer. The only AO I ever used was a SX unit, many years ago, and not in MaxIm DL so not at...
Just a thought. In MaxIm DL v6, Camera Control, there is the option to set "Access camera and filter wheel from separate threads" (CPU usage...
One final thought... Make sure the power jack at the camera end really is 5.5/2.0 and not 5.5/2.1 or even 5.5/2.5, and inspect the plug to make...
As you have used an opto-isolator you can rule out ground loops, at least on the signal cable. A couple of other things to try, fit ferrite cable...
Hi James & Bradley. James, did you ever try a galvanic isolator on the RS232 port (optical isolator) to eliminate the ground loop possibility, as...
Just a “shot in the dark” here (pun intended), was cooling enabled and set to the same temperature as for the 2016 dark? The number of hot pixels...
Hi Mani. Yes this is always the case. Bayer matrix sensor versions of a particular design are always less efficient than the mono version. Peak...
Thanks Doug. The blog document web link is now working again. William.
Hi Colin, Doug... I wanted to post a link to one of your previous blog documents on another forum (SB) to help with an imaging artefact issue but...
Hello Marcus. It's not clear if you are looking for free or paid-for OS-X post-processing software. There is a free CCDOps Lite version for OS-X...
Hi Craig. Think I may have found it but without a camera I can't confirm. With the camera connected to the computer and powered up, but not...
Hi Craig I no longer have an SBIG camera to test but fan speed control was found by opening the Camera Control window, click Setup Camera button,...
Though not an Eagle owner/user myself I have been following reports on another astronomy forum of flaky USB port control with random disconnects...
Hello Eric Just an added point to check. I too run a Paramount MX, (original version) and had been experiencing increasingly frequent drop-outs...
Hello John. While you wait for an official response from Diffraction Limited I have had a look at a copy of CCDOps that I have here on a test VM,...
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