It is not Selective Suspend, it is not Power Management. Checked long ago, and regularly since. My first USB problem is that my mount is too...
So far (though I'm fighting a camera-disconnect problem when taking images at very high cadence, as with flats), my flats have indeed been...
Thanks, William, I'll certainly keep this in mind. Probably I'll first test the reproducibility of a series of flat exposures shorter than I'll...
OK, I have my first working flat images on the new system. OTA: PlaneWave CDK 20 f/6.8, no reducer. Flat panel = Alnitak Flat-Man 24. Camera =...
All good to know. Thanks, Colin. If taking flats much shorter than 1-2 seconds turns out to be advantageous, I'll report back here.
Perhaps. A good idea. In fact, in High Gain I may as well take flats shorter than 1 second to keep the flat panel brighter. To that end: do you...
On my new AC4040 (DLAPI 2.7.1.0, firmware 14), I cannot set the Stacking Sub-exposure in DL Config to 1 second. The Aluma AC manual (v.1.06, page...
OK, you were right, it was my own blunder--my ASCOM was back at 6.4 SP1. After updating ASCOM to 6.6 SP1, all seems well, so let's call this...
Hi, Colin, The scope PC runs Win 10 Pro x64, ASCOM etc is up to date, and the pc has no groups and almost never runs Admin privilege (I will...
I just tried twice to install the DL ASCOM drivers on my Win 10 Pro scope PC, and got an error "Unable to register the DLL/OCX". Rebooting the PC...
Closing the shutter after significant idle time is a good idea (I don't know yet whether mine does that)--but it probably doesn't solve the...
On (quite successfully) bench-testing my new AC4040M (firmware rev 14) before first installation on scope, I noticed that the camera's shutter is...
I agree that there may well be a lot of work involved. If I'm going to do proper photometry with my new scope and AC4040 FSI, it seems I'm already...
Flat darks exactly matching flats are impossible with ACP's flats algorithms. There has to be a better way. Exposure scaling, at least within a...
(Sorry if this goes on, but believe me--this is the short version.) We've been hearing for nigh a decade now that "CMOS shouldn't be treated the...
Thank you very much, Doug. Years ago, a couple of early CMOS adopters (not SBIG cameras) had insisted that darks be taken the same night as the...
Really? No one? (here or at AAVSO, either, so far) How can anyone do CMOS photometry without knowing this? Well, ok--guess I'd best keep my CCD...
For the Aluma 4040, I understand that exposure times, temperature, and imaging mode of dark frames should match the corresponding light frames. My...
If true, this makes CMOS a non-starter for me. I will absolutely not spend half of each night taking darks. My photometric programs take many...
Good to know, thanks. AFW-12-50R seems to be the ticket, then. Now I can design the adapters to my existing rig, ensure proper backfocus, etc....
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