Image Issue Aluma AC4040

Hi all,

So the after my replacement camera was shipped back and reinstalled, I had a few evenings of testing with it and things were appearing to be OK. This evening, I logged in to begin setting up for a target, and when I did a quick exposure of the moon I noticed something different than normal. As you can see in this image, the camera is somehow chunking up the pieces of the image and mixing them up. Any idea why this is happening?

 

I will take an image tonight and save the FITS file to send. It happened for about an hour as I was trying to troubleshoot it (probably 10 or so images). Previous evenings I took photos of the moon with the same settings and had no issues. MaxIm DL was freezing up quite a bit as testing went on, so I reset it to the default configuration settings, rebooted several times, etc. and eventually the camera wouldn't register in Device Manager (something about failing to set the address). When Sam came in this morning he gave me a call and power cycled the camera. It is showing up in device manager again, so I'll update this thread this evening weather permitting.

Of note the only two things that were different when I logged in last night to the issues were as follows: (1) there was a time change / daylight savings / etc., not sure if that impacted the camera's timing at all? (2) I began using the guiding functionality for the first time on the previous evening and began to do the same on this evening (i.e. camera two, expose, calibrate, then track). While I had exposed with the guiding camera before just to test operation, I have been trying to track with the L-600 only at first so I could take measurements on its accuracy for a baseline of improving it with the guiding system.

 

I've attached a rar file containing two fits images from last night before the camera lost connectivity in device manager. These were taken via auto run, after the 10 or so moon issue images. I wanted to try to see if longer exposures, filters, etc, would have any difference. They came in quite distorted but I couldn't tell whether that was the same or related to the appearance of the moon. The object was meant to be the Black Eye Galaxy which I've shot previously (though briefly) with this same camera and it was in focus at that time.

 

Here are all the logs from that folder. Correction to above (used Windows Zip instead of RAR... had RAR on my brain due to some automation scripts I've been creating for image processing).

 

Ok, thanks Colin. Will update with those settings and follow up afterward.

 

Just a quick update, after power cycling the camera tests performed yesterday seemed to indicate that things were back to normal. Weather permitting I plan to test again this evening and report back here tomorrow.

 

Colin - I was able to take several photos last night that did not have the rearranging slice issue. Unclear what caused it, but if it happens again I'll open a new thread or try to amend this one.