Hello, I've been trying to record transits of stars using a meridian circle and the TDI technique with a stx 16803 on a PC with windows 10 (Home edition) installed. I inclined the camera so that stars drift upwards but CCDops5 keeps telling me "Bad Camera Command". What should I do? I tried all kinds of binning, I have 118 inches of focal length, objects are at declination +31. What should be the total rows? I wrote 98000, 9800, 4000 nothing happened. Can this be a problem of the meridian circle not standing exactly still? or is it a software problem? For the picture below I'm guessing 200 rows are enough. What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Bernardo
Hi Bernardo, Please download the most recent version of CCDOPS and the SBIG Driver Checker. You are using a fairly old version. ftp://ftp.sbig.com/pub/SetupDriverChecker64.exe ftp://ftp.sbig.com/pub/InstOps.exe I can't guarantee this will work.
Hi Colin, Sorry for the delay. At the moment I can't say, if you didn't upgrade anything on the firmware, yes. CCDops5 sometimes crashes, other times says Bad Camera Command.