I'm likely to start work soon on an ASCOM driver for the SX AO unit, and was wondering if anyone would be interested in helping with the testing... Bret...
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totolesbaloches
Apr 21, 2012 5:05 pm
Hello I have a SX AO, your drivers ASCOM is to manage with PHD for sample Laurent www.felopaul.com...
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bretm151
Apr 29, 2012 6:16 pm
I have uploaded a new version of the unstable camera driver that adds experimental support for the new 674/694 cameras. I had hoped to wait until I had tested...
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Terry Platt
tcplatt
Apr 29, 2012 8:57 pm
Hi Bret, It looks good with the H674. I’ll try a 694 later. Regards, Terry From: bretm151 Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:15 PM To: sx-ascom@yahoogroups.com ...
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Kevin Quin
astrovienna
Apr 29, 2012 9:17 pm
That's interesting, because I tried 2.1.1.2 this morning on my H694, and it seems to work fine. All I've done so far is to take a couple test exposures, but...
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bretm151
Apr 30, 2012 3:17 am
... Kevin: All I had to add was the proper names for the new cameras. 2.1.1.2 tries to "guess" how to access a camera that it doesn't recognize, and the 4 new...
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Kevin
astrovienna
Apr 30, 2012 3:48 am
Even more interesting! The thing is that the new driver does not seem to be working. I just played with it a while ago. In Neb2, I select ASCOM Camera, then...
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bretm151
May 6, 2012 4:04 pm
I have spent some time trying to understand this, and I have a theory about it. The latest unstable camera driver I posted is an ASCOM 6 driver that...
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bretm151
May 7, 2012 1:18 am
If you are running an application that would not talk to unstable driver I posted last week, I have created a new driver that might work better for you. You...
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bretm151
May 7, 2012 1:23 pm
... Kevin: Can you get the exact version of Nebulosity that tried with? Thanks, Bret...
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Kevin Quin
astrovienna
May 7, 2012 1:56 pm
2.5.3b. I think this is a new beta Craig put together to add native support for the H674/694. With this beta, my H694 works natively and with the 2.1.1.2 ...
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mounioloux
May 15, 2012 4:55 pm
Hi I've just received my lodestar yesterday and I installed the win7 64 bit drivers from the SX website as well as downloaded the ascom drivers. I am used to...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
May 15, 2012 10:34 pm
Stephen: I am having the same problem and was working on it when the hard drive in my laptop failed last weekend. Bret...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
May 15, 2012 10:50 pm
Hi bret, Did you experience the same problem with PHD? I went into EQalign quickly to make sure it recognized the ascom camera and I can't say the strips were...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
May 15, 2012 11:33 pm
Assuming your strips are the same as my strips, I think there is more than one thing going on. First, the Lodestar is interlaced, which means that the software...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
May 16, 2012 2:07 am
Bret, I'll try to take a screenshot of the lines I have so you can tell me if we are experiencing the same thing. Stephen ________________________________ ...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
May 16, 2012 2:54 am
Bret, check out the 2 attached files. does it look similar to what you're experiencing? Stephen ________________________________ From: Stephen Mounioloux...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
May 16, 2012 3:35 am
Stephen: You have the same banding as I'm seeing. At least I know someone else who will be excited to test it too... ... Bret...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
May 17, 2012 5:04 pm
Bret For sure, just let me know if I can anything to help. I will be unavailable next week but I will at my dark site this week-end. Stephen ...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
May 17, 2012 5:44 pm
I appreciate the offer to help. At this point I think I can hunt this with my Lodestar and have you independently verify the fix. My laptop hard drive crashed...
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bretm151
May 18, 2012 1:44 pm
I did a bunch of research last night, and I think I have a much better understanding of what is going on with Lodestar + sxASCOM as compared to Lodestar +...
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Terry Platt
tcplatt
May 18, 2012 3:12 pm
Hi Bret, Once your exposures are less than the download time, you are almost forced to make two separate field exposures, or the field brightness is too...
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bretm151
May 22, 2012 12:12 am
Can be found at: http://www.daddog.com/ascom/sxcamera...
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chasfranks71
Jun 2, 2012 1:30 am
Hi Brett, I would be pleased to help. My guiding camera currently, is an SBIG ST-i. I replaced my Lodestar with this because of the benefits of its internal...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
Jun 4, 2012 1:51 am
Hi Bret, I was able to test the new driver you've uploaded (v2.1.1.3). PHD is looking much better but for some reason the other program I use with ascom...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
Jun 4, 2012 2:46 am
Bret, I am a big doubt. What is the new version you were referring to? I was looking at your website and just saw a V3 that is dated 05/21... which would match...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
Jun 4, 2012 2:52 am
Bret Well I just tested V3 and it's giving me an error: can't connect to the camera. After selecting Ascom in PHD and after selecting Lodestar in the ascom...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
Jun 4, 2012 3:36 am
Stepen: It is the version 3 driver that contains the fixes. I'll update the download page - I must have forgotten to do that with the last release. When you...
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Bret McKee
bretm151
Jun 4, 2012 3:41 am
Stephen: I have used PHD with the new version, but I requires a recent version (I think 1.13.1) version of PHD. You can get it from the Stark Labs prelease ...
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Stephen Mounioloux
mounioloux
Jun 4, 2012 3:49 am
Bret, I did test it but unfortunately it can't connect to my lodestar, not sure what's up. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. I did...
