I was just reading the notes for wxAstroCapture, and I'm now wondering if both wxAstroCapture and another program can both utilise the same parallel port at...
Hello Simon, Short answer from the far east (I am on holiday). No it is not generally possible to share the same parallel port at the same time. But this is...
I thought that might be the case .... I hope this is not too off topic, but what is the best way to control differing devices from your PC, via disparate...
... Low level access to a conventional parallel printer port can be done under say the DOS operating system simply by writing data to the appropriate location...
... apps. ... Hi Ken, and everyone else in fact, I'm a brand noob here. I have to agree about 8.04 (...he typed into Firefox...). To steal a line from a...
Hi, As already mentioned one has to take special means to write to the port when it is managed by a protected operating system. We use porttalk.sys - so any...
Hi Jon, Glad you find our prog useful :-) We are currently a bit on the lower working side - business, holidays - but we may get back to pace later this year,...
Hi, This looks like a great program. I have just installed it on my eee pc which is running Ubuntu 8.04. Your intallation instructions are great - some of the...
Hi Chris, Well thanks for the nice words.... Re guide controller - I don't know the Celestron Advanced Mount, I have an Synta HEQ5Pro which might be similar. ...
I've been very happy with the features and useability of wxAStroCapture for planetary imaging with an SPC900NC. However, often after quitting following an...
... You might care to 'Google' using "Microsoft Windows XP BAD_POOL_CALLER". There's a lot of stuff there, so I guess that the problem is not primarily due to...
Hi Ken Thanks for your help. I've attached a screen shot of the error message, which I'd never seen before installing wxAstroCapture. I'll take its advice and...
Peter, I'm sorry, but I can't offer any more help. I'm not an expert wrt Microsoft systems. For most purposes, I gave up on Microsoft some years ago. I now use...
Hi all, This is my first email to this list. My name is Rui Santos, and when trying to find a software suitable to use my ATIK ATK-16 on Linux, I found this...
... Rui, Some time ago, I had discussions with Carsten Arnholm about the possibility of releasing the source code for wxAstroCapture. Carsten was clear that...
Hi Peter, I use the SPC900 on WinXP Pro for testing so I treat the system not always well but I never saw a blue screen. From Google it can be almost anything...
Hi Martin Thanks for your help. I have reinstalled the camera drivers and will see how it goes next time. Fortunately the computer seems to recover from the...
I reinstalled the webcam driver and the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks for evryone's help. Peter Gross ... wxAStroCapture ... message ... reboot....
Can someone kindly point me at a source of information which clarifies the settings on the LE Control Port screen. I am familiar with various flavors of SC...
Hi Edward, I try to explain.... The masked bits (or lines for serial) are handled by the prog. This means that it will leave alone the unmasked ones which...
Thank you very much Martin! I will summarize for my particular configuration to see if I have it right and and ask two more questions. For my choice of mod...
Martin, oh my, the table "formatting" was really messed up. My summary table was trying to show the default settings with only Inverted Logic and Use Amp...
Hi, Is it somehow possible to save the FITS files unzipped? I'd like to have Deep Sky Stacker Live automatically register and stack them. Thanks in advance, ...
... Hi Scott, Well, you need to use a tool like WinZip (Windows) or Ark (Linux) to do it. You cannot currently save files unzipped. It is an idea though, so I...
Thank you Carsten! In the mean time, I'll probably spin up a .NET folder monitor application that performs this function. When I do, I'll share it with the...
Hello, is there any news on the atik 16IC support? How can i eventually help on add support for 16IC ccd? I can give a shell to a developer with a machine with...
... Please do Scott, Martin and I are slowly collecting the threads after summer holidays etc., so hopefully we should be picking up on some of these issues...
Hi Franco, The 16IC support slowed pretty much down as I don't have access to a cam. The standard Linux serial driver for the FT chips seems to apply the...
... Yes, i found something about this in the mailing list archive. ... Good, i'm really interested cause i have 2 atik 16ic and i don't have any windows...