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Hi, I printed the 3D parts already during February - March. (Took around 65 hours of 3D printing), waiting for the Shelyak Parts. Because of the unforseen success (~150 orders for the parts) there was some delay. Shelyak also decided to deliver a longer slit (4.5mm :D ) and an extra camera lens (so ...

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1) my FPS was almost double when I switched to FC compared to Sharpcap 3.2. I was using a ASI120mm-S camera. Then you were not using the same settings in both programs. Probably high-speed setting There can be speed differences but not in that way. Always was able to get max fps announced for that ...

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Hi,

Think there is some filters for Photoshop with FFT.

Anyway it works with Gimp.

See this document I attached to an old solarchat post about Newton Rings:

download/file.php?id=31597

Regards,

Paul

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Hi,

it's in the window that shows the image.
There is a green box Scaling (FITS/SER)
There is an "auto" tick box.

Rgrds,

Paul

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suppose you mean this?

Never trust the cloud to keep data

Paul

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Yes Rainer. 2, 3 and 4x times binning. ZWO also mentions hardware binning for some modes possible, but no idea how that would work on CMOS. Rgrds, Paul edit: of course the "normal" binning happens somewhere in software. It's not like real pixel binning in CCD's. How the hardware binning cl...

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Stu, probably you tried, but another possible cause can be found this way: open explorer right click on 'this Computer" properties advanced system settings visual effects check if Microsoft has decided that your computer can handle "show thumbnails instead of icons" P. If this does no...

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Stu,

have you checked via File Explorer -> Options-> Change Folder and Search Options -> View

Always show icons, never thumbnails should be unticked

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James, My main desktop machine is a Linux Ubuntu 20.01 (with Mate Deskop). It used to run W10, but I moved that to a VM on the Linux machine. (Since I paid for a license, I still use it sometimes, mostly for testing software that needs to be platform independen. For Solar Work I still have a separat...

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For Solar I always(with some exceptions) use my ASI178 in 16bit mode and 14bit ADC. On that camera (if your USB is good) there is no speed difference between 16 and 8 bit. (There is if you change to high-speed with 10bit ADC, but you loose dynamic range)

Paul

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Siril is mainly for deep-sky stacking and processing and does a very good job for that. (Much better than DeepSkyStacker) The interface not always very intiutive, but the result are very good. The version on Ubuntu repos is "old". For the latest and much better one could add this ppa: http...

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According to ZWO, the 12bit full frame rate is 128fps and 164 in 10bit. In Firecapture, I only have a checkbox for 16bit on/off To get the highest speed and use the 10bit ADC you have to set the tick mark in 'High-Speed'. Without the tickmark, the ZWO cams operate in the highest bit-depth of the AD...

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Firecapture needs to be 'opened as administrator' then any settings you change in FC will be saved for the next time you open it. Do you have a little button to click next to the gamma setting? Alexandra Alexancra, that only happens because you have installed FireCapture in the Programs (Programs X...

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and Genika has autofocus (works very well)
Attacheh a file on how to focus using the histogram (would quote the author, but no way I can find it back)

Paul

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Looked at the video on their page on how to use it. Particulary enjoyed the part where the guy is saying to "trash this Quark, our customers will never get such a bad one" . Maybe he should come and look at mine, which now serves as excellent paper weight.

Paul

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Thanks Mark & Eric.

P.

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Thanks everyone for the comments and the SPOD.

Oh Paul! always do a systems check like an aircraft before proceeding

Alexandra: if you look at "Aircrash Investigation" you see pilots, from time to time, seem to forget or don't follow these either.

Paul

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Very good but just wanted to let you know we are in the month of November

yeah, little confused lately, too much going on.
Even almost fried the camera this morning, forgot to put on the AstroSolar. Luckally the Sun was still hiding behind a building. That's why I never do visual.

Paul

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Very good but just wanted to let you know we are in the month of November

yeah, little confused lately, too much going on.
Even almost fried the camera this morning, forgot to put on the AstroSolar. Luckally the Sun was still hiding behind a building. That's why I never do visual.

Paul

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Too much work testing all kind of things but once in a while some solar imaging. Low Sun, buildings and trees so very small capture window. Full disk with the 80 mm f/6, (view image to see full resolution) 2020-11-28-0955.jpg detail with the 120 mm f/8.3 (view image to see full resolution) 2020-11-2...

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Too much work testing all kind of things but once in a while some solar imaging. Low Sun, buildings and trees so very small capture window. Full disk with the 80 mm f/6, (view image to see full resolution) 2020-11-28-0955.jpg detail with the 120 mm f/8.3 (view image to see full resolution) 2020-11-2...

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Hello David, Maybe you could try to match the SSM log file (either from Airylab or my software) to the frames from FireCapture. Best would be in that case to capture in SER format, where every frame will have a good timestamp. Difficulty will be to match it with the "sorted" frames in AS!3...

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Hi,

looks like these come from www.solarastronomy.org

Rgrds,

Paul

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Alexandra, what I understand from this: images which are on a "non-secure" website (http) wil not be shown when linked in a page. The website containing the image must be https (an therefore have a certificate to prove it is the correct one) Maybe a bit exagerated in this case, but I can s...

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According to the info from Calsky in your previous post, the ISS is 30" in diameter. (size can vary a lot, but 30" is not that small) Did the calculation right for an ASI174 but my figures seemed to large .... Anyway 30" is in between the size of Mars and Jupiter, so should be clearly...

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Hello Franco,

I use SER player: https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/ser-player

Works very well, and allows to extracr individual images and other processing.

You can use also PIPP to do some extractions, qualiity sort and lots more.

Regards,

Paul

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Have you tried Genika? You can try without the camera registered in the licence file, it will work but you won't be able to use the record function. If that shows the same problems, then there is something wrong with the ASI Camera driver. (That should install by itseld in latest W10, but you can al...

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Hi, well the speeds have nothing to do with AVI orr SER. The camera just deliver a "raw" image to the sofware, and the software decides how to convert it/write to file ... Usually the speeds drops to half the speed when you change to 16 bit (and AVI can't do 16bit, SER can) Theoretical spe...

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Alexandra, if you recorded in SER format, the player will report the framerate the file was recorded. If I look at the size & speed (in '/min) for that transit, I would say everything above 40fps the ISS image will be overlapping from one frame to the next. (80fps probably half the ISS size) Paul

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That's a good one Alexandra.
Luck is usually the major factor for these events. (Needs to be one, low passagge, weather needs to be good ...)
Do yo have some info on the shutter speed you used. Since it is CAK probably you couldn't use the shortest exposure, but still remarkable sharp.

Rgrds,

Paul

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wow nice what camera did you use

I use the ASI178MM. The small pixels are a good match with the f8.3 scope.

Paul

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wow nice what camera did you use

I use the ASI178MM. The small pixels are a good match with the f8.3 scope.

Paul

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You asked, here the detail

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You asked, here the detail

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Hi,

Passage of ISS in front of the Sun. ISS size was 57" (but transit less than 1 second) so a good oportunity. (despite heat-wave temperatures)

120mm f8.3 with ND3.8
For maximum details, pls view at full resolution.

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Hi,

Passage of ISS in front of the Sun. ISS size was 57" (but transit less than 1 second) so a good oportunity. (despite heat-wave temperatures)

120mm f8.3 with ND3.8
For maximum details, pls view at full resolution.

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You can try to change the user name via control panel. But I don't know if that will also change the folder names.
On the start icon, just type control panel, there you can change account names.

Paul

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Ok. Went thru all the microsoft shit to create a local account (used to be simple in the earlier days) and named it "Paul & Els" Downloaded firecapture, unzipped it. Started it and gues: it does NOT work! so that's the reason. Can you signal this to Torsten, maybe he can find a solutio...

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Hi, 44 items is correct. You should look in T his PC > OS:(C) > Users > Alexandra & Darren Not in appdata or further down. But .... I don't like the & sign in the folder name (You created a username Alexandra & Darren?) These special signs (and also the spaces, but I gues the & sign)...

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Hi, the log file should be found in that firecapture folder it creates. But I wonder if something makes it impossible to create a new folder there. If you go to that folder with explorer (This PC -> Arrow Up -> and double click on the foler with User Icon and User Name) - Do you see a folder firecap...

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Hmmm, frustrating. Do you have a log file in the firecapture folder. (proably Torsten asked that already). I have been working with the beta version all day (and night) with camera, telescope, focuser and autoguiding. Only one problem when switching ROI when autoguiding is running, then it sometimes...

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Well found one reason how this could happen .... If you already have a firecapture folder in your home folders then the first startup hangs. It uses now a firecapture folder in your home folders for all settings. (if the folder exists, it tries to use it, but does not contain valid data. If it does ...

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Hi Alexandra, However some of the cameras are not operating at full frame rates like on the old computer. The worst offender is the ZWO ASI174 where I am only getting 40 fps rather than 65 fps. The FLIR Blackfly colour is getting 40fps instead of 45fps. Did you check USBTraffic value? It probably de...

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Also check the "display" frame rate. (button left above the display screen)
That regulates your view-framerate. Try setting it to MAX.

Paul

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Thansk everyone.
Well most of it is luck. It needs to be visble from your location, and the weather needs to cooperate ...

Regards,

Paul

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Hello,

well everything was sunlit this moring, not only Earth

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Kind regards,

Paul

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You can use the autorunner function.

Select the # images, delay and time limit per video.

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Hi, suppose you are using the plugin from Joachim Stehle. Have been using that for a while but have never used the delay. Good seeing is scarse so I always tried to keep as much good frames as possible. I created my own monitor and plugin which is also free to use (https://github.com/paul-db/SolarMo...

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Hmmm, gonna need more details. - What OS (i suppose windonws? but never seen resize when I right click on an image, but some programs can add functions to the right click options, so you never know) - Format you saved the image in IMPPG (compressed tiff does not work with all programs) - Short expla...

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Wel you can if you have an avi recording of the sun.

In the firecapture install folder navigate to testImages folder
Create a folder called sun
copy the avi file in that folder named as sun.avi

That should do the trick

Paul

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