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Old 22-02-2017, 05:20 PM
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Pat, can you try uninstalling the old driver first from the Windows control panel. Then install the new driver.

Also in APT hold shift while clicking to connect to the camera. This will bring the camera selection dialogue. Somehow there may be more than one version of the driver installed.

Thank you for confirming the Bayer matrix arrangement. The camera driver is reporting it incorrectly but I think APT does not use this information. That's why nobody else noticed it.
Will fix in the next release of the driver.
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Old 22-02-2017, 09:09 PM
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Another thought, the drivers are usually installed in folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\ASCOM\Camera
(Program Files x86 for the 64-bit systems).
There should be a subfolder Cam86. You can delete this folder and then reinstall the drivers.

And if all fails copy three dll files from the Google Drive/source code/luka/cam86_v0.4L/cam86/bin/Release/ to the folder Cam86 in the above folder with ASCOM drivers. That will overwrite the original files.
Probably restart the computer after this just to make sure the files are registered properly.
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Old 22-02-2017, 09:58 PM
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Nothing works, I do not have a file in ascom I made one with the DLL but it does not work.
I also supressed in the register!
I have windows starter

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Old 22-02-2017, 10:00 PM
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the matrix is GRGB
Hi Pat, I could not see GRGB in APT, only GRBG (or GBRG). Did you mean GRBG?


Also ignore my comment about the driver having incorrect Bayer sensor type. I tried fixing it and realised that ASCOM uses RGGB indicating a sensor with a Bayer matrix. It says nothing about the actual arrangement of the matrix.
(The other options are monochrome, colour, CMYG, CMYG2 and LRGB)
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Old 22-02-2017, 10:03 PM
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Almost missed your post as you posted a minute before my post about the Bayer matrix.

Can you:
1. Uninstall the driver
2. Delete the C:\Program Files\Common Files\ASCOM\Camera\Cam86 folder from Program Files and see if you can connect to the camera.
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Old 22-02-2017, 10:23 PM
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Almost missed your post as you posted a minute before my post about the Bayer matrix.

Can you:
1. Uninstall the driver
2. Delete the C:\Program Files\Common Files\ASCOM\Camera\Cam86 folder from Program Files and see if you can connect to the camera.

I look tonight for the pilot ,.
For the matrix, there is the choice in APT GRGB.

We do not work with the complete matrix that's why I think there is a difference with the datasheet
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Old 22-02-2017, 11:45 PM
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Pat, my APT does not have GRGB, see the attached image. By trial and error I found out that GRBG works, is this what you meant?

Also it is worth noting that GRBG works in DSS. Do not use Nikon D70 profile, Pat is correct to say that we are not using the whole sensor and that the datasheet does not apply any more.

Which stacking software do people use?
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Old 23-02-2017, 12:26 AM
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Yes, that's right, a thousand excuses for my error.
For stack, I use IRIS, I did not have good result with DSS ( it delete 1 color)
what is you result with DSS ? Not problem ?
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Old 23-02-2017, 01:08 AM
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Hi luka,

hmm, I cannot reproduce the issue indoor... when I was observing this kind of "ghost images", my camera was powered using a battery and the input voltage could have gone below 12 V. Maybe the signla for clearing the CCD wasn't properly generated? I will try and power the camera with my battery this weekend and let you know. I will also try and find some images where the star trails from the slew were evident, but I am not sure that I have kept them.
I can confirm that the right pattern in APT is GRBG.

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Old 23-02-2017, 02:07 AM
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Luka, that was the problem, we had to delete the file Cam86 in common files .

Thank you
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Old 23-02-2017, 02:19 AM
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Patrice, that is great news. By the way, did you ever see any effects of charge accumulation, like Nico has been mentioning?

Also I completely got put on the wrong track with the RGGB that was mentioned in the software source code and only last night I figured out that it did not mean that the matrix was RGGB
So, while I had few nights of data (taken with uncooled cam86) I never managed to process anything properly because of the wrong Bayer matrix information. I just stacked data from Carina nebula with DSS and the resulting image is here. I did not spend much time on it but don't think I am missing any colours. I used the following options:
In RAW/FITS DDP Settings and then in FITS Files I ticked the Monochrome box on the top and then selected the camera as Generic GRBG. The transformation was left as bilinear.

Again, selecting D70 does not work.
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Old 23-02-2017, 04:29 AM
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Strange, I would stay with your DSS settings!

With the original driver, never artifact. I would test with your pilot.

Nico, please post 1 picture to see the problem.
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Old 23-02-2017, 04:41 AM
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Regarding the Bayer matrix, we have a shift of 1 pixel in the Y-direction. The standard D70 sensor is
BG
GR
while we have
GR
BG
That is 1 pixel shift down (or up).
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Old 23-02-2017, 11:10 AM
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Nico, if you still cannot reproduce the problem can you try going back to the original firmware/software and see if it appears there.
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Old 24-02-2017, 07:14 PM
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For the local crowd, here is the link to the French forum about Cam86 and here is the google translation of it. Several people there (including our Pat and Gilles) have built Cam86s and are discussing improvements to it.
Lots of useful info there. Great work
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Old 24-02-2017, 08:20 PM
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For the local crowd, here is the link to the French forum about Cam86 and here is the google translation of it. Several people there (including our Pat and Gilles) have built Cam86s and are discussing improvements to it.
Lots of useful info there. Great work
Yes, and we have just openned a new site to share all this information (searching on thses forums is not easy). Pat and I wrote several articles on our work.
It's in french, but any contribution is wellcomed :
https://www.diycam.fr/index.php/fr/
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Old 24-02-2017, 10:32 PM
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I was already reading it in Google Translate Gilles. When I read your section about setting offset/gain I realised that I was doing it incorrectly. Thank you.

How much do gain/offset vary with the ambient temperature? Would, say, 5 degrees C make much difference?
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Old 24-02-2017, 11:00 PM
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(...)How much do gain/offset vary with the ambient temperature? Would, say, 5 degrees C make much difference?
I don't know, I let Patrice answer you.
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I was already reading it in Google Translate Gilles. When I read your section about setting offset/gain I realised that I was doing it incorrectly. Thank you.

How much do gain/offset vary with the ambient temperature? Would, say, 5 degrees C make much difference?
Luka, thanks for advertising!

I would detail a little more the article for the settings OFFSET and GAIN because it lacks explanations.
I have not yet made any real measurement of the increase of the Offset with the temperature but it is necessary to remember that all the commercial cameras are not adjustable and the manufacturers have factory values between 200 and 1500.
500 it's good !

I would take steps to put on the site!

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I was already reading it in Google Translate(...)
Open source world is marvelous :
i've added gtranslate module to our site, hope it'll help
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