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Originally Posted by topheart
Good on you Ray - I am looking forward to your promised real thing NGC253!
Cheers,
Tim
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thanks Tim. the real one is on the way - the only problem with these cameras is the time needed to process half a thousand subs when going deep!
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Originally Posted by Ken
Hi Ray that is impressive for such short imaging time. I placed a order with Bintel two days ago for one of these cameras, looking forward to trying it out.
Clear skies Ken.
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Am sure you will enjoy it Ken. If any use to you, the USB downloads are very fast, but somewhat less than bulletproof and the following may help you get going without too much pain:
use the latest available drivers and capture software (there were some early teething issues getting the various packages and camera firmware to talk ASCOM reliably),
use the supplied USB cable while getting it up and running,
in the ASCOM setup for the camera, use a gain of ~70, offset of ~20 and set the USB to 45 if your PC does not support USB3 or 75-80 if it does.
in the PC advanced power management, turn off the "USB selective suspend" - not really sure how much difference this makes, but my system seems to have been rock stable since I did this.