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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
That's great Joel, good story and outcome 
How do you control the separate cameras?
Do you dither guide and if so how is this accomplished with such a dual system?
Mike |
I use two instances of SequenceGeneratorPro to control the cameras. One instance controls basically everything (autofocus, tracking, plate solving etc) except for the second camera (QHY163). The second instance only controls the QHY163M and autofocus for that camera.
Unfortunately SGP does not yet support multiple cameras and so there isn't dithering support for this. I know the SGP developers are working on it and in fact much of the code has been written. When that is done there will be dithering coordination between cameras. Basically SGP will complete one camera image and poll the other to see if it is in the middle of an exposure. If it is it will wait for the exposure to complete, dither, then restart both cameras. At least that's the theory.
Not dithering is the only thing that this system can't do. And it can be a big issue since the QHY163M in particular will benefit from dithering.