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K3CCDtools is one of the easiest and best capture programs, Ken. It is one click away to change your settings, frame rate etc, and it does auto naming of your files with file sequence numbers. Press a button to start recording, and right-click the mouse to stop recording.
You also get a live "histogram" or white level meter, to show you how exposed the object is. Getting correct exposure (especially on moon and planets) is very important, and the white level meters gives you immediate feedback. If it's 255, it means you're overexposing as there's pure white on your image.
Version 1 is still available for download, and you just need to renew the key every few months.
It can do long exposure stuff I believe, but I can't give any advice on it as I haven't tried it.
I've used k3ccd since day 1 and love it. I use "IC Capture" now with the DMK, but it's no better than k3ccdtools.
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