Well, an update is in order....
Theo has put me straight with the drivers....it is all sorted.
See my signature for an explanation!
Once I had a true , fresh starting point AND STUCK WITH IT
AND FOLLOWED IT THROUGH RATHER THAN GOING OFF ON
TANGENTS, the drivers worked fine
Familiarising myself tonight with settings like gain and offset.
A little hard with the near full moon, and rather different to the
DSI II gain/offset settings but I have several deep sky fields now
in the bag. Lovely noise floor on this camera. It is certainly everything
I have read about in the several years I have pined for one.
Good times ahead.
Now if the moon would just go away and the gully breezes settled
down from hurricane force....I might do ok
Thanks Theo for going above and beyond once again!
Steve
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Originally Posted by Gama
Ascom works fine, you just need to make sure the drivers you get are the right ones.
Over the years, there has been many drivers made for the QHY-8, including Linux.
If you want Ascom, make sure you have the latest version, and download the X64 drivers from QHY. Then download the Ascom driver matched to this driver as posted on Astrosoft and QHY website.
The issue many have is that they either dont get rid of drivers left on the system, or download one to try and then try another and another..
I have sent you a PM with the links for the correct Ascom and system drivers. These only work together, so dont mix and match with older versions, you need to make sure the old ones are removed.
Also EZcap 1.8 is also linked as well, see how you go..
Always remember to do a restore point, so you can always go back to the start.
Theo.
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