[g__day (Matthew)]

Agree with White Rabbit!

I got the BIAS shots working thank you - once I scrolled out of BULB mode - all was excellent.

I also got the Eclipse framing working very well. Called up a shot of M42 from last night ( a 2 minute shot to use as a reference frame) and then I just kept doing 4 second shots - adjust, loop until the stars were aligned to yesterday nights reference. That is a feature I would love have further automated.

The other thing I was expecting was a way to scroll through several nights images easily. When I select a historic image - say from 30 minute ago - it draws it large in its own window and I can't step to next. I'd love to be able to either go forward or backwar in the pop up window (rather than close, select next and have another pop up window to deail with). I used to use Canon's ZoomBrowser a lot. You had a view with a string of thumbnail images down the bottom - and whatever you click on its image would appear in the main view window.

The only thing I can make appear in the main view window (without openning up a seperate window) is the current image.

Lastly on M42 the histogram (see image below) shows roughly equal amounts of Red, Green and Blue light gathered - but the Red is way to the left - dim zone, probably due to the standard Canon Infrared cut off filter. I'd guess that the Red data is about say 10% behind green which is 1% less intense as the Blue data. The camera is in Automatic white balance mode - does this mean I should set a custom white balance mode or is it correct in what it is showing? (or is it saying go to a G2V star and calibrate!)

Thank you, Matt

PS

I get an annoying Windows Error message that BackYardEOS has a problem and has to be shut down once or twice a night - even though it all appears to be working well! If I Ignore the frustratingly placed pop up window I can do everything normally. It generally occurs if something big and demanding is running in the background hogging the CPU - e.g. DeepSpaceStacker during an imaging run. If I click Ok or cancel it simply shuts down your program!