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Hi,
yes I was swearing black and blue with xp, lot more stable with win7.
I'd suggest using your guidecam in your main scope while drift aligning with phd first or you could use the trial version of alignmaster. atleast that's what I plan to do when these clouds clear.
ezcap although a bit archaic, is pretty easy and does the job if you want to see what it looks like. you can choose the focusing area by moving the box around in the preview, and then use live in the focusing secn. you'll have to set 400ms or so and click that auto else you won't see anything.
you could use high speed readout, but apparently that introduces a bit of noise.
you could use a 5 or 10 sec preview to get your target framing correct, and then do your 3 or 5 min image, and save each as bmp and fits.
Also, if you use DSS, you don't need to debayer each image. there is a setting in DSS where you specify QHY8 as the imaging camera and it chooses the correct debayer pattern. just import the fits files and convert them to lights. clicking each also brings up the preview.
once stacked, you can choose save as TIF and then play with the TIF. so no need to fiddle around with the FITS files either.
you mentioned you don't use a spacer and mpcc, but once you have the camera running say for 20mins or so, i'd suggest removing it out of the focuser keeping it powered just to see if there's condensation in the UV/IR nosepiece. if there's none, then you don't have to worry about it. else just use a dew strap around it.
let us know how it goes.
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