[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hi all,

Just a quick one. I am trying to get an image using a LX Modified 900NC webcam through a finderscope. All I seem to get is a picture which is very contrasty, but has squares all over it. Black background with pixelated white/grey boxes. Which seem to correspond to where a star or hot pixel is. Occasionally a good picture would pop up, but then it would quickly disappear and return to these boxes... I tried adjusting the exposure times and also the contrast bar, with not much help. I also adjusted some settings in the setup window, but this had little effect also...

If anyone is using a similar setup 8x50 finderscope (Skywatcher) and Philips 900NC with Serial LXmod could you please be able to point me in the right direction on what settings to use...

BTW the camera works fine in SharpCap with the LX mode turned on, it's only when I use PHD the picture is all yuk...