Hi all,
I recently nabbed a second hand old style QHY8 OSC.
I was using it on Nebulosity on my Windows 7 laptop. I managed to get a first picture but then noticed a) it is much slower than I remember my original QHY 8 being, and b) it freezes up after the first image and won't restart the imaging run.
I noticed I am running a 32bit version of Nebulosity on my laptop- would changing this help?
cheers
Graham
This sounds suspiciously like the issues I was having with my qhy9, although mine took longer to freeze. Were you able to regain access to the camera after rebooting the software ? Or computer ?
Hi
I didn't try as it got frustrating so I changed cameras to a DSLR but then it got cloudy!
Did you solve your issues?
I am thinking I might get my old vista laptop out and see if it behaves the same on that- I remember my first QHY 8 being much sleeker and faster -on that computer.
i am interested to see if you have the same symptoms. for me it is only an issue because i have my camera perm connected to the computer in an observatory and it is difficult for me to go down there and fix it (details about what works and doesn't are in the link). i have not resolved the issue and have talked both the QHY and SB (i was having the issue in ThesSkyX). people on the SB forums suggested this is an issue with hardware on the QHY (USB ports and drivers) and QHY raised a defect with SB for changes in thesky. for now i am imaging through EZcap, without using a third party software, until i can fund the purchase of an upgraded camera.
My old style QHY8 running on a Win7 laptop and EzCap freezes if I take short exposures between tens of milliseconds and one second, outside that range it has no problems.
The exposure I ran was for 300 seconds.
I will try with my old computer tonight - if it fails I might download EZYCAP and the drivers again and retry. I'm sure its a driver/software thing as this W7 computer has been funny with drivers in the past. Either that or its a Nebulosity 32 bit issue and I need to upgrade to a 64 bit ?
I went with the old laptop and it worked just how I remembered it, so I assumed it was driver based. I reloaded both the QHY8 and QHY 8 pro drivers and it seems to have fixed it.
Cheers
All
Graz
