QHY5 with Windows 7

[cybereye (Mario)]

Hi everyone!!

A quick couple of questions.

I'm still sorting out my autoguiding and am looking at the QHY5 to use attached to my guidescope. Does this camera work with Windows 7 and is it a good, cost-effective (read cheap) camera?

Cheers,
Mario

[renormalised (Carl)]

It should work with Win7 and yes, it's cost effective

[davewaldo]

I'm not sure about windows 7 but its a great guidecam for the price. I can always find a star with 1-2sec exposures. Very easy to use with PHD.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Didn't they release drivers for Win7??. Works OK for the others.

[cybereye (Mario)]

I've done a bit more research and they have released Windows 7 drivers - both 32 and 64 bit - on www.qhyccd.com.

Cheers,
Mario

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Originally Posted by cybereye

I've done a bit more research and they have released Windows 7 drivers - both 32 and 64 bit - on www.qhyccd.com.

Cheers,
Mario

Ahh thanks Mario.

I am looking at Win7 upgrade as I'm running it on other systems ATM and it's all what vista should have been.

[Hagar (Doug)]

It works well with windows7 but requires the 32/64 bit drivers from QHYCCD and the Ascom drivers from www.astrosoft.be and the latest version of Ascom platform.

[mill (Martin)]

It runs on winblows 7 for sure
Use the ascom drivers and the base drivers (32/64 bit ones).

[cybereye (Mario)]

Thanks everyone for the advice and help on this. The guidecam is the last piece to the rather large jigsaw that I've created for myself called "Guiding and Imaging". Once I get that sorted then I'll be able to get back to the imaging....

Cheers,
Mario