Paramount PEC and the Southern Hemisphere - finally solved?

[PRejto (Peter)]

Thanks Dennis and josh,

It is nice to finally know what the problem is!
I do wonder if Software Bisque has the ability to repair this given the departure of Richard Wright. I'm pretty sure he had a big role in developing this software. At the moment I'm not sure thay have anyone workinhg on software, hence Daily Builds are more like quartely or yearly....

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[Dennis]

Any news yet Peter?

I see that on the SB Forums no one has replied to your post with any details of if a fix will ever be attempted, or if so, when it might be released for us long-suffering Southern Hemisphere users??

Dennis

[DavidS (David)]

I’ve been following a few threads - the subject gets brought up enough it must be bugging them (sorry - couldn’t resist) - there was some indication a few days back that they are working on a fix although it didn’t sound like next week.

I must say it doesn’t sound like a hard thing to fix that a decent dev couldn’t do in a few days. They already know which hemisphere it is in.

I think their bigger issue is the tracking of the star and the separating it from the noise and hot pixels. They seem to get a constant stream for help around that. That is a more difficult problem than just working out which file to load.

[PRejto (Peter)]

I have to say that being totally ignored on the SB forum after my last post has beeen a bit demoralising. I have given them what they need to fix it and it really couldn't be that hard.

I feel confident that if you are using a mirrored camera the results will work. If not, as most are, the result will fail unless the curve is inverted.

Cheers,

Peter

[Dennis]

So sorry to hear that your efforts are being ignored Peter, that is a very sad state of affairs indeed for such high end mounts.

From what historical information I can gather, it looks like this Southern Hemisphere PEC software bug has been around for some 10-12 years, at least.

It has been consistently reported by what I believe to be several competent Southern Hemisphere Paramount users, so it does not appear to be the result of operator error.

I believe a significant management/technical change needs to happen at SB before this bug will be fixed, as the current management/technical team have demonstrated that they have no appetite or resources to fix this embarrassing problem.

In the meantime, I will continue to use PEMPro as a reliable work around.

Dennis.

Originally Posted by PRejto

I have to say that being totally ignored on the SB forum after my last post has beeen a bit demoralising. I have given them what they need to fix it and it really couldn't be that hard.

I feel confident that if you are using a mirrored camera the results will work. If not, as most are, the result will fail unless the curve is inverted.

Cheers,

Peter

[PRejto (Peter)]

Thanks Dennis. I think the departure of Richard Wright was the end of SB being able to be innovative with TheSkyX. Daily build have basically stopped. It's a situation where people will just not resubscribe because there is so little that is "new." Just my 2 cents.

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[bxobservatory (Lars)]

Just came across this thread, incredibly useful, I am lucky, I already have Pempro installed.

SB deserve a serious listening to.

Thank you

[atalas]

Originally Posted by PRejto

I have to say that being totally ignored on the SB forum after my last post has beeen a bit demoralising. I have given them what they need to fix it and it really couldn't be that hard.

I feel confident that if you are using a mirrored camera the results will work. If not, as most are, the result will fail unless the curve is inverted.

Cheers,

Peter

Hey Pete....interesting you say that because when I had success with pec I was using an onag which gave me a mirror image.

[PRejto (Peter)]

Louis, that's interesting ana a nice confirmation!

I was finally contacted by SB privately and I sent additional information from my tests. They may, or may not, log into my observatory to run some tests. Hopefully they doit to test a revision. It would be nice to put this issue to bed!

Peter

[Dennis]

I hope something comes of this Peter, thank you for supporting SB with your test results.

Dennis.

[Dennis]

I’ve just seen a post on CN which writes that the Software Bisque website has been down since around 13th Feb.

Have you had any news on the bug fix yet, Peter?

Dennis