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Post by davy on Sept 26, 2016 23:37:46 GMT
We all know about the status sensor,and it's fitted to zwo cameras one I'm thinking of is the isi178mc ,the status sensor is very good low light and I wondered how this would be hooked up with astrotoaster,ok the sharpcap has stacking but has anyone tried it on the toaster.. thoughts😃
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Post by howie1 on Sept 27, 2016 0:07:25 GMT
davy, the NSN.com live broadcast guys often do exactly that. Check every now and then to see who is on and what they are using. I often see Mark Bahu and Donboy shooting with ZWO's and stacking etc in AstroToaster. Matter of fact everyone who has done it has run comparison sessions stacking the object first in SharpCap and then immediately after in AT and all without fail prefer the AT images! Especially as SharpCap didnt have an ability to change the saturation/color stuff. At least the versions they have all been using didnt. Or if you changed the RGB balance SC would reset and you'd loose all the stuff stacked thus far and start again with image #1 all over. AT doesnt care ... it allows colour etc changes on the fly. The final stack in AT had better sharpness, better color and easier adjustments than SC. At least with whatever versions they have been using.
All you have to do is think like how BYEOS and AT work together. Then SC and AT work toegther the exact same way. With BYEOS its an "acquisition" program and you tell it to lodge the files in a folder which is where you have set AT to Monitor. It's the exact same process with the ZWO's or Atiks or any camera ... use its "acquisition" software (SharpCap or FireCapture) to capture a series of long exposure frames and where to save them. Then tell AT where to Monitor ... ie where to find those frames (and also - of course - what type they are be it tif or fits or png etc).
The only problem they have had is Sharpcap tends to stick every new series into a new subfolder. And in the old versions of AT you had to therefore change the folder to monitor and I think there might have been a bug cos they often had to restart to get AT to 'see' the new monitor folder. I think? There was some issue like that. Anyway the new version of AT has a "Change monitor folder" option now - I think to cater for that issue and correctly change the monitor folder on the fly.
cheers
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Post by ChrisV on Sept 27, 2016 2:02:36 GMT
+1 for what Howie said. Sharpcap now also can save each sub while stacking. So if you sort out the folder thing can compare to AT on the fly
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 27, 2016 12:22:16 GMT
We all know about the status sensor, . . . Do we? I've never heard of it
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Post by davy on Sept 27, 2016 12:32:30 GMT
Starvis... predictive text doing its usual
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Post by Dragon Man on Sept 27, 2016 17:03:03 GMT
ahhhh, ok. Yep, Starvis I have heard of. Thought I was left behind the times for a while there
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Post by davy on Sept 27, 2016 21:27:58 GMT
Dilemma sorted out now,lol, the company was going to use for astronomy modded camera stopped doing it,and another supplier was dearer,, so I went back and looked at the starvus sensor and it was a pretty good price and was swaying towards the 178 ,,but I got my hands on the canon 450d astronomy modded and delivery for £155,,,
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