Capella HELP PLEASE!!!

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Comment by Philip A Cruden on January 1, 2015 at 9:21am

Thanks so much for your help Russ. Really great man.

Comment by Philip A Cruden on January 1, 2015 at 9:19am

Here is Capella

Comment by Philip A Cruden on January 1, 2015 at 9:19am

Hi Russ, I finally got some clear skies to get out and do some testing. All your advise was bang on and I got everything working. I am really looking forward to some clear skies now to get out and do some imaging. Here is an image of Betelgeuse and Capella ISO-800 90sec Exp on each

Comment by Philip A Cruden on December 1, 2014 at 9:04am

Thanks Russ, all I need now is some clear skies. I will try 2.5 - 3 on the calibration. I am really hoping the frame focus live view is the issue. Thanks again for your help. I will let you know how it goes, Phil

Comment by Russ Ruggles on December 1, 2014 at 8:19am

OK your exposure settings sound fine. As long as they are not too short. I've found that 2.5 - 3 work the best to avoid chasing seeing.

Ya I wonder if the frame and focus is your crash problem. I guess you'll know tonight. Big storm coming so you better test it soon or wait for a week

Comment by Philip A Cruden on December 1, 2014 at 7:42am

That is a good question. I am not 100% what mode I leave BYE in but I have a funny feeling I leave it in Frame and Focus mode which means it is live and active during PHD calibration.......That could be the problem as you have pointed out. I will be sure to set it on imaging mode next time so it is not active. I have been setting PHD exposure to 1 or 2 sec.

Comment by Russ Ruggles on December 1, 2014 at 7:31am

Let me ask you this
After you frame and focus in what "mode" do you leave BYE while you're calibrating?
I usually let it sit on "Imaging" so there's no signal coming from the DSLR while the calibration is going on.
Also - what exposure rate do you have your guide camera set to while you're calibrating? .5 sec, 1 sec, 1.5, 2 ??

Comment by Philip A Cruden on December 1, 2014 at 7:09am

Hi Russ, Yes I am using the Shoestring device. And yes it is all very frustrating:) This is what happens; I open up BYE, center target ,focus, take a shot to check focus, all is good working fine. Open PHD, set the parameters and it starts doing its calibration and about 45-60 sec in everything stops working including my mouse. In other words full crash. If I use BYE just by itself.........no problems. The crashing always happens during PHD's calibrations. I am going to download PHD2 and check the other things you mentioned. Thanks for the help Russ. On a good note I have new knobs coming from Anthony "ADM". I noticed the saddle knobs have some hairline cracking in them............dam plastic in AZ

Comment by Russ Ruggles on December 1, 2014 at 4:34am

Phil,
Are you guiding through a Shoestring device or direct with ACSOM? The Shoestring device doesn't need ASCOM.
I'm running basically the same setup as you. BYE and PHD on a laptop. Lately for me BYE has been crashing by itself for some reason. I think I got that worked out but it's frustrating so I feel your pain. Since neither program requires much ram and your laptop is crashing I'd look at a video card driver updates or you're having USB or ASCOM conflicts. A few other thoughts - Are you running anything else in the background? Disable Win updates? Disable Antivirius programs? Could be something really silly - or serious.

Russ

Comment by Philip A Cruden on November 30, 2014 at 3:30pm

Thanks Bob. Thanks for the reminder for PHD2..........Russ said the same thing and I forgot all about it. Also a good point about ASCOM. I have not checked if it is up to date in a while. Thanks again Bob:)

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