Posts Made By: chris carpenter

Greetings all,

Does anyone know where in the name of Chinese mysticism one might locate the user's manual for the QHY5L-II guide/planetary CMOS?

To call the qhyccd.com website a little muddled would be the kindest possible words I could use for it.

Thanks in advance,
Chris Carpenter
Spoutwood Farm Observatory
Glen Rock, PA
39d 46' 23"; -76d 51' 31"

Thanks for reading,

I was lucky enough to get a response from Roland Christen himself on my last post, so, as they say, we'll go to the well until its dry...

Getting some crash issues with EZPlanetary, and decided to give SharpCap a go. I feel like SharpCap is easier and more intuitive, however I cannot find a way to make the frame rates approach anything close to the 107 fps (@ 640x480) I can get using EZP.

I have tried reducing exposure, gamma, etc with no results. I believe I am using version 2.0 for SharpCap, on WIN7 machine, with the latest camera drivers.

Am I missing something simple here? Or am I right in assuming that the QHY folks are still working with SharpCap to develop a finalized driver?

Thanks again in advance,
Chris Carpenter
Spoutwood Farm Observatory
-76W, 39N
8" D&G refractor, AP 1200 Black Quartz Metric (yes, the original!)