Live Stacking with SharpCap Pro (version 4)

[@gregkushner9214]

I loved the straightforward nature of your presentation. Much appreciated and very informative. Reminded me of the old TV show, Dragnet. Just the facts mam, just the facts. Thank you.

[@lawrencesaville3345]

Very clear and concise. I use EAA/Live Stack as my primary astronomy but good guides and how to are few and far between. Definitely one I'll be sharing to the rest of the astro club!

[@AntPDC]

Extremely helpful Jeff. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.

[@raueugen9047]

You explained well, I'm glad that I begin to understand little by little, eg how working (on) histograms.

[@kennethlim6449]

Jeff - This is very helpful video for beginners to learn. Specially, the presentation (11:00-14:00) is good for learning how to use all the Histogram sliders. Thanks. Ken

[@Gez79]

Thank you for the video. It was very useful for me. The Orion Nebula turned too green and I didn't know how to solve it because I'm a beginner. Now I understand how to improve the image.

[@michaelfrazier9537]

Last night, I used SharpCap with my QHY 5 III 462 C to capture Jupiter. However, I only used the 1 star aligment which I won't do again, LOL. Jupiter kept drifting. The other thing I did was in my excitement was I forgot to save the image. So, it was the first time trying SharpCap. I did get a clear view of Jupiter though, but rookie mistakes cost me the video file. Great video!

[@nightskyimaging]

Well done! Thanks for taking the time to make this!

[@primoroy]

OK, for rank first time beginners, is there a default setting for the histogram color adjustments?

[@billblanshan3021]

Good job Jeff!

[@roymixon]

Hello Jeff, Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. do have a video for capturing Dark and Flat frames ? I'm new at this, which is a huge learning curve for me. I'm using a Celestron Nexstar 130 SLT, 650MM, F/5. I purchased a ZWO-ASI120mc-s camera. Using SharpCap 4.0. Would appreciate if you could guide me to a link in reference using SharpCap taking dark and light frames. Thanks Jeff.

[@JeffLepp-qm9lb]

Sorry I don't have a video for taking darks and flats. I found these videos when searching KZbin. darks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpnZgml5o5p3jKc flats: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apTFiH56mNmUptU

[@brown9962]

Thank you. One question - What is the file extension of the flat and dark calibration files? PNG? FITS?

[@peterdguru]

OK a silly Question; at 9:14 where did he click in the app to open that dialog?

[@JeffLepp-qm9lb]

When reviewing my video I noticed that got covered up. At the end of the video we added a segment to explain how to select the calibration frames.

[@Gavin-oq5tt]

Good video. I have started to use, but a good job reinforcing how to use live stack. A question for you - if you want to capture raw frames whilst you use Live Stack (this is an option) to later stack in Deep Sky Stacker - is it a good idea to pre-process with dark/flats? I understand that SharpCap will include the dark/flat adjustments in each one of the raw files. Is this better or worse than letting DSS deal with the dark and flats? Many thanks.

[@JSCAstronomicalSociety]

You can capture raw frames will live stacking.

[@lsa168]

Not a bad presentation at all. Thanks!!

[@SKYST0RY]

What is the F ratio of your club's 18" Newtonian?

[@JeffLepp-qm9lb]

The native F ratio of the Newt is 4.5. We are now using a coma corrector that reduces to F3.3.

[@roymixon]

jeff, Question, how do you configure the folder monitor camera option? When I click on that option, it doesn't default to my folder directory. instead, i see a picture pops up dark sky with stars, pulling a file from somewhere other than a folder, my guess, however It will not default to folder directory, do i need to configure this option?

[@JeffLepp-qm9lb]

It opens the last folder that was selected. To select a different folder go to camera controls - source folder and click on the browse button. Yes the first image loaded will be black because it had not been stretched yes with the historgram.

[@benburden9323]

How is do you sharpin up the live stock what galaxy is that what number

[@JeffLepp-qm9lb]

The Galaxy is M33. On the livestack tabs there is an Enhancement tab that will allow for some sharpening but I have found it to be not too useful.

[@raueugen9047]

Why you not pointing the telescope to the sky, why not make then live stacking, and explain by short? As a beginner this is I am waiting for.

[@AmatureAstronomer]

Nice. Thanks.

[@peterfassler9856]

Sorry, this is much too complicated. Keep it simple and fun.