What Capture software do people use?

[jkmorse]

Forum folks,

Great responses.  You have me intrigued by Sequence Generator Pro.  Need to look into that and APT. 

Reason I ask is that I continue to have issues with MaximDL.  I have to jump through several hoops just to get MaximDL and PixInsight to work together and I am tired of the fight so looking for new capture software.  Was going to try the SkyX Camera Add-on but wanted to canvas the group. 

Thanks for the great help and suggestions.

Best,

Jim

[RickS]

Reason I ask is that I continue to have issues with MaximDL.  I have to jump through several hoops just to get MaximDL and PixInsight to work together and I am tired of the fight so looking for new capture software.

What sort of issues, Jim?  I've never had problems bringing uncalibrated subs from Maxim into PI with a variety of different cameras.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Geoff]

Reason I ask is that I continue to have issues with MaximDL.  I have to jump through several hoops just to get MaximDL and PixInsight to work together and I am tired of the fight so looking for new capture software.

What sort of issues, Jim?  I've never had problems bringing uncalibrated subs from Maxim into PI with a variety of different cameras.

Cheers,
Rick.

Me neither.

[Physicist13]

For DSLR, a remote timer, simples!
Patrick

[Geoff]

For DSLR, a remote timer, simples!
Patrick

Yes, I did this when I used to use DSLR. Kept it nice and simple.
Geoff

[Phil Leigh]

If you have a Canon DSLR then BackyardEOS is the gold standard. A version for Nikon cameras is expected later in the year...

[erikgu]

Hi,

I use APT for both Canon and StarlightXpress CCD, controls camera and filterwheel. Nebulosity for SBIG. APT will come with support for SBIG in next release, released within few weeks. Has a lot of great support functions.

Erik G

[NGC7789]

If you have a Canon DSLR then BackyardEOS is the gold standard. A version for Nikon cameras is expected later in the year...

Unless you have a Mac.

[jkmorse]

Rick,

Maybe its the combination of my Apogee F16M and MaximDL, but sometimes I can't get them to play nice together at all.  Latest issue is that for some reason when I bring an image into PI the cores of the stars are black when actually they are just saturated.  At first it happened with CCDStack too, but then they did a patch and it fixed the problem there, but still other issues.  So my current routine, which is a real pain, is to capture everything in MaximDL, then save in CCDStack to clear the artifacts, then save in Nebulosity to get them in a format PI will read properly. 

Seems I am alone in these travails, since I have been having them ever since I got the F16M but its time to look for a different solution even if its just a glitch somewhere in my system.

Best,

Jim

[pfile]

If you have a Canon DSLR then BackyardEOS is the gold standard. A version for Nikon cameras is expected later in the year...

Unless you have a Mac.

yeah, in this case as far as i know there's just nebulosity and equinox image. not sure if EI can control a DSLR; it's mainly focused on SBIG cameras.

at any rate i have to have a virtual windows 7 machine for ascom anyway, so running BYE in there is not that big of a deal. seems 100% compatible with VMWare at least.

rob

[Harry page]

Hi

You can try SGP there is a 45 day free trial , does lots of other things as well , autofocus auto centre scope control  etc etc for only 99 usd

Regards

Harry

[NGC7789]

If you have a Canon DSLR then BackyardEOS is the gold standard. A version for Nikon cameras is expected later in the year...

Unless you have a Mac.

i have to have a virtual windows 7 machine

rob

My imaging rig is an old G4 Powerbook so Nebulosity is the only way for me. It still works. I'm sure backyardEOS is much better but I have no reason to upgrade at this point.

[starhopper]

Hello Forum,

I use
SBIG CCD (with selfguiding) => CCDSoft
Moravian G2-8300 => Nebulosity2/PHD
EOS6D => homemade Timer

Thomas

[GJL]

Hello!

Moravian G2-8300, Nebulosity, PHD

Gerhard

[sctall]

Been having a lot of fun using APT
Highly recommend it.

Scott T.