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Exposures with Shutter Closed

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 9:47 pm
by Davo
I am porting an astronomy capture app (http://starrydave.com/?page_id=367) from CHDK to digiCamControl and it is currently working very well. It controls a telescope mount and camera to take a series of images of different targets automatically. It also interfaces with PHD2 autoguider and I plan to add a plate solver for accurate scope pointing.

One thing I can do in CHDK is capture images with the camera shutter closed. These images are called darks and biases and are used in astro image stacking programs. (Darks should not be confused with the long exposure noise reduction images that some cameras can take where a dark frame is taken and combined with an image.)

Are closed shutter images a possibility for digiCamControl?

Re: Exposures with Shutter Closed

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:12 am
by Duka Istvan
Isn't possible to do such operation, because no sdk command for it, no matter if is Canon or Nikon

Re: Exposures with Shutter Closed

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:59 pm
by Davo
Thanks very much for checking up on this so quickly. I will drop this feature from the port.