Hi,

I bought Raspberry Pi 3 model b to set up asi120mc-s as all sky camera. I installed indi server and SWIG and can successfuly connect to the camera from Python.

If I set exposure under 2s. everything is ok (check attachment 1s.jpeg). But if I go above, band of 183px is less exposed than the rest of the image (check attachment 5s.jpeg). Do you have any idea why this would happen? I also attachedcamera settings (asi120mc-s_indi_settings.txt). This is python code snippet for capture:

def takeExposure(self):
self.logger.info("<<<<<<<< Exposure >>>>>>>>>")
#get current exposure time
exp = self.device.getNumber("CCD_EXPOSURE")
# set exposure time to 5 seconds
exp[0].value = 5
self.sendNewNumber(exp)
def newBLOB(self, bp):
self.logger.info("new BLOB "+ bp.name.decode())
# get image data
img = bp.getblobdata()
import cStringIO
# write image data to StringIO buffer
blobfile = cStringIO.StringIO(img)
# open a file and save buffer to disk
with open("frame.fit", "wb") as f:
f.write(blobfile.getvalue())

Thank you in advance and best regards!

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