Bart wrote: Hi,
I have a similar issue. I just didn't want to start a new topic for it, but now you brought it up it's good to contribute:

I've had two occasions in which I had my nice and shiny data the next morning and found out that the ASI1600mm recorded everything in 8 bit, while the day before it was data as expected at 16 bit depth. In the mean time I did not change this.
It's happened some days later again (and again totally unexpected) I happened to catch it after a quick check of one of the FITS. I hate to make it part of my work-flow to check if all settings keep being set as I set them before.

I've made a screen capture of it. Of course I had no logging on, because who expects a failure, right?



-Really- tiring that Stellarmate is so unpredictable/ unstable!



I experienced the same problem the other day, fortunately I saw it after 10 frames before I let the rig run by itself overnight. I tried switching back to 16 bit, but couldn't. Restarting Kstars did not help either.
I finally compiled the drivers fresh from the source. Then everything worked fine again. So far.
I did not open a topic, because it seemed like a fluke with not much to go on. But reading this, I now think there must be a more systematic problem.

Jo

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