Colour pixels in overexposed area - Sony

enaiman

Just noticed this issue when testing my A7RIV (seen it also on Facebook on another camera type as well).
The zones which are very bright (overexposed) gets this sort of colour pixels (see heavily zoomed in image). I have noticed it in the middle of very bright stars as vell in certain parts of M42; the bigger the blown area the worse tha pattern becomes.
This pattern does not exist in the RAW images, only in the FITS and makes me think it is a coonversion artefact; whatever software library is used internally by AA needs some work.
Ayone else noticing the pattern (zoom in a lot on the brightest parts) please add your experience in this thread.
Thank you,

PMTeam@ZWO

enaiman Please try to select [Uncompressed RAW （Only）].

omegathered

I've haven't had the chance to fully test it outside but I was just learning how to use everything inside and unless I tweaked everything a certain way I would get the same issue.

enaiman

omegathered Would be interesting to see the results.
From my further testing, there appear to be other type of artefacts as well - darker this time and showing around stars.
Stacking will eliminate colored pixels from overexposed areas but will stack the others and make them stronger.
Screenshot is from the unedited FIT file.

enaiman

Looks like the "Compressed Raw" is the culprit here.
If this was a known issue to ZWO, why there is no mention about this? Plenty of advice how to set your camera and nothing about this - not cool.

lenn1

Hi, pls have a look in the ASIAIR 2.1 release thread.. I posted a picture there that exactly have those artifacts in orions nebula core.

SFQ5dIdc

I am still seeing this in 2023 with an A6000.

Tech@ZWO

SFQ5dIdc We will release a public beta version soon that solved this problem.
We appeciate if you can test that, thanks.

enaiman

Tech@ZWO I know the issue is reported as solved in the new version.
My AA+ is on the last version and now the same Sony A7R4 won't work.
Followed the same connection steps, camera connects but that's it - ISO cannot be changed ("N/A"), exposure time cannot be changed from 1s and "Exposure Failure" when you try to take any image.

Nothing has changed in my setup except AA+ having a new firmware.

Tech@ZWO

enaiman Refer to this to check your settings and try again.
https://joeytroy.com/sony-a7-iv-asiair/

enaiman

Tech@ZWO All the settings checked and according to the guide.
Menu look different in the link because the camera is not an A7R4 (I have mine on version 1.20 which is the newest).

Only difference was the absence of shutter cable but that was never needed.

Just out of curiosity, did anyone actually test if it works with that camera?

Tech@ZWO

enaiman Yes, it is compatible with ASIAIR, some users have reported it works fine.
Can you please take some pictures of your settings? and please reproduce the problem and submit the log in the ASIAIR APP, thanks.

enaiman

Tech@ZWO Thanks for replying.
Will do.