lx setting

alcolmoon

Can you provide a simple explanation of what the LX setting of the 120mc is used for?

Thanks

Sam@ZWO

what is LX setting?

alcolmoon

Hi Sam

Thanks for reply. I am very new to astrophotography and have recently taken delivery of the 120MC.

When I run it on Sharpcap, one of the options is to "Enable LX mode on this camera" I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that LX mode was to switch the camera into long exposure mode?

Sam@ZWO

this is not needed for ASI camera

that's used for webcam

alcolmoon

Thanks Sam, very helpful.

alcolmoon

HI Sam

Just had a thought with a further question.

I used the fisheye lens last night and got the stars focussed on the screen of my laptop, but I didn't understand/know how to set up the capture. I was using Sharpcap.

Can you clarify what I need to set the fps figure to and what to set the Frame Divider to?

I assume the frame divider, if set at say 20, will mean the software will write 1 in 20 frames to the capture file. And thus when these frames are played back as a video the image will be seen 20 times faster than real time?

Also, if exposue is set at 2 seconds, presumably fps have to be less than 2?

Thanks for helping

Alec