ppurbano first of all it puts the camera at unity gain but that has less meaning these days. The biggest gain is the extended full well capacity. It can be useful for very fast scopes in the range of f2 to f3.2 so the pixels do not get oversaturated. Therefore it it is possible to do less longer exposures instead of more shorter ones. Truthfully the tiny bit of dynamic range increase also may not outweigh the very rapid increase of read noise at gain -25 compared to gain 0. It is nice to have options, whether it is useful for most… probably not and gain 0 for broadband and gain 100 for broadband and narrowband will still be the most used gain settings.

      2.12 does not work with iOS 17.2, it loads and gets to the firmware update screen but the green update button is unclickable and you are stuck there. tried on two devices (iPad Pro & iPhone 15) and both fail to update or get past the screen.

      I reverted off beta to the current live version in App store and the firmware update worked fine from 10.71 to 10.74. so something is wrong with the beta's update screen/button/process.

      if you could please please address the silly start in landscape, switch to portrait, back to landscape modes.

      please pick one or allow both, but don't force people to switch back and forth and have to fumble with their device that's in a stand or on a table.

        Guiding wasn't the best for me with the beta. I tried .2x guide rate which seemed to really smooth things out, but it wasn't making corrections soon enough. I hardly had any corrections in Dec and very few in Ra., Rms still over 1.

          I can confirm that the Sony Alpha 6000 is now fully functional and no longer displays those colored dots. I appreciate your assistance! I was starting to lose hope and had considered selling it.
          I couldn't try it at night bc of the weather these days. but my test in daylight was very pleasing.

            Kevin_A I dont know how you could even check but it was pretty obvious minmo had been increased.

              lenn1 Thanks for this! I may have to give my a6000 with ASIAIR a good run as well once the weather clears up 🙂

                  eokorie79 make sure that your battery is well charged or use a dummy battery

                    Kring my iPad starts in portrait for the splash screen and then switches to landscape once enter is pressed. I don’t see the problem.

                        How can this beta version be classed as 2.1.2 when in February 2023 zwo released beta version 2.1.49?

                        Having a MinMo of 0.2 is still proving to be a problem for my AM5 mount compared to 0.1
                        It just makes for clunky, laggy oversized corrections. I even tried dropping the guide speed to 0.25X at 0.5s guide exposures and no difference.

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                          Kevin_A Having a MinMo of 0.2 is still proving to be a problem for my AM5 mount compared to 0.1

                          Double your guide camera focal length and/or use a smaller pixel (mono!) camera like the QHY678M could help. Never ever use a Bayer color camera for multi-star guiding, even in the near IR region -- the average centroid will drift around by large fractions of a pixel as the stars scintillate independently.

                          Chen

                              w7ay i use a 290mm mini on a 240mm guide scope. Who uses a colour guide cam ? Gain is 200 with 12 stars. The doubling of the minmo has almost doubled the guiding rms.

                                andybutt What is not a problem for some may be for others. Just like having a speed control for the fan in ASI2600MM it's not a problem for me but a must for others. And it's OK for them to ask for it even if I don't need it, because me or anyone of us is free to ask for what they need. We are not the center of the universe neither everything orbits only around us selfs. A coherent interface design is what we are asking for, that's all. If that bothers you, sorry.

                                    minimoto71 I didn’t say it bothered me! I said I didn’t see the problem in my system. Maybe it is a different behaviour with other systems and I was not criticising Kring’s request. Maybe I should have worded my statement better so that you didn’t get upset. Your example of the 2600mc is a completely different issue, which currently cannot be cured (on some long FL systems) by the push of a button. I use a 2600 mc and don’t have the problem at 860mm focal length. I am not criticising people for asking for fan control. Anyway, thank you for your contribution to this thread. I will endeavour in the future to not be so “controversial”

                                      Image management is still broken in beta build 34... unable to manage any images from USB, app crashes on iOS the second you click a check-box of any image.