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In setting up a 632 camera using ASCOM drivers there is a choice between QSI camera 1 and 2. ?I thought these were different drivers, but it now dawns on me that the number refers to the main and guide camera. ?If different drivers, which one do I use for the 632?

Bruce.

From memory, the ?“ QSI Camera 1”, “ QSI Camera 2” ASCOM driver(s) are identical, it’s just a way of connecting two QSI cameras to a single application.

When you open the ASCOM Camera Chooser menu with a QSI camera connected and select a QSI Camera, at the top of the ASCOM configuration window is a drop-down menu listing the QSI cameras found by description and a unique identifier string, If you only have a single QSI camera connected then there will only be one camera listed in that drop-down menu and you would select the “QSI Camera 1” driver in your application, if you try and select “QSI Camera 2” in your app that should in theory return an error message because a second QSI camera is not found.

If you have two QSI cameras connected then you would select “QSI Camera 1” in your app and select the unique camera identifier for camera 1 in the ASCOM configuration menu and then repeat the process for the second QSI camera but selecting “QSI Camera 2” in the app and then selecting the unique identifier string for the second camera in the ASCOM configuration menu.

I think that feature was introduced for users with two OTA’s and two QSI cameras installed on a single mount to allow parallel imaging from a single application, or the use of a second QSI camera as a very expensive guider by swapping between the two mounted OTA’s and reversing which OTA/camera was the imager and which was the guider.

HTH

Will.