Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Crab nebula  ·  M 1  ·  NGC 1952
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The Crab Nebula in HaRGB, Alex Roberts
The Crab Nebula in HaRGB
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The Crab Nebula in HaRGB, Alex Roberts
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Last summer, I purchased a QHY183M (mono) and QHY183C (color) on their two-for-one-and-a-half sale. I finally got around to combining data from both these cameras to produce the HaRGB image above, utilizing the NBRGB Script in PixInsight.

While these two QHYCCD cameras work just fine in SharpCap, Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) proved to be a real challenge in my case. Since I have come to rely on the great automation features that SGP provides, these cameras have been sitting around collecting dust for a few months until I could figure out how to get them working in SGP. (I don't have any issues with my ZWO 1600Pro and SGP.) For those who are having problems with SGP working with QHYCCD cameras, make sure you have the most recent version of SGP and the latest drivers from QHYCCD. Finally, a "USB Traffic" setting of zero makes these cameras play nice with SGP. Otherwise, one ends up with the dreaded hang-on-download problem or a failure to connect error message.

I hope this information helps someone out there.

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The Crab Nebula in HaRGB, Alex Roberts