• Fix incorrect status being shown for expired SharpCap Pro licenses

• Fix problem with ASCOM focusers if ASCOM platform 6.4 installed

• Various bug fixes

• Smart Histogram Brain improvements
• Add option to skip binning tests in sensor analysis
• Better logging around failure to detect Celestron cameras
• Special handling for camera access blocked by Windows privacy settings
• Various bug fixes

• Work around issue with measuring sky brightness on some QHY cameras
• Tweaks to feature guiding

• Improvements to Sensor Analysis – prevent measurements from getting stuck and prevent moving on to next stage if sensor not properly covered/uncovered.
• Altair Cameras – SDK update – bug fixes and new model support
• Filename templates – warn if sequence template will cause captures to be overwritten because it does not contain {Index}

• Fix crash with Altair cameras when a camera started with binning 2×2 is changed to binning 1×1
• Various other bug fixes

• Fix problem with ZWO cameras not being seen after upgrading to 3.1.5180 from a previous 3.1 build.

• Altair Cameras – updated SDK to support new models and fix bugs
• ZWO Cameras – updated SDK to support new models and fix bugs
• QHY GPS Cameras – GPS info in the status bar and option to log all GPS data to file

• Clarify data usage and rights under GDPR in End User License Agreement
• Tweaks to Live Stack Auto White Balance

• Fix zoom using dropdown not keeping the correct point centered
• Enable saving of unstretched FITS files on QHY cameras
• Enable smaller ROI selections on Altair 183 cameras
• QHY SDK Update to 2018-05-02

• • Update QHY SDK to latest version 2018-04-24. You may need to install updated QHY drivers from their web site and then reconnect the camera.
  • Add ability to Enable/Disable custom buttons via scripting
  • Fix bug that was stopping most bug reports from being sent 🙁
  • Add hotkeys

F1/F2: reduce/increase exposure
F3/F4: reduce/increase gain
F5/F6: reduce/increase offset (offset/blacklevel/brightness)
F7/F8: move focuser in/out

• Fix SharpCap failing to start with Kapersky installed
• Fix FITS headers written using ‘,’ as decimal separator based on Windows settings
• Fix control panel width shrinking on close and restart
• Other bug fixes

• Fix potential issue with future upgrades

• Fix wrong stacking time shown in live stack
• Make live stack reset to black straight away when ‘clear’ button pressed
• Stop feature tracking point markers from getting into the first few captured frames
• Other bug fixes

• Add missing file required for PGR camera support

• Fix bug where using a dark frame did not alter the Smart Histogram colour bar guides
• Stop SharpCap from trying to repair the .NET framework if you choose to repair SharpCap
• Various bug fixes

• Improvements to plate solving speed/reliability

• Fix gain changing incorrectly on QHY163M
• Improve settings UI for entering plate solver location

• Various bug fixes

• Allow SER file writing for Webcams
• Various bug fixes

• Fix several bugs
• Enhancements to the deep sky test camera to allow vignetting/dust spots to be added via an ‘anti flat’ frame
• Fix synthetic RAW frames incorrect when applying field rotation in the deep sky test camera

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• Fix issue with live stacking displaying frames with nearest neighbour interpolation, making them look noisier
• Fix display of raw frames in live stacking
• Add status indication to live stacking to help indicate what stage of stacking is in progress
• Reduce number of redraws of image occurring when display stretch adjusted

• Fix sigma clipped stack not saving correctly to 32 bit when image is very dim
• Fix saving live stacking continued to save raw frames when paused
• Fix mount control buttons not showing as disabled when mount disconnected/parked
• Other bug fixes

• Fix out-of-memory issue if repeated frames fail to align in live stacking
• Add auto-colour balance button to live stacking colour adjustments

• Fix flat frames not being applied when live stacking a camera in RAW mode
• Reduce memory usage during live stacking
• Various bug fixes

• Fix failure to detect that certain Celestron cameras are colour
• Fix failure to sync AltAz mounts that can only sync to equatorial co-ordinates

• Add support for FITS writing at native depth for ZWO cameras
• Various bug fixes

• Add option (general settings) to write FITS files from 10/12/14 bit cameras at their natural bit depth, not stretched to 16 bits [Advanced use cases only – saved files will appear dark unless stretched]. Currently Altair cameras only.
• Various bug fixes

• Try to save live stack (or stop capture) cleanly if an error occurs that will cause SharpCap to close
• Fix crash caused by changing dock width under some circumstances
• Other bug fixes

• Fixes problem where live stacking fails to align if R/G/B adjustments set high when starting a stack
• Other bug fixes.

• Feature Tracking and Seeing Monitor for Solar/Lunar/Planetary
• Smart Histogram and Sensor Analysis for Deep Sky
• StarlightXpress Camera Support
• Improvements to Live Stacking including sigma clipping, better hot pixel removal with darks
• Improved Polar alignment with refraction correction and enlarged atlas.
• Reduced memory usage in several areas of the program
• Improved memory allocation techniques for buffering large numbers of frames in high speed modes
• Improved performance on high speed cameras. Smoother zooming.
• Update to ASCOM 6.3, improved compatibility with Focusers, Wheels and Mounts
• Improved performance when debayering RAW frames for display
• Always on mini-histogram with display level stretch
• Advanced options to customize file naming
• QHY CCD still camera support
• TIFF and JPEG output formats
• Auto restore of camera parameters
• Many bug fixes