Best settings for RPI HQ camera?

[WirthmU]

I did change another one of my cameras from allsky-teams to indi-allsky (the plan is to move them all).

Now after setting up from scratch I get this terrible messy picture:

This is the support info:
indi-allsky_support_info_202633_212453.txt.gz

I must have set something terribly wrong - which must be obvious to an experienced user and I am more than happy for any hints. The aim would be to have only black and white pictures for day and night.

Thanks

[aaronwmorris]

I am not exactly sure why this is happening. I suspect that you have image Stretching enabled during moon mode, which could result in weird artifacts like this.

I have a wiki page you can review for general recommended settings:
https://github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/wiki/Raspberry-PI-HQ-Camera

[bartbolsCipal]

I have similar, a handfull of photos when going from night to day and vice versa show up like this:
Only happened after i enabled stretching.

[aaronwmorris]

This is pretty common when switching from night to day when stretching is enabled. When the gain drops during the transition there is not sufficient data in the image and the stretching algorithm kind of goes wild.

You may try to use the Exposure Priority Gain Mode [Auto-Gain] setting which can more gradually change the gain when switching between day and night.

[bartbolsCipal]

Thank you for the reply, and the advice. I need my actual illumination to be relative to the real one throughout the night though, and therefore have chosen to disable stretching instead. I could also manually take these images out, but since stretching seems to manipulate the illumination dynamically id rather keep it as is.

Cool fact though, that images red dots are all my 'hotter' pixels, they are a constant pattern unique to the sensor. :P how cool is that