Well, I got some pictures. 

They aren't super nice because my mount is not great at tracking and I don't have a guide scope/camera so I am limited to about 10 second exposures.  All that being said though, the camera (thanks to Ben's hard work on the driver) is working nearly flawlessly.  The only issues I really had during the night were a couple camera lockups when ekos told it to take a preview frame while the target scheduler was still active (so the camera got told to take a picture while it was in the middle of an exposure).  The driver could be made to handle this, but honestly that feels more like something indi should be handling (return with an error code "hardware already busy" or something like that to the calling routine).

As promised though, here are some pictures.  The first image is a single, uncalibrated 5 second frame and the second is 15 frames that were caibrated with a master flat from last night but dark and bias frames from 5 years ago (because I forgot to take new dark/bias frames last night -- shame on me).  The stacking was done by astropy, with the frontend to astropy being a website I am developing to store and process astronomy stuff.  The website is not online yet but it is running locally on my laptop while I develop code for it.  So these images were take using open source control software (kstars/ekos/indi), using an open source camera driver (provided by Ben), stacked using the open source astropy with stacking controlled by an open source web interface written by me.  That's a lot of open source goodness. 

Anyway, here are the images.  I am looking forward to getting back out again tonight to do a bit more experimenting with my setup (I forgot to try any temperature control stuff last night, was too busy working out the rest of the stuff and learning to use ekos more efficiently).Well, I got some pictures.  

They aren't super nice because my mount is not great at tracking and I don't have a guide scope/camera so I am limited to about 10 second exposures.  All that being said though, the camera (thanks to Ben's hard work on the driver) is working nearly flawlessly.  The only issues I really had during the night were a couple camera lockups when ekos told it to take a preview frame while the target scheduler was still active (so the camera got told to take a picture while it was in the middle of an exposure).  The driver could be made to handle this, but honestly that feels more like something indi should be handling (return with an error code "hardware already busy" or something like that to the calling routine).

As promised though, here are some pictures.  The first image is a single, uncalibrated 5 second frame and the second is 15 frames that were caibrated with a master flat from last night but dark and bias frames from 5 years ago (because I forgot to take new dark/bias frames last night -- shame on me).  The stacking was done by astropy, with the frontend to astropy being a website I am developing to store and process astronomy stuff.  The website is not online yet but it is running locally on my laptop while I develop code for it.  So these images were take using open source control software (kstars/ekos/indi), using an open source camera driver (provided by Ben), stacked using the open source astropy with stacking controlled by an open source web interface written by me.  That's a lot of open source goodness.  

Anyway, here are the images.  I am looking forward to getting back out again tonight to do a bit more experimenting with my setup (I forgot to try any temperature control stuff last night, was too busy working out the rest of the stuff and learning to use ekos more efficiently).