Daniel Zaharevitz
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Daniel Zaharevitz replied to the topic 'FITS file size not a multiple of 2880 anymore' in the forum. 1 year ago

An update: I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 on a raspberry pi 4 and installed 3.6.3 stable and this format error was NOT in the fits files created with this setup. Seems like it could be Mac specific.

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Daniel Zaharevitz replied to the topic 'FITS file size not a multiple of 2880 anymore' in the forum. 1 year ago

This problem seems to still be in Mac OS X versions of 3.6.3. I tried the dmg downloaded from the KDE Education page, kstars-3.6.3-1637-macos-clang-x86_64.dmg downloaded from binary-factory.kde.org/job/KStars_Release_macos/ and the 3.6.4beta that Robert Lancaster posted a short while ago. All write FITS files that fail the Tester page in the same way as described in the original post on this topic. A lot of apps ignore it, but it seems AstroImageJ is more strict as it fails with an invalid header error. I'm using the SBIG CCD on MAC OS X 12.6.3

DanZ

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Daniel Zaharevitz replied to the topic 'Remote choices' in the forum. 5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback from everyone. I will definitely try both ways, but I am leaning toward running running the pi as an INDI server. Since I have to luxury of being able to make hardwired connections (at least in my home setup) I will try to take advantage. Sorted out some astrometry.net issues yesterday and now I just need some clear skies to start collecting some real photons.

DanZ

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Daniel Zaharevitz thanked AstroNerd in topic Remote choices 5 years ago

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Daniel Zaharevitz thanked Wouter van Reeven in topic Remote choices 5 years ago

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Daniel Zaharevitz thanked Radek Kaczorek in topic Remote choices 5 years ago

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Daniel Zaharevitz created a new topic ' Remote choices' in the forum. 5 years ago

I've recently retired and one of my big retirement projects is to get my astronomy equipment back into service and taking data. I'm almost exclusively interested in photometry of eclipsing binaries and exoplanet transits. In the past I have done sessions entirely manually and I am quite excited to take advantage of all the planning/execution features in KStars/Ekos. I have a Raspberry pi that I plan to use as the main controller, but I have a question: what are the considerations in choosing to use the pi as a Indi server and running KStars on the laptop vs running everything on the pi and using the laptop as a remote display? I had assumed that the less the pi has to do the better, but does that actually hold true?

I have a GPS dongle and want to set the time and location from it. If you are running Indi server on the pi and KStars on the laptop which computer should the dongle be on?

Thanks for any help,
DanZ

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