Damien,

Check all the XML files in the .indi and make sure that none of them are empty. If one is, either remove it or replace it with one of the default files (also present in that directory). See if that solves your issue.


HTH, Wouter

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Hi Jasem, Mark,

According to the info I have, these are the two FCUSB devices:

0x134a:0x9023 #FCUSB Focuser
0x134a:0x9024 #FCUSB2 Focuser

Mark, can you verify please that you have the second one?


Thanks, Wouter

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Not sure if anything has changed but suddenly I did receive an email because of a new PM. Still no clear notification for it in the forum web page though.


Wouter

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Ah yes, polar aligning in the south is harder for lack of a bright star near the south celestial pole. Sigma Octantis may work but is just too far off. I know since I moved to Chile recently and have had considerable trouble doing an initial rough alignment.

Perhaps collect your questions that are not related to focusing and polar alignment in a different topic?

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What mount do you have and does it have a polar scope? If yes then why not use that for an initial crude polar alignment? That works really well and should get you within, say, one or two degrees of the celestial pole. There are several tools available that can help you do that. KStars have a tool for this hidden away in some menu item and there are several apps for this both in the Apple and Android stores.

As for the grid: that is the equatorial coordinate grid with the center at the celestial pole. The pink line should not point to it because that indicates the offset of your mount w.r.t. the perfect alignment. Also, the center of that grid generally does not sit at the center of the FOV when your telescope is parked due to minor positional offsets of the telescope w.r.t. the zero positions of the mount. Just ignore the grid and focus on the pink line. That’s all that matters when doing a polar alignment.

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Have I introduced a security hole if I VNC into it over Internet by using these permissions?

When the pink line is longer than your FOV and it runs off your screen you can do two things:
- do a crude correction of the polar alignment by literally picking up the mount and aiming it better at the pole
- use the fine adjustment of the mount and place the star at the side where the line runs out of the FOV and restart the polar alignment

When using the fine adjustment you may or may not run out of play depending on how big the polar alignment error is which means you will need to pick up the mount and free up play for the fine adjustment. Also, you may need to repeat the polar alignment procedure more than once to reach a very small alignment error.


HTH, Wouter

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Hi Ron,

Good to see you are making progress. A few replies:

- In the KStars configuration there is an Ekos secrion in which you can specify that Ekos should be in a separate window. Then you can have KStars and Ekos on separate displays
- There is a button in the KStars button bars that should sync the KStars center of FOV with the telescope. Did you tick that? If yes then it is probably lag on the network connection between the RPi and your laptop/desktop


HTH, Wouter

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This forum support sending and receiving personal messages (PMs). The previous version of the software supported this as well and there, whenever a PM was received, you also received an email notifying you of the PM. On top of that, the forum UI would show that there were unread PMs in quite a clear way. Both functionalities haven't worked since the forum software was updated. Would it be possible to enable this again please?


Thanks, Wouter

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Yes this is possible as explained at the bottom of this page:
indilib.org/about/discover-indi.html


HTH, Wouter

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