maxthebuilder wrote: Jasem,
Confused... I've been using EQMod with my AZ GTi (successfully). Should I switch to Synscan?
Thanks!
If you use EQMod then keep on using EQMod. This driver is only for users who don't have an EQMod cable and who want to use a computer connection via the SynScan hand controller instead.
HTH, Wouter
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I have been using my MacBook off and on with my hardware connected to it and it works like a charm. I have never used KStars on my MacBook the way you describe but I see no reasons why this wouldn't work. KStars is KStars and it runs on several platforms, MacOS included.
HTH, Wouter
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sarg314 wrote: I have 2 off topic questions about the use of astrometry.net for which the answers are I think short.
1- My primary imaging camera is a DSLR whose field is about 37 arcminutes wide. Is this a big enough field?
2- I need astromerty.net to work when I have no connection to the internet. Is that possible?
1-Yes it is. I have used astrometry.net with similar FOV and resolving works just fine.
2-Yes it is. Have a look at the plate solving tab in Ekos. There is a radio button to the lower left of the tab to use the offline plate solver. You will need to download the FITS files that contain the star position data to be able to use this offline feature. Please search the forum for instructions on how to do that.
Clear skies, Wouter
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Haha OK great. Still, managing to collect 11 h of data on a single object in one night is impressive!
Wouter
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When you chmod a tty device, it will be reset when you connect the mount again. A better way is to make sure that your Linux user is in the appropriate group. This very likely is the group dialout but I am not 100% sure. Please do an
ls -l /dev/ttyS7
to see the group. See here
www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/
on how to add the user to a group on Linux.
HTH, Wouter
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Again, this was reported before. When you do a search for Scheduler, you'll find this thread
www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/4382-re-re-ek...marking-aborted.html
It also states that it was fixed and will be available in KStars 3.1.0
Clear skies, Wouter
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Great pic! Very sharp and lots of details. Well done!
Question: how do you manage to take 110 subs of 60 minutes each in one night?
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This was reported before. When you do a search for Scheduler, you'll find this thread
www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/4382-re-re-ek...marking-aborted.html
It also states that it was fixed and will be available in KStars 3.1.0
Clear skies, Wouter
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Last night I used the 8" RC with focal reducer (F/5.4) and the ASI1600MM-C Pro to take this image of the galaxy NGC 2903. In total I shot 88.5 minutes of L and 60 minutes of R, G and B each. I did this in series of 3 x L, 1 x R, 1 x G and 1 x B with 90 sec L and 180 sec each of R, G and B. The light pollution is very unevenly distributed in my backyard with much more of it to the east. So by shooting in series like this I spread out the change in background over the imaging session and over each filter instead of over just one of them.
Processing, light pollution removal, background color calibration and star color calibration were done in AstroPixelProcessor. Then I used Gimp to apply Levels (darkening the background), Saturation, Sharpening, Noise reduction and Cropping.
Cheers, Wouter
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