Thanks for the reply, I will apply it and see if it works.

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Hi All,

Hoping I've just changed some stupid setting but for some reason my images are no longer saving on my Rasberry PI and I don;t know why. Since the 27th February they haven't been saving over the last couple of days. I have been changing settings to get my images onto my camera SD card which hasn't been working and now somehow I manged so that the images are not saving in my normally directory of home/astroberry. No idea what I have done. here is a screen shot of my CCD tab where you can see save locally and the correct directory, I tried remote, tried changing folder name, looked through many different settings, other than this where else is there to look?

Thanks



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Hi All,

I recently did an imaging set with my Raspberry PI and Ekos, but it looks like my lights saved internally to Raspberry PI as FITS files and when i came to complete flat files depressing the shutter It is saving Flats as CR2 within the camera SD card in a slightly different pixel size. After stacking obviously my flats didn't apply to my final image at all because of compatibility. After doing some research I realise there is a way to take flats though Ekos, but to do it is a little more complicated requiring some setting for my camera. If I am using a Canon D50 camera is there anybody aware of what setting I need to input for Ekos to correctly expose my flat frames?

Hi Thanks all for responses - I figured out what it was, since I recently reinstalled Kstars I lost my current geographical location and timezone so the mount obviously didn't know where to point correctly. After changing my geographic to nearest city and corrected to my timezone all seems to be pointing accurately now.

Thanks
Tariq

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Hi All,
I am hoping this is a simple fix of something I've never had before. So recently I received my Skywatcher EQ3 back from a service I had done to it, should be as good as new. As I have tried it out tonight, I seem to be getting an issue where the mount can't seem to pin point it's location. I am using Astroberry Kstars/Ekos and when I slew to a star say Procyon it just points in the complete wrong direction, so I gave it a simple task of pointing to Polaris and plate solve Polaris, considering the mount is already pointing in park position at the NCP it should be simple for it, but looking at the coordinate error it just seems way way off, does anyone know why the mount doesn't seem to know what it is pointing at? Any help much appreciated.

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He thanks Fred

I believe for K Stars I am using version 3.6.0 Stable and not too sure how to find the Ekos version number

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Hi All,
I noticed whilst I was playing with Ekos doing plate solving last night, even though there is agree that I am at the correct FOV i noticed my FL came up highlighted in red and when I hover over it it says "Active telescope supplied effective focal length in mm. Update telescope focal length to match the effective focal length to speed up plate solving."

Could this be causing me an issue or something just needs to be ignored? picture of the message attached.

thanks again
Tariq

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Thank you Fred for that input, I have downloaded those extra index files I am not sure how I missed those ones! It is hopefully a clear sky tonight so I'm going to give another try and see if it makes a difference with any luck it will. I'll keep you posted cheers

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Also

Ah I see thank you for quick response

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Hi everyone, Hope someone can help. does anyone know what I am doing wrong with incorrect FOV displaying for my camera and telescope. Please see the image attached. My equipment is a Celestron Astro Fi 125mm (5 inch) 1250mm FL with a focal reducer making my scope a 6.3 focal length. I have a Canon 450D camera. I calculate my true FOV to be around 1.59° x 1.06° but for some reason Ekos is giving me 96.9x64.6 which what might be throwing off my plate solving. Can anyone tell me where to change these values so that it gives me the correct FOV?

Thanks for any help
Taz

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Hi All,

wondering if anyone can help tips to make things easier. I love the look of the Polar Alignment in Ekos but is it easy to do? I really struggled with it. I have a Celestron C5 with a 0.63 reducer and a Canon camera 450D on a Skywatcher EQM35. I appreciate the FOV is narrow but solving PA images are no problem and it does this and rotates the mount every time solves no issue.

My problem lies trying to get the star I choose in the target. No matter what polar alignment error I have I can't seem to make the star follow the line. So using 800 ISO or 1600 ISO on 5 second shutter speed I get to the point where I chose a star and calculate error option. I choose a bright star and it shows me the green/yellow/magenta triangle, but then as son as I press refresh on 2 seconds, for some reason the star i clicked on disappears and seems to show different star pattern on the next capture. If if i choose a big bright star (think i even selected Polaris once) as soon as I press refresh, the next capture comes and boom the star is gone. Could the mount be slightly moving from the moment of choosing a star to refresh the next capture? So at this point the star pattern as changed not to give up, I try to use another star in the FOV bearing in mind it is not on the corner of the triangle overlay anymore I could still sort of send it in the direction of the target roughly to get closer and retry the alignment process again in theory. Comes my next issue, even using another bright star i can't seem to follow it or make it move, it just seems to fall off the FOV, even if it tells me the direction to go say left 1 degree and up 1 degree, I don't even know which way right is on the adjustment knobs which way is left, I have a red dot finder So I have just been using that as a guide for right left up and down, sometimes it goes in the direction i want and sometimes it doesn't I'm just going off guesswork. I have managed to whittle the Polar alignment error to say 10 seconds on the declination and then maybe 30 seconds on the RA. and then I want just a little more which i try and then repeat the PA process again, then it goes to 4 degrees error, repeat the process now it's 7 degrees error, so i have completely gone the wrong way not knowing which direction is the right way. It took 4 hours last night to try and polar align and only stopping because my camera died because I was determined but I just packed up.

I know this all sounds really noobish, I just wonder if there is an easier way. is there some kind of live feed so it is easier to follow the star rather than 2 second refresh because things are changing too much on each refresh to follow easy.

Thanks for reading

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