Hello,

I am very new tp Astrophotography but wanted to start out using my trusty Nikon D200.

I have a setup a test rig and have the following setup.

Astroberry running and connected to my network.
Nikon D200 with 18-200mm AF-S DX lens
D200 connected to the rpi using USB tether cable and USB mode set to PTP on the camera.
lsusb reports the Nikon D200 connected in PTP mode.
Indi and kstars see the D200 and I can see the camera options using the indi control panel.
I have set the image size and pixel size from the online source database.
when I try and take a preview in the capture tab I get a failed to expose error. I can't seem to get past this.
Can anyone advise the basic settings I need to set on the D200 indi control panel or the camera to be able to at least preview and image and take test exposures.
Once I can confirm I can control the exposure I can move on the mount and other things.

The idea is to setup an astrophotography station in the paddock. We live on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and have amazing dark skies as very low light pollution.
I have power and a wifi network for the security camera etc. to the paddock so the rig would be self contained with the rpi and astroberry server and all electronics remote.

I would then connect via the network to control the mount/camera etc. using my desktop. All images would be saved on the NAS server on the network and can them be processed using my powerful Ubuntu workstation.

But I cannot seem to get off the ground with even the basic connectivity to the camera and have read many many articles which are light on detail as to how this black magic works.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Stephen

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