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Just to give an example of the need or lack of need for the guide scope and main scope to be pointing at the same target: 1. For visual if they are both alighend the lager fov lets you find the target easier in the finder scope. Needs both aligned. 2. You want to image a particular target but there is no good star in the fov of the guide scope. Adjust the guidescope to show one and guide on that. Not aligned but intentional and OK. You will see some of the heavy weight guidescope adapters have adjusters for point 2 And to further answer your question if the guidescope and main scope are not aligned. You can still use the PA routines that take images and platesolve with either scope, the PA process is the relative axis of the mount to a fixed camera view (main or guide). Hope that helps.

Not dumb. Some focuser used grub screws to fill the holes as it looks neater I think the ones with a head are a bit easier to identify but that could be based on my experience and not reality 🙄

There are some other members with the same scope with the finderscope base fitted on the focuser, the web page for the scope also mentions the scope focuser has the connection point. They are usually filled with a screw rather than left open which causes the confusion. From the pictures I've seen the connections are at the 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock positions. Suggestion if you edit the title to include the scope as 102ED-R an owner of one might see the thread and respond.

I've only just added an ASIair to my collection but like with Astroberry & Stellarmate I use an Eqmod/EqDir cable from the ASIair to the mount and don't need the handset at all. I thought that's what most users are doing nowadays.

If you PA using your guidescope then your mount will be aligned (for that session if you setup each time). Software PA alignment basically does that by using your main scope/camera and platesolving several positions to work out your current PA axis from what it should be. When guiding the target in your dslr will keep the same offset from your guide star if your PA is good.

What type of computeer do you have? If it's a desktop PC you may be able to add a com port adapter for a few quid if the motherboard has the pin connector present.

Oh that it was as easy some years back when I first dabbled. Much the same with the newer PA software - much simpler and even linked to platesolving.

I have recently purchased a 'new' Intel Nuc5i7RYH from Ebay with 8gb memory and a 250gb ssd card - it was listed for £270 with offers accepted (my offer of £250 was accepted). I also noticed an Ebay discount code which saved me a further 5% off - so worth looking for these occasional Ebay inducements. The Nuc arrived fine with Win 10Pro installed and works fine. I also added another ssd drive - and noticed they had left the adapter cable out of the box - I contacted them and they sent it first class. So a couple of points to note on the later Nuc models (mine is an i7) The casing style/ports have changed a little on newer version. The above has a mini-hdmi and DisplayPort so you may need a cable/adapter for initial setup To use RDP I belive you need Windows Pro You may need to adjust the power/standby settings to keep it running when in remote usage The later Nuc may not run 12v - though earlier ones apparently do OK at that voltage I have yet to use it in anger for astro as I am still playing around with Raspberry Pi (Astroberry, Stellaremate and ASIair Pro).

I presumed that you would have just done a continuity test to discover the colous of the cables for the respective pins from the diagram. But glad you have the issue resolved.

Does this page help http://eq-mod.sourceforge.net/tutindex.html

Does this link help? https://www.firstlightoptics.com/telescope-bags-cases-storage/aluminium-case-for-evostar-80ed.html

I'll let others confirm or not whether that would work, I can't quite get my head around it. But I do understand the normal use and now how it's aligned.

As I understood this is a phone is just like a platesolving finderscope that gives arrows to the chosen target. So I am at a loss to see how it would help if not at least roughly aligned (but preferbaly properly aligned).

I'd seen the cradle had adjustments for the phone camera position but I guess the addition of ball-head adjuster by others and cloud fever led me down the wrong thought path.

I sit corrected and registered it in the far recess of my brain. 🤔

I would think you also need to allow for alignment of the phone so that the target is centred on the app, your finderscope and your actual scope view, in the same way you align the finderscope to scope view.

I could not see the exact statement as you mentioned it, but you are right it does not do a good job of clarifying what runs on what.

Here is says use indigo as login & password.

If I read that page correctly they don't say that Ubuntu 20.10 will run on the older models, just that Ubuntu is available on them. 😲 For any readers of this thread see Ubuntu page for their coverage of the various Pi flavours.

I presume you mean with the Nikon attached you will take & save an image at each appropiate stage asked and use the virtual camera to open it. Whether the polar alignment routine has the option to open the image is another matter. Prior to Sharpcap having the polar routine and before Polemaster one of the forum members created a polar alignment program which uses saved images and would prompt you in a slightly more manual way. See PhotoPolarAlign if I recall correctly you can download and use test images to get the hang of it.

I use a program called Rufus for writing Linux images to sd-card, found here. Though I do have a usb3 adapter for sd-cards, so it's normally done in around 10 mins.

The usual work arounds revolve on boosting the ASIair signal through an extender. For example: 1. Use an external device to boost your home wi-fi. If the device is DC powered and next to the mount you can use a wifi connection or possibly a lan connection between the ASIair and the extender. 2. If the extender is in house or garage but near enough to let the ASIair get a good signal then use that. I have one of these in my garage to extend my wifi signal for the garden and rear of house. 3. Use an extender to boost the ASIair wifi broadcast signal into the house. 4. For portable and away from home there are a lot who use a TPLink device (such as TP-Link AC750/TL-WR902AC) to do create a hotspot for their phone/ipad and ASIair to connect to. This video gives you an idea why the Rasberry Pi has a hard job broadcasting a wifi hot-spot, given the size it's amazing what it can achieve.

I seem to recall that the wifi on Raspberry does not have any way to use an external connection and is limited to the onboard aerial - there are some daring individuals that cut the traces on the Pi board and add an external connection but not something the normal or even expert would probably want to try. You may have seen usb wifi connections with nice big aerials but whether the ASIair Pro could use that over the internal one is the key question.

Yes trustworthy and well known in the Hertford Astonomy Group. I have even collected gear I purchased from his house in person - so no worries with him.

IF IT WAS AN ENGLISH TO FRENCH TRANSLATION IT WOULD PROBABLY BE IN CAPS 🙂