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Close enough that you'd have to do more work to tell the difference, I think. I don't believe it will be exactly 90° because the mount presumably runs at sidereal rate. James

Not that I'd want to try to persuade the OP to change to a different CAD package, but just for reference for anyone reading this thread at a later date... I started out creating parts for 3d printing (and in fact getting together the basic layout of my observatory) using OpenSCAD and found it worked very well for simpler designs, but as my ambitions became more complex I found it becoming harder to get it to do exactly what I wanted. In the end I decided to make the move to FreeCAD. It hasn't all been plain sailing, perhaps partially because I have no significant experience of CAD packages, but I'm now finding it much easier to design more complex parts. It does have it's own little foibles, but if you're considering a change of software then I'd suggest that it's worth a look. James

I reckon there's years worth of use still left in that rot. I'd try to get rid of the wood though. It'll probably affect the structural integrity. James

I have to agree. At a simple level I think if you are lighting up the sky then that energy is actually not lighting up what is intended and as such it's a waste of both natural resources and money. We don't really live in a world where either should be considered acceptable. James

I must have missed this thread first time around, seven years ago. These caravans are bonkers, but I don't mean that in a bad way :) James

Is that just a fan controller on the side of the heatsinks? James

Particularly a dark one. James

Just don't go making a gnuisance of yourself. James

Supermoons! Pah! They're just gnutonian physics! James

I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if the focuser were supported by INDI/Ekos. James

By "Moonlite with stepper motor fitted" do you mean with the Moonlite focuser controller, or a "random" stepper motor that needs stuff to control the stepper? I've not played with Firecapture for some years so I can't really comment on that, but I'd hope oacapture should work with the DMK41 on the RPi (I only have a Firewire DMK41, so can't specifically test the USB version) using the UVC interface. James

I'm assuming that's because it's a colour frame. Is there anything I can do to make that work with Jocular Martin, or is it just down to you finding time do what's necessary to handle that frame type? James

Jocular is reporting the FITS image as invalid? James

oacapture can certainly output FITS files, but I've never tried combining it with Jocular. Do post about how you get on. James

My apologies. I completely missed this message when it was originally posted. Please do PM me with a link to the original posting if I don't respond within a day or two. To set the location for the saved files, in the "Image Capture" tab there should be a couple of buttons immediately above the "FITS data" text that allow you to select and view the location for the saved files. It looks like no icons are appearing on those buttons in my development version at the moment, but a tooltip does appear if I put the mouse pointer over them so hopefully it will be clear. I'll try to check this out directly on Catalina as soon as I can. I upgraded my machine to "Big Sur" and now I'm having a pig of a time installing older MacOS releases alongside it :( I'm hoping to get a release out soon that includes bugfixes and support for more cameras, after which it is my intention to put more work into oalive in terms of stacking, darks etc. Unfortunately what I thought was going to be "a quick release with a few bugs squashed" turned out to be somewhat more troublesome than expected thanks to a camera vendor getting bought and SDK versions changing etc. James

For some definitions of "budget" :) James

OMG! as the kewl kids say...

Given the near total disconnection from the cycles nature of many people these days I'm surprised they're not now called things like "The Kanye Moon" or "The Bestival Moon". James

One day I might have sufficient bandwidth that iPlayer becomes usable If I miss something I want to watch that's on iPlayer I usually end up downloading the entire thing overnight at the weekend. Still, Openreach have promised me fibre to the nearest telegraph pole by September. Not that I believe it will happen by then, but I live in hope. James

Oooh, jumpers for goalposts! My maternal grandparents' next-door neighbours apparently used to keep a pig at the end of their garden when there were two of them (I assume the husband was dead by the time I was old enough to understand that keeping a pig at the end of a garden in Scunthorpe was, err, "unusual" James

She 'ad tripe? She were lucky! James

You'll be standing alone for that one. James

Not "Deadly" Doris Wainright, whose weapons-grade dumplings brought fear to the heart of many a child waiting in the school dinner queue? At least until that unpleasant incident with the pink blancmange, anyhow. Personally I think she was innocent, but it is true that Mr Groyne the PE teacher was never seen again. James

Well, there's no denying it's ambitious It's always good to think big, I reckon. James

I have no intention of getting rid of mine, but since I got the observatory partially up and running, clear nights have been sufficiently rare that I've wanted to be actually doing stuff rather than making kit work. The time will come though... James