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6 hours ago, kirkster501 said:
Yep, it's because clear skies are so few and far between that we have to desperately make the most of them when they do come along. In other countries with more clear skies it doesn't matter so much if you miss one, there'll be another tomorrow night probably. So yes, we are indeed knackered after a three night clear run, not that we get many of those.
It takes a brave person to leave the rig going at night whilst in bed in this country. I never sleep easily when doing so.
I must admit I never had confidence with SGPro regarding unattended automation. However, I have recently moved over to Voyager and now wouldn't hesitate in unattended imaging sessions. Don't get me wrong, writing a full dragscript code and incorporating full emergency procedures can be daunting to start with. Although, there are lots of examples to use in the Voyager forum.
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That's looking good, Francis. It's nice that you have had clear skies this evening to fine tune your scope. Unfortunately, for me, the clear skies promised this evening have not arrived and therefore, my fully automated Dome final testing will have to go on the back burner
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Hi John, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge
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3 hours ago, blinky said:
What sort of motor is that and where did you get the track from?
From Amazon & not Ebay. Although this shows a 400 RPM motor you will need something a little slower
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The motor is a 12v 20 rpm geared motor I picked up from Ebay as a trial motor. At the time I didn't think I could rebuild the shutter to implement automation. I did, the motor is far beefier than I realised and the track and gear were purchased from https://www.beltingonline.com/.
I will try to find the details of the motor, also.
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Here is my DIY Dome shutter I built earlier this year. It may not be a roof, but it let's in the night sky
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Hi and a very warm welcome back, Nephilim. Yep, AP can be difficult, demanding and expensive. Although, with your new collection you will stand a great chance of collecting some real good images
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Hi Fabio and a very warm welcome to the Lounge, That's a nice detailed image of Mars btw
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Hi and a very warm welcome to the Lounge
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Hi and a very warm welcome back to the Lounge
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Hi and a very warm welcome back to the Lounge
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13 hours ago, kirkster501 said:
Hi all,
I noticed that PhD2 (2.6.9) seems to be much more fussy about its guide stars and even a very high, almost imperceptible, haze that is very light will set it off chirping and force a sequence abandon in SGP or NINA. It's so fussy now that if we were to wait for the desert skies it seems to expect then we'd never image anything in the UK.
Is there a way to tell it to be more tolerant - or to tell SGP or NINA to be more accepting of what it is being fed from PhD2???? I must surely have something set wrong since I set this new PC up. I never recall it being so bad before. I am forever in sequence recovery mode even with very, very light haze passing by that used to go unnoticed by PhD.
Thanks, Steve
Hi Steve,
I normally guide at 1 sec in PHD2 and if there is any bad seeing. guide star lost etc I increase the exposure upto 4.5 secs if I need to. Any higher than this, it's not worth imaging and I give up until hopefully it clears.
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Hi and a very warm welcome to the Lounge
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Hi and a very warm welcome to the Lounge
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39 minutes ago, Gina said:
I've fastened the NEMA17 into the box but not been up to doing anything else recently due to ill health.
I hope it's just a short term illness, Gina and that you get over it fairly quickly.
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Hi, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge
+1 for Turn Left at Orion.
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Hi Andy, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge
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Hi Gil, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge
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At what point do you just... give up?
in Imaging - Discussion
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Yes you can and that is the real beauty of Voyager. You set up the attributes in a script file which is called "dragscript"
Here is my emergency script:-
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86 - Emergency Suspend: Wait Resume until absolute time : 08:00:00 [hh:mm:ss] - On Resume Timeout End DragScript
87 - Remark: ==========================================================
88 - Remark: ---- Control comes here if an Emergency Suspend event occurs
89 - Remark: ---- Park the mount and close the shutter or roof
90 - Remark: ---- Wait until 8AM for an Emergency Resume - Do Emergency Exit if no Resume happens
91 - Parking
92 - IF ERROR
93 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Suspend Parking Failed - Parking the scope failed in an Emergency ...
94 - IF TIMEOUT
95 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@mail.com - Emergency Suspend Parking Failed - Parking the scope failed in an Emergency ...
96 - Close Shutter
97 - IF ERROR
98 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Suspend failed - CLOSING the Shutter failed- In and Emer ...
99 - IF TIMEOUT
100 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Suspend failed - CLOSING the Shutter failed- In and Emer ...
101 - Emergency Resume
102 - Remark: ==========================================================
103 - Remark: ---- Control comes here if an Emergency Resume event occurs
104 - Remark: ---- Start tracking and then control resumes from where the Suspend happened
105 - Start Tracking
106 - IF ERROR
107 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Resume failed - Start Tracking failed during an Emergenc ...
108 - IF TIMEOUT
109 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Resume failed - Start Tracking failed during an Emergenc ...
110 - Emergency Exit
111 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Exit failed - GoodNight Actions failed during an Emerg ...
112 - Remark: ==========================================================
113 - Remark: ---- Control comes here if an Emergency Exit event occurs
114 - Remark: ---Run the Good Night action and disconnect everything
115 - Close Shutter
116 - IF ERROR
117 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Exitfailed - CLOSING the Shutter failed- In and Emer ...
118 - IF TIMEOUT
119 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Exitfailed - CLOSING the Shutter failed- In and Emer ...
120 - Good Night: Sync Warmup - Park - No CCD Filter Select
121 - IF ERROR
122 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Exit failed - GoodNight Actions failed during an Emerg ...
123 - IF TIMEOUT
124 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Exit failed - GoodNight Actions failed during an Emerg ...
125 - Dome Park
126 - IF ERROR
127 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Exit failed - The Dome Paking action failed in an Emer ...
128 - IF TIMEOUT
129 - Send Email using Voyager Account: xxxx@gmail.com - Emergency Exit failed - The Dome Paking action failed in an Emer ...
130 - Disconnect Setup
131 - Wait Time: 00:00:05 [hh:mm:ss] Interval
132 - Relay Off: 5 - ClientID 1
133 - Wait Time: 00:00:05 [hh:mm:ss] Interval
134 - Relay Off: 4 - ClientID 1
135 - Wait Time: 00:00:05 [hh:mm:ss] Interval
136 - Relay Off: 2 - ClientID 1
137 - Wait Time: 00:00:05 [hh:mm:ss] Interval
138 - Relay Off: 1 - ClientID 1
139 - Viking Client Disconnect: ClientID 1
140 - External Script: C:\Temp\Energenie_OFF.bat
Steve