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Hi Steve, I was also interested in looking at the NINA software. But, unfortunately, at this time, it does not offer Dome Control. Steve

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Hi Graham, I have always used Fits files for my images, normally 16 bit, but as of late 32 bit. The fit file structure carries with it the astro details for that particular file and is usually called a Fits Header. If the bit data is the same for a tiff file and a fits file there should be no degradation between the images. In fact, StarTools, an excellent image processing programme, outputs Tiff files and not Fit files. Steve

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Thanks Graham, I will look into this. Steve

Hi Steve, Having migrated to Ascom 6.5 I've had some quirky issues with POTH and reluctantly changed to Device Hub. Shouldn't have worried. It works great. Steve

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Unfortunately, Nina has no Dome control Steve

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Hi Muc and a very warm welcome to the Lounge. Nice to see another Tal added to the forum Steve

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Thank you Nigel, four years of planning and implementation to to get to the Obsy automated. Now let's get your Obsy sorted.... Steve

Well, last night I set up SGPro to run 5.5 hours of images to start at astro darkness, a test for the newly implemented shutter and the dome in general. At 9:24 pm SGPro kicked in, connected PHD2, opened the shutter, slewed the mount to the required target and synced the dome. So far, so good. After plate solving and focussing the imaging commenced as normal. So off to bed and see what tomorrow brings. Awoke to the Dome sitting in it's parked position and the shutter firmly closed. On entering the Obsy I found the mount parked and 5.5 hours of images stored on the hard drive. The one failure is a vbs script I had written to power off the electrics had not been implemented. Not a big deal as I know this works perfectly in Voyager. One happy chappie Steve

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Hi Nigel, In retrospect I would have implemented the "full loop" drive chain approach, but I was worried about what happens at the fully open & fully closed positions and the amount of play this system has. However, the limit switches take care of this as they switch off the power and any play is taken up by gravity. The drive system I implemented, requires accurate placement of the limit switches and no allowance for error, which is a daunting, as if I had a limit switch failure it would keep trying to drive the shutter past it's stop. To overcome this I have checked the ampage under full load and fused 1 amp above this load. Have a look at a more powerful truck windscreen motor, although I would have though a standard windscreen motor would have sufficed. What sort of sliding mechanism is your shutter using at the moment? Just an update. After a few discussions with Hugh Gillespie regarding the electrical gremlins I had, I now have a fully functioning shutter system and are now implementing the safety systems ready for a fully automatic system. BTW the Magic Wire system works a treat Steve

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