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The way we experience time definitely makes it difficult to understand its true nature but time does appear to be an intrinsic (potentially emergent) property of our universe. Jim
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Yep I think I have managed to turn off auto update and forgot about it. I vaguely remember manually downloading my current version of the app V2.1 10.74. I need to start writing these things down lol. Jim
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Thank. I have the app running on my iPhone and iPad, but mainly use my laptop vi bluestacks. None are flagging up a new update available. I think it's possible to disable auto updates and I wonder if that is what I have done. I can download the latest version from the App Store then. Jim
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Sensible stepwise approach to photography?
saac replied to Neutrinosoup's topic in Imaging - Discussion
@Neutrinosoup, for landscape astrophotography, the Samyang 135 mm lens is one of the most often praised lens matched with a DSLR. You may also find some useful information from Paul Haworth's Youtube channel. Paul is member of the forum (FenlandPaul) and he produces some of the most amazingly creative astro landscape photographs. I'd start experimenting with a DSLR and a suitable tracking mount, the SkyWatcher Star Adventurer or AZ GTi are are nice portable setups and often pop up in the second hand market. Once you're ready for a scope then the RedCat 51 is an excellent choice and if you marry it to a ZWO AsiAir (computer controller) and ZWO auto focuser and camera, then you have again a really versatile and portable wide field setup. Jim https://www.youtube.com/@nightscapejournals -
A few of the updates like fuzzy search and new LDN catalogue will be good. Much of the rest looks like support for additional cameras. I've just turned my app on and there's no message to update the firmware. How do you do it? There is a rest firmware function back that only rolls it back to either factory or previous settings far as I can see. If I can find up how to update I'll give it a go. Edited - just checked the forum - some users reporting usb port failures after update! Jim
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I tend to transfer the files from the AsiAir by downloading to my laptop (in the house) using the ethernet connection. I use a PowerLine Network adapter to connect the observatory to the laptop in the house. Works fine so far, touch wood. Jim
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The way I reconcile this is - because we (our intellect) are part of existence (ourselves products of the "after the big bang") we are constrained only to know that existence or reality. The common answer is that anything prior to that is not a legitimate question as prior is a measure of time and time appears to be a property of existence (part of the fabric of our universe). That leads to the entirely unsatisfactory "time", and hence "prior", did not exist before the big bang. That's so difficult for us to conceive because we don't experience time like that so our thinking is constrained. But as you say "hats off to them" - it's one thing to read about it, another to come up with it from first principles. They are genuinely gifted people. Jim
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I wouldn't like to let go any (Esprit 120, Bresser 8 inch reflector, SW 80 ED Equinox). But at the moment I'm having so much fun with my William Optics Redcat (black and white version). This really is an amazingly versatile and capable telescope. Jim
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I always thought, that the physics of the universe at the period of inflation were not those we experience now. The fundamental forces were not yet discrete (still unified) - not 100% sure so I may be wrong here. The faster than speed of light restriction is a restriction on mass, stuff in the universe, and not space itself, leaving the universe free to inflate faster than light as it saw fit. Exactly how physicists can predict what conditions were like during such incomprehensible timescales is always a source of amazement to me ! Jim
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So it may be a conflict with other pieces of equipment, different mounts, cameras etc. I use a plus and one of the old pros. My plus is mounted on my main setup at the moment and is getting fairly regular use with no real problems arising. Both connected by ethernet cable, I very rarely use the wifi. I connected the pro at Christmas just to get it ready for use with the other telescope and the only thing I had to do was update the firmware - this worked fine after an initial problem doing the update. I haven't used it in anger yet seems to be doing what it is supposed to do. Fingers crossed it stays that way. Jim
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@Glenbo, great to hear you are back talking to it, fingers crossed everything is fine now. Yes please keep us posted, if it does start playing up I can provide an image of my flash card with its working OS. I'm wondering what is going on here with the AsiAir, within reason we should all be using the same software assuming we are all on the same firmware update. So if it is a software issue would we not all be experiencing the same glitches! I must admit, and touch wood, I haven't really had these serious problems you guys have been getting. I connect to my AsiAir by ethernet mainly all the time but I don't think that should be a factor because the thing operates stand alone does it not? Whatever it is , it is frustrating and spoiling the user experience of what is otherwise a great piece of kit. Jim
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My card is showing 53.3 MB taken up by the AsiAir program and 20GB free space - I have no images saved onto it yet. It's a 256 GB (Samsung) card so yes it looks like AsiAir cannot access the full card capacity.; 32 GB is listed as the Raspberry Pi capacity so that makes sense I guess. Jim
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No worries Glenbo, I love the AsiAir, it's just one of those bits of kit that when it works it makes life so much easier. It is annoying that ZWO have allowed these firmware updates to detract from the reputation of the AsiAir which it surely will. Anyway, mines has connected up using both my win pc running through Blue Stacks and on my iPad Mini using the App. The photos show the screen on the iPad. Note, I haven't got any equipment connected but everything seems to be talking and reporting the way it should. Not sure what could be going wrong then, would it be worthwhile doing a reinstall of both the app and teh firmware? Jim
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I'll fire up my AsiAir Pro this evening, I have it with the scope sitting in the study, and see what I get. I have a plus mounted on the other scope and that has been getting the main use at the moment. Is it not now possible to roll back on the firmware updates? Any way give me a hour or 2 and I will see how I get on with the pro. Jim