kirkster501

The lack of a ton of ads makes the site so much better. Chapeaux for FLO for picking the tab up for the site.

Ballpark how much does it cost to host SGL Grant with a cloud server of those specifications in that IaaS type configuration? A reasonable sum I bet. Do they leverage bandwidth charges as well?

You may want to investigate the CCDT67 from Astrophysics. I plan on using this on a F11 Meade 14".

It all continues to work well and site loads well. Notice from the IP address that it is hosted by Digital Ocean in London.

All running well and logins working.

Yes indeed, "you never know"! How many times have I said that before.... ? Do you know which geographical data centre runs the SGL server or no idea and it is just hosted in the cloud somewhere?

Interesting,. thanks Grant. Are you going to run the two simultaneously then cut off the existing server at 9 after a DB snapshot ? I've done many of these over the years in my job.

What server and OS does it run on currently Grant?

TBH, I am becoming more interested in this form of wide-ish field with Canon (Samyang) lenses than I am wide field telescopes. Indeed, my FSQ85 is starting to get a bit jealous and unloved. For sure I think am going to sell the FSQ 0.73 reducer and put it towards a QHY camera to mate onto the Samyang lenses.

What app are youy guys using on your phone to do this? Wow Geof, you get a 2? In England????

I'm Bortle 5. On a clear night does not seem so bad. Always a balance been accessibility to services/civilisation and being able to do astronomy. Regardless of Bortle class, give me some clear skies. I'd happily swap a drop in Bortle and have more clear skies.

With my side-by-side bar, my obs roof just clears - by an inch or so - the top scope (my TEC140). I have to be careful, at 3 in the morning, rolling the roof back so as not to whack the TEC. I would have made my peer a tad lower if I built again. Still an option to angle grind two inches off the top but I'd rather not if I can help it.

So what was wrong with it?

I'm at the beginning of my journey with this fabulous lens that I acquired two weeks ago. Using with Canon 1100D (modded) at the moment and want to switch to a QHY183C. Also, this lens is a beaut with a £20 adapter on my Fuji XT2.

I recently bought Geordie's 135 to add to my 14mm and it is sublime lens. I am getting started with wide-field. It is on my 1100D at the moment but I am looking at fittign my Atik 460 to it. Adamar98, how did you connect your Atik 460 (with filter wheel?) to the lens? Is it canon fit? Mono?

Can see those easily.

Miraculous, another clear night here..... Set to ASCOM 16 bit driver with maximum dyanmic range. Aggression 80 on both axis and hysteresis algorithm on both. It's looking good........ Seeing is rubbish and blowing out Alnitak. May try the Z algorithm.

You took the words straight out of my mouth kens ?

Thanks Vlaiv, I have done this and using the ASCOM driver now. I have also set the DEC to Hysteresis and with 90/10 just like in RA. It was getting late so did not have time to really test this out but it was looking promising. I will look into the Z-filter algorithm suggested by kens too. I'd be interested to know what other MESU users have their guiding parameters set to.

Thanks guys, definite progress tonight and some great tips. Many thanks. Feel I made some progress with this.

I find yo have to STOP the guiding. Let things settle down and THEN start again to get teh graph flat again.

It is so termpermental; I reduce the minmov to 0.1 and it all goes crazy. I put it back to 0.2 and it remains crazy. Look at this start of crazy swinging of the DEC......

Thanks vlaiv/folks, will check into your suggestions. How do I stop the Saturation of the stars? A lower exposure?

Correct I meant aggression and yes, a MESU. Guided with a 600mm FL Celestron guidescope.

Been really struggling with guiding recently after moving over to guidescope in anticipation of a dual rig imager, it has been all over the place. Not had the best of winters to experiment really. Anyway, it was crap again tonight. Increasingly depserate, I increased the hysteresis from the default 70 up to 90 on 5.8 sensor and 600mm guidescope. Wow. Pancake flat. Will keep my eyes on this before I get too smug prematurely! Please let this be the fix I have been looking for......!