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  1. Can always query Dan Gray of SiTech directly what that AUX port pin-outs are...
  2. Used in the field 2 weeks ago on an actual dark sky trip here in Western Australia. Luckily had put some practice time in backyard testing the "local" solve method a few weeks back and all seemed to work well ... except that "Murphy" sturck!! :-/ ... because I wiped out the astrometry.net files inadvertently from my laptop harddrive and had only a single solve file available; unfortunatetly the remote site was in a state nature reserve without internet access and so I just had to go visual instead (didn't bother to drift-align due to the fact it was only a one-niter and time was short) - anyway did enjoy the visual exercise which I missed for a quite long while. Have to wait for next new moon to try this out again in the field with all my astro-imaging gear decked out ready and just using PPA to polar-align; quite confident it will work as it should Cheers Bill from a very hot Perth, DounUnder!
  3. Hi Themos Some Queries Before a live Run using PPA please! 1) With v1.0.4 are PPA_coarse.cfg and PPA_fine.cfg still required and relevant if AstroTortilla is installed and one wishes to use the "local" solves? 2) Would it make any difference if one has the CWD (ie parked position with the mounting pointing to SCP + counterwieghts pointing down) and had the DSLR in a portrait position for the first shot and then slew in RA to the horizontal postion for the second shot or the DSLR in horizontal position with the CWD at the start for the first shot and then slew in RA to take the second shot as portrait position? Methinks it doesn't matter as long as the image used in the solve is the correct one wrt the "vertical" & "horizontal" buttons. 3) After taking the first vertical & horizontal shots would a delay of time period affect the results of the "Show Improvement" plot? ie if say one were to take the third shot intentionally 5 mins after the first two were solved? I suppose I could experiment and find out for myself but am time-poor atm, not wishing to wait for next week but rather would like to try it out in my backyard for practice first with my EQ6! Cheers Bill from Sunny Perth, DownUnder
  4. WooHoo Themos! That fixed the issue - so my Astrototlla was not fully configured correctly and that now works a treat! Thanks for a very handy tool and I will give this app a shot when I go to my remote dark sky location in around coming new moon and report back here my experiences with it so that others can benefit from your efforts Cheers Bill from Sunny Perth, DownUnder
  5. Themos Thanks for v1.0.4.Want to ask some "silly" questions re: Local rather than online Nova use for obvious reasons; don't know whether if it is my fault/ignorance or whatever but what I'm experiencing at the moment with your included test images:1) if I were to select "local" on either the "v" or "h" jpegs it takes a long time trying to solve but bombs out eventually. 2) however if I were to solve only "v" jpeg via Nova first and "h" jpeg by Local when the solve is completed only the "v" jpeg shows a computed data whilst "h" jpeg & "i" jpeg though showing "Solved" in green has no computed data showing in that field; the local solves takes only aro 3-6secs.3) and if I were to then do a "Find Polar Axis" the computed data fields will be poplulated with data!See attached screen shots. Also included is the settings page of PPA.I have a feeling that my Astrotilla is not configured correctly and but am not too conversant with it though so any pointers would be greatly appreciatedTIACheersfrom Sunny Perth, DownUnder
  6. Thankyou mate - that's running now though I had to use command shell to run Python and PPA.py manually - I'll not worry about the file association issue at the moment since I can use PPA by writing a simple batch file to do it instead Cheers Bill from Sunny & Extremely Hot Perth, DowUnder
  7. Hi Themos Thanks for the reply - did already the right-mouse click "Open With" and even though I selected the python.exe file by browsing to it and ensuring that I selected it as the "default program" stubbornly it doesn't do it at all and I get back other installed programs in the list except Python!! Done a few other hacks as well as posted by others on the web but to no avail - methinks a "wipe & re-install" is required as I feel that the registry is corrupted somehow. BTW this is what I get when I ran PPA.py in the command shell: C:\Users\Ops\Documents\PhotoPolarAlign>python PPA.pyTraceback (most recent call last): File "PPA.py", line 1501, in <module> APP = PhotoPolarAlign(master=ROOT) File "PPA.py", line 1495, in __init__ self.Sniff_AstroTortilla() File "PPA.py", line 1305, in Sniff_AstroTortilla lfn = os.listdir(dir)WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'C\\Users\\Ops\\AppData\\Local\\astrotortilla.sf.net\\AstroTortilla/*.*'C:\Users\Ops\Documents\PhotoPolarAlign>HTHCheersBillfrom Sunny & Extremely Hot Perth, DownUnder
  8. Hi Themos Seen this app in iceinspace.com.au thus wanting to test it out in the SH and downloaded the version 1.0.3 and also Anaconda Python 2.7.x (initially the 64-bit verison & subsequently the 32-bit version) and after installation unfortunately my Windows 7 64-bit OS "refused" to allow me to associate PPA.py with python.exe (both 64-bit as well as the 32-bit version of Python) - I went through several installs & uninstalls but to no avail - "run as administrator" as well. Googled probable causes of why I cannot associate the .py file to a program to run and done several registry hacks as suggested and still no-go!! Am at a loss as to what is causing my issue so will probably have to rebuild my astro PC back to basics and start afresh unless you can think of any reason why I cannot associate the PPA.py file to the python.exe program TIA Cheers Bill from Hot & Sunny Perth, DownUnder
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