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sinbad40

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  1. So i have never had it that far out. If the time, location and meridian are correct, I would have thought it was down to the head being moved while the clutch was locked. Have you got the pc going into the handset or the mount? May be worth disconnecting the handset if direct to the mount.
  2. It doesn't matter which side the knobs are, as long as you don't rotate the head by hand with the clutches locked. When you are in Stellarium, where does it think the telescope is pointing (if you have it polar aligned)?
  3. Well i hope its true, tired of watching cloud and rain now, months of the stuff .
  4. That is excellent. Not over cooked with colour and the dust stands out very well.
  5. Hi all, So I decided to give multi panels a try, and have captured some data over the last couple of nights. As I used narrowband filters, so 2 sets of data per panel (Ha/OIII and SII/OIII) I am not sure on the best way to do it in Pi. I have stacked and cleaned them up a little, but not sure if I need to stitch panel1 and Panel2 of the same data type together before splitting the colours, or split the colours, sort them in to SHO format, and then stitch them together. All help is most welcome. Thanks
  6. That is excellent, I am with Simmo39, defo going on the todo list.
  7. Thank you for the quick response, I can go and make a start while its not raining
  8. Happy Christmas everyone. So Santa has left a Lodmandy plate, as i want to mount my scopes side by side instead of stacked on top of each other. With the EQ6r pro, is it simply a matter of undoing the clutch and rotating 90 degrees, or would the head need to be taken off and resat? I think its the first option as the mount would still think its pointing at polaris, but would prefer those in the know to point me in the right direction. Thanks for any responses.
  9. put the pier in early this year, and cover all with a TG365 (bought bigger than needed), i keep a dew heater going and leave the mini pc turned on. No issues and plenty of air getting around. I did have some damp in it but that was down to one of my lads pulling the power and not saying anything, all was fine.
  10. one of my work colleagues based in France have started to do this with members from a French forum. They based it on focal length of the telescopes and not the aperture like BAT. They decide on a target, setup multi panels to be shared around etc.
  11. I have a 533 and will be trying a multi panel of this at some point. Was it 20% overlap used?
  12. My PC was good in the day, 32GB ram, I7 skylake etc, and it runs fine for 7 years old. If you are finding RC tools is one of the time killers, make sure you have an nvidia gpu with 6GB ram, that will allow cuda to be setup, and turns rc tools from a number of minutes to 20 seconds ish for me, and that is on an old 980ti. Tried to get it to run on my laptop which has 4GB 3050ti, found it didn't like it, read up on pi and seems they want 6GB to do it. Defo get ssd for the OS and PI files in use if you can. Standard drives for storage, cheap as chips, so get a big drive. 32GB RAM seems plenty, not had any issues at all, and thats with other apps etc running as well.
  13. Wanted to go for this one for a while, with a small frame size it would need to be a multi panel, unfortunately either the weather is killing me or its in the wrong area of the sky Cracking image with good dust lanes.
  14. I used Sharpcap, under the tools menu is the sensor analysis. If you go through that, it will give you a measurement graph showing gain against read noise. I also did a lot of messing around (when i had clear nights) to see what data is captured at different gain with different filters. I think Sharpcap is free but comes with a 1 year pro license with altair cameras, or it did when i got mine. I also went through a few youtube vids, try AstroStace, that was clear and showed what was needed to get the analysis done.
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