AstroShomy

Does anyone have any news on the StellarMate Pro controller?

50 minutes ago, Gina said:

That's amazing and very unusual - mixture of dome and ROR it seems.

Yes, it is. Whenever he wants, he can enjoy the full sky by rolling the dome off

1 minute ago, JamesF said:

Looks excellent.  There's a lot of concrete in that floor

James

Oh, indeed. Our backs still hurt

1 minute ago, heliumstar said:

Checked other pages on your astro society webite and your other obervatory looks great as well - https://aristarh.rs/drustvo/opservatorije/nostromo/

 

Yes, that is the other observatory made by our member and friend Vasilije (Wasko). The most beautiful one in our region.

4 hours ago, heliumstar said:

This looks amazing Miloše

Would love to visit next time I am in Serbia!

Anytime

That pier is used for a modified EQ8 and an EdgeHD11 (that is the current setup for that pier). We have to mount and dismount the setup at the start and the end of each session – hopefully not for long

Hi everyone,

I would like to present to you our observatory that we have been building for quite some time now. Hopefully, the end of the construction will be reached by the end of the year.

We are buidling it at our local dark location where we usually do our astrophotography works and obsevations. Who are we? Well, I am a member of the amateur astronomy society Aristarchus (Aristarh in Serbian). We are based in Central Serbia.

We have an article with the details of the contstruction, unfortunatelly, it is available only in Serbian. Luckily, you can get a glimpse of it if you use Google Translate:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Faristarh.rs%2Fdrustvo%2Fopservatorije%2Faristarh%2F

I would be happy to answer any questions you might have and I will share our further progress here.

Clear skies,

Miloš

Hi has anyone fitted a rotary encoder for manual focus,and if so how?

I am pretty much interested in this as well.

Today I received a WI-Fi serial module, and I thought I could use it for communication with my laptop. Yes, the voltage regulator should be used. But I am not sure if anything else should be changed.

http://rayshobby.net/first-impression-on-the-esp8266-serial-to-wifi-module/

If I wanted to communicate with the Arduino Nano via Tx and Rx pins, would anything need to be changed in the code?

What does the warning message say exactly?

hi guys i have connected everything up down loaded the easy driver sketch but it won't upload to the nano error message is 

avrdude: atk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10 : not in sync: resp=0x01

i know absolutely nothing about arduinos 

mark

For some reason, your Arduino is not communicating with your PC. There are numerous causes. First of all, check if you computer recognizes the Arduino when you plug it in. Under the presumption that your are using Windows, got to the Device Manager and see which port Arduino is connected to (under COM ports). Then, make sure that you select the appropriate port in Arduino IDE.

I have modified my stepper motor 28BYJ-48-5V to get a bipolar version since I need more torque.

It works perfectly with the driver L293D, I tested it with a test app.

But, I am unable to use this Arduino code without modifications. Someone suggested me I should use AccelStepper library, since I am no longer using a unipolar stepper motor.

Is there anyone willing to point out what should be changed in the code? I am pretty new with Arduino.

Thanks,

M