daz

That's superb! ‼️

I make that nearly 32 hours total integration time! How many hours processing Ola?

Thank you @John and @JTEC!

HI @Louis D

No, I don't suffer from any astigmatism, so open to 2" eyepieces - I already have a 2" diagonal, so no issues there.

I do wear glasses, but remove them when I do observe.

I will have a look at APMs as well - many thanks!

Thanks both!

I do like the look of the ES ones... and I could stretch to the 28 and 16....

In a similar vein to @vlaiv's post, I am also looking for advice on an eyepiece - but really have next to knowledge of them....

The objective is to use when conditions are not ideal for imaging, and will be used on my f/5.5 Esprit 100 and f/5.8 ED72. In the future, there will be a dobsonian in the family - f/4 to f/6 I would think. Casual wide-ish field observing is most likely to be the immediate plan rather than high-powered details - but of course, if the bug bites, then that would change.

I have a budget of around £230, but could push it - so it does not need to be one piece..

Options I have looked at:

• Tele-vue Panoptice 19mm: Consumes all the budget, but I guess there's a reason for that!
• Pentax XW 20mm: Again, consumes the whole budget, slightly wider AFOV at 70d than then Panoptic
• Vixen SLV's: After reading comments in Vlaiv's post, these could be a good option. 25mm & 10mm ?. 50d APOV
• Baader Hyperion: I had one of these in the past (years!) and seem to remember they were good. Is this still the case?  68d APOV

Are these sensible, would you recommend any others?

Thanks for any input/advice!

if you look through the SGPro log file, it should have details of why it didn't flip.

It's a busy log file, but quite easy to read through...

Fantastic image Steve - and a superb write-up on the object and the How!

A lesson for me in there, certainly!!

Another target added to the To-Do list

Loving this thread! I think I'm a long way from being able to do this but it's very inspirational!

Outside......

Sorry, I'll get my coat! Taxi for one....!!!!

On 29/07/2019 at 22:15, spaceman_spiff said:

I'm sure it will be worth the wait! Not long now...

 

They certainly are!

Awesome!

Will add this to PI when I get home

Can't access this from work ( 🙄 ) - but can you extract the stars, process them separately and then recombine?

Without seeing the error message you have...

Yes, there is a tick-box on the driver set up to allow meridian flips. 

Shout if you need us

Are the TIFFS because you are stacking in DSS then bringing into PI to process?

If so, could you stack in PI and produce the .xisf or .fits files? And do you have the master darks/flats/bias to go with them?

May as well have the full stack to play with

Mick

When you run the installation of the Atik software, make sure you tick the ASCOM drivers box - it should be ticked by default but worth checking. 

When you say EQMOD platform, do you mean the ASCOM platform?

7 minutes ago, johninderby said:

Just sold my ASI120MC because it’s incompatible with my tablet. 🤬

Hopefully it's new owner will put it to good use

This is called Chromatic Aberration - The failure to focus all wavelengths of light to the same point.

/following

Hi Radek

Many thanks for your reply - it turns out I am an idiot!! Although I was spelling the name of my SSID correctly, I was ignoring capitalisation!

As soon as I corrected that and rebooted, I can now again connect to my AB Server! Yay!!!

So, onwards to retry the VAP!!

Thanks!!

So, I WAS able to connect my astroberry server to my WLAN and remote onto it via the browser.... (note, was!!)

I decided tonight to try and get the VAP working so I could connect in the field, and this is where it all went wrong!!  I was not able to connect to the RPi at all using the 'astroberry' VAP, although my Ubuntu client 'seemed' to connect and receive an IP address. No matter what I tried (browser, VNC) I could not connect.

So, I went back to my WLAN to try and figure things out, and now it won't connect to the WLAN at all... I've tried a static IP address, but that didn't work and now I get a "No DHCPOFFERS received" message when I restart the wlan0 interface! I can only access by plugging into the device with screen/keyboard/mouse, I can't remote to it at all...

The wpa_supplicant file shows the network correctly, and I have even deleted the entry and redone the wlanconf but still no joy!

Aaarrggh!!

Hopefully @RadekK spots this  but anyone shed any light in the meantime? I'd like to get back to it working on the WLAN before I try the VAP again!!

Ta...

I have installed the Astroberry server onto a Pi, and although not actually connected it to anything, it has all the functionality to do the mount.... There is a (huge) thread on the INDI web site regarding Astroberry

The demo is free, but you need to pay for a fully functional version (saving is disabled in the demo).

£15 is not bad though!

That is very nice!

Not seen any of those Trevor Jones vids, but will go browsing tonight