CedricTheBrave

I use the steel track on my 200PDS with a teckydave focuser. As you may be able to see from the photo it has a very useful dovetail on the body of the steeltrack to help attachment. I cut a clamp in half and drilled/taped so it could clamp into the dovetail. The belt needed is a HTD 3mm pitch all available on ebay.

if you have a spare board would you sell me one?

will be very low may have to find a decent spot on the south downs if the weather is clear

That is the best image of Mars that I have seen fantastic

i use my Nikon d7000 or Canon 700d to plate solve and PA no problem

video you link to is using a 3x barlow

min runs on a 4gb rpi and never comes close to using more than 30%

how much space on the camera card

Have you updated to the latest version of the build? these issues are similar to my early builds of Astroberry but it has been stable for a while now. run from the terminal sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade hope that helps

they supplied a plastic P clip to tie up the USB cable to stop it falling out not a great fix tbh i do only use it for firmware though as I use a Bluetooth dongle to connect to it from astroberry

its also used to update the firmware rather than the serial port connection on the earlier models I have the Pro R I didn't know it had encoders!

oops wasn't me honest! Thankyou for placing your order. VX14-10pv. VX14 Optical tube assembly 1/10pv upgrade

Just updated the motor control firmware on the mount so will give it a go next time I can see some clear sky it was one step behind so unlikely to fix it but always worth a try.

very lovely

i would try loading the firmware onto the handset

Hi my EQ6 R Pro does this exactly the same plate solve to a star, sync then park and try to go back its a fair way off it also does do the pause sometimes its as if it gets to a point then thinks oops i went the wrong way mine is mains powered with a 600w psu so i don't see power as an issue think its a software glitch but as it doesn't cause me a major issue i haven't spent time diagnosing yet

super thanks, i will have a look at doing the it does look better

20 x 180s iso 800 stacked in dss Nikon D7000 10 x darks no flats (I know) finally found the setting so i didn't lose any colour maybe a went a bit far the other way!

I am running Astroberry on rpi4 4gb it boots, connects to my bluetooth focuser and eq6rpro, i load kstars it focuses on a star, i choose a subject it slews and platesolves and then starts guiding have it runnng quite slick now with either a Canon or Nikon DSLR or my zwo planetary cam all via vnc on my rpi4 8gb in my kitchen very happy with the whole system

thanks for the link I will have a look

Hi everyone hope you can help How do I go about calculating the FOV when using a X4 powermate? my plate solving fails when I fit one on so I am guessing the FOV settings need to change unless I am missing something else? many thanks

I know they are a pain but sometimes quite mesmerising! http://myallsky.co.uk/videos/allsky-20200802.mp4

the way the steel track mounts on its difficult not to get it square unless you use different spacers i will check the secondary again thanks for your help

fitted a new steel track focuser to my 200pds! i have spent a while collimating it using various methods and they all appear to match up and the star donut is good however when i take some flats the visible vigneting is not centre it looks about 10mm towards the bottom of the frame when the top of the frame is the top of the scope is this important? does it show that the collimation is still not correct?

Looks good Gina Mine has been running for a while now and I have noticed the dome, camera etc have all been affected by sunlight. The dome showing signs of fracturing and changing colour! Not sure it will last a full summer. It wasn't a cheapo one either.