Jim Smith

I used to take moon shots on my driven equatorial mount but last night I used a manual alt-az mount. I took 10 batches of 15 exposures at one second intervals. This took about 8 minutes in total as I had to manually realign the telescope between batches. I tried to process all 150 images in Pipp and Autostakkert but the field rotation gave me a rather odd result with duplicated craters. See top and bottom of lower, second image. So I processed just 20 consecutive images and stacked the best 10. I tweaked the result in Affinity Photo to give me the upper image which I am pretty happy with. But, is there a way of using all 150 images with some sort of "derotation" process? Thanks, Jim 203mm Classic Cassegrain - Nikon Z6 - 1/500s - ISO800

I gave in and bought a Seestar S50. Now I can see spiral structure easily! The attached image is 7 minutes stacked in camera but spiral arms are visible even on one 10 second exposure.

I don't think the phone ever connected to the WiFi of the Seestar. If it did it didn't ask me first and the phone always showed that it was connected to my usual home WiFi router,

Yes. I discovered that in order to activate successfully on my Google Pixel 7 Pro I had to have "Mobile Data" set to "ON" even though the phone was already connected to the internet via Wi Fi. I have no idea why that should be necessary!

Has anybody got stuck on the "Activation failed" message? I tried the app on both my Pixel 7 Pro and my iPad and neither could complete the activation.

I have a pair of Mk IIs which have now gone sticky so I might try the alcohol rub. The other problem I have is that the eyepieces fog up as soon as I raise them to my eyes. (My 8x40 Olympus binoculars do not.) Has anybody else had and hopefully, cured this problem? Jim

This from ZWO when asked the exact same question... "Simon Lewis (ZWO) Sep 26, 2023, 4:11 PM EDT hi Jim thanks for the question this is the number of pixels for the main camera thanks Simon " It seems there are two schools of thought!

I'm soon to try out my new Asiair mini. I have a question about dithering... When you choose the maximum number of pixels for dithering moves, are you specifying main camera pixels or guide camera pixels? Thanks in advance, Jim

Curious. I just tried again from my usual UK ip address and it still doesn't work.

Thanks. I tried a non-UK ip address and it worked just fine!

Does anybody know where to successfully download Asiair Studio for windows? https://dl.zwoastro.com/software?app=ASIStudio&platform=windows64&region=Overseas doesn't work for me. Thanks, Jim

Fforest Fields...

I asked Stellarium Labs and got a definitive answer... "Hello. Thank you for reaching out to us. Right now, you can only adjust how much more or less satellite labels you can see in the app by pressing the button on the lower left corner of the screen then long press the Labels button and adjust the slider for Satellites We will take note of this as a suggestion and take everything into consideration for future updates. If you have more suggestions or features you wish to see or improve or if you encounter any issues, feel free to email us again and we will be happy to assist."

Yes, I tried that. It gets rid of the labels on the satellites but not the satellites themselves.

I can't find a way on my Android phone either. Pity. I rather liked the app apart from the satellites whizzing across the screen all the time.