Ibbo!

Well I can see a bit of detail in the video.

Tuning looks a bit off though.

I am confused on the 3 slots coment

to tune rotate the front of the etalon and tweak the tilt to even the illumination across the disc.

the metal pins act as a stop

Can you upload part or all of a ser or avi to You tube

I have installed a 1 TB WD NVMe that was on offer.

So far I have used it for solar collection and get around 46 fps compared to the 58 fps on the Dell SFF with a samsung Me, but seeing as this is supposed to be used in the field I am quite happy with that so far.

I have not cloned the Win 10 across is there a benfit to that ?

The Venus sers i took the other day with 300 x 300 ROI did a whopping 390 fps

The usb/serial arrived today at last and so did the snow so that will be tried tomorrow if the weather co-operates.

So far i have the QSI CCD,  lodestar,ZWO 178 mono, the Hitech astro hub,shoestring Dc focus controller,  Nina and firecapture all up and running.

Also Any desk.

I plan to try Sharpcap as well.

I would like a better 12v screen as I'm using a 12v TV at the moment that is a bit grainy. I am going to hook it to a PCmointor to see what thats like when I get the usb/serial and the mount up and running.

I have run it via wifi indoors but not yet in the obs as I have a network for that and transfering 10 to 60 Gb of solar data is best done by cable.

Baby steps.

On 31/12/2021 at 22:52, PXR5 said:

Nice captures, I am looking forward to an active Sun this year!

Thanks.

So am I,it is picking up.

17 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Very nice, plenty of action going on there.

Yes there was but disc has quitened down today

50 minutes ago, Stu said:

That’s a shame. What’s the seeing like? granulation any good?

By the time I got to the WL the seeing had dropped away so not good.

Typical isn't it, constant cloud while the AR's flit across the disc then as soon as they go round the far side it clears up.

15/15 for me.

Good shot Luke.

Managed both venus and mercury with the binos stood on top of the potting bench so i could see over next doors garage.

Managed a few wide snaps but only got venus and jupiter, saturn and mercury washed out.

On 17/12/2021 at 22:35, markse68 said:

Hi Ibbo, I had all sorts of usb connection issues with my QSI- the camera would connect but not the filter wheel or vice versa. Running APT/NINA as administrator solved it- haven’t had any issues since- I have all my ASCOM sw set to always run as administrator now. worth a try if you haven’t already.

Mark

Finally got it connected using the latest QSI drivers and switching to NINA 32 bit and as you suggested opening as Admin.

Now to get it to talk to the mount via a serial converter.

Thanks[

Saw the moon briefly in a gap last thursday when returning from a foraging session at the supermarket and the sun last weds not had a glimmer of anything since except grayness.

Done a little looking around on the net and it looks as though 2023 is the next decent year.

https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20220209_11_100

My couple of reasonably successful UV images of Venus came with the 8" RC rather than the C11.

I have not tried this time round due to the altitude and local horizon.

Not good clouds clouds and more clouds

plus fog

and did I mention clouds ☁️☁️

2 hours ago, markse68 said:

Hi Ibbo, I had all sorts of usb connection issues with my QSI- the camera would connect but not the filter wheel or vice versa. Running APT/NINA as administrator solved it- haven’t had any issues since- I have all my ASCOM sw set to always run as administrator now. worth a try if you haven’t already.

Mark

I will give that a go when the weather improves a bit.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I have just got mine.

The idea was to build a rig so I can build up a mobile setup to use for my solar imaging, to avoid the bad seeing of the backyard horizon.

So far two runs have been done and i can say that the frame rate was good at around 40 + fps and upto 60fps

Next step is to try going mobile.

I have also tried it with NINA with my QSI ccd but the QSI will not connect as yet - driver issue.

Everything I have connected so far works, except the QSI having said that the QSI/Nina has also failed with the old Toughbook I have been using out there.

I will test it with my SX ccd when its a bit drier in the obs.

On 04/12/2021 at 10:14, astro mick said:

This has the makings of a great image.I await the colour.

Mick.

Thanks Mick.

You could be waiting a long while with the weather.

7 hours ago, MartinB said:

Nicely framed and stitched together Steve.  I love those faint outer wisps.

Thanks Martin.

I have added a bit more to it, now 8 panes.

Anybody else think of "Alien" when its posted this way?

Do the clicky dance for full res