gentlebear76

I 3d printed some for my skymax 180 when I had the same problem: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1c9db84e9f63e24826737e51/w/9c45839ad49745f3d6a60074/e/ce0c58e13c587b74511bad1f?renderMode=0&uiState=65a0fa254f325822d98b8841

I added some felt to the inside so I wouldn't scuff up the paint on the ota

Wow, what a beauty. I'm not envious - not at all - nope - nope..... 😂

I'm using https://www.suninfo.dk/index.php?lang=en for looking up when my site is usable. It is both in Danish and in English (small flag top right corner). I really like it as it makes it easy to see the moon phases i relation to darkness - and it's very visual which I like a lot 🙂 Unfortunately you can't use it to modify the darkness. Astronomical twilight is back-ish (midnight till 3 am) where I am but no night until mid August and then only for an hour between 1 am and 2 am.

@happy-kat @Gina @AngryDonkey Thank you all for your input. I am running a Raspberry pi and wrote my own software using OpenCV. It's clunky and total overkill but the API of the ASI cameras dictated that at the time. I'll take a look at both the INDI stack and at allskyeye. Thanks again ?

Michael

I see that some use SharpCap for recording and a mention of something called "allskyeye" but when I look for the latter I get a reference to SkyEye but no software. I have rolled my own which is not exactly optimal, so what experiences so the rest of you have with regard to software?

Just now, Gina said:

No.  It's fine.  Here's an image from last year in full sunlight.  Exposure of 32 microseconds.  I'm just about to put my ASC back out having been doing a few upgrades.

Nice  That has been my main fear with my setup. 

On 05/06/2018 at 12:01, Gina said:

That lens works rather well with a ZWO ASI185MC camera.  Just slight cropping of the full view at top and bottom but unless you really have views to the horizon all round it won't bother you.  That is what I am using in my ASC.  The camera will work in the daytime as well as at night except in full sunlight when it does overload at minimum exposure.  A DSLR has far too larger a sensor.

You don't have any problems with the sun destroying the sensor? Well, obvisouly not, but that is my main worry about having mine out all day. No problems there?

Hi :-)

Gina, what lens is that? Do you perhaps have a link to a seller? I would love to get a better coverage of the sensor as well :-)

/Michael