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    Powerline adapters where to mutch of a haslle. Kept failing when using dew heater controller as it was inteferring (PWM). With Cat6 I now have 300/300Mb internet in the observatory.
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    California NGC-1499 in Ha

    From the album: Observatory 17b

    Camera is Zwo Asi 1600mm-c, with Baader Ha filter. All subs is @Unity and offset 21 cooled to -30c 70x 2min lights 26x 5min lights 200 biases 16x 2min darks 9x 5min darks Remotely imaged on the night from 7th to 8th of January 2017
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    A little update on Observatory 17b From the time of the install there have been some changes. The biggest one is moving to a mono CMOS camera (asi1600mm-c) with filter wheel and ZWO LRGB + Baader HaS2O3 filters. I have also installed the remote controllable dust cap, and fixed down the styrofoam plates. (One night of imaging a styrofoam plate came loose and almost ended at the neighbours). Weather has not been kind, but I did get a weekend of imaging after I installed the new camera, and did manage to remotely set up and get a image I'm happy with. And just to add, the water proofing of the obsy is spot on. I run the fan always when I'm not imaging and there are no moisture, even with all the rain there has been. So some pictures of the changes, and my first good remotely collected image NGC 1499, California nebula. Also, feel free to visit the observatory's website. (in my signature)
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    The struts are two linear actuators, for remotely opening / closing roof. https://gimsonrobotics.co.uk/categories/linear-actuators/products/gla600-s-12v-dc-long-stroke-linear-actuator For flats I have a a4 led backlit drawing bord. Bought it cheap from ebay or aliexpress. I have a usb cable with 5v connectet to a relay for it, but it's not installed yet. Need to get my remote controlled dustcap redy first, and a proper polar align. I use this driver for roof and powerrelays. https://github.com/magnue/indi_usbrelay2_roof Buissy with work most of the time, so I can only work on the obsy on rain free weekends...
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    Looking good! No more of that pesky calibrating every night. Just need one of these then? http://www.clasohlson.com/se/Kabelsamlare/Pr365203001 and a few of these http://www.clasohlson.com/se/Dubbelsidigt-kardborreband/Pr318147000
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    Network issues fixed! Added a cat6 network cable to the build, and now have stable 300Mb/s in the observatory. Have done some more testing the last week... I have been imaging remotely from my home, and things just work (except for network speed). I have been having issues with the powerline adapter. Dew heaters killing network, guiding aborting when a image is downloading (due to low bandwith), aso. However! All drivers is working, EKOS is a joy to use and the only thing left to do is polaraligning. It's clouded today, but sooon I will have a calibrated observatory --2016-12-03 16:33:31-- http://speedtest.tele2.net/500MB.zip Resolving speedtest.tele2.net (speedtest.tele2.net)... 90.130.70.73, 2a00:800:1010::1 Connecting to speedtest.tele2.net (speedtest.tele2.net)|90.130.70.73|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 524288000 (500M) [application/zip] Saving to: '/dev/null' 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 18.9M 3m42s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 18.4M 3m45s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 34.3M 3m11s 150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% 43.5M 2m47s 511800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 333M 0s 511850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 319M 0s 511900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 261M 0s 511950K .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........100% 306M 0s 512000K 100% 0.00 =14s 2016-12-03 16:33:45 (301 Mb/s) - '/dev/null' saved [524288000/524288000]
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    It's been a while since I processed a image with only an hour of subs, but heres first light of Andromeda. 6x 600 sec lights at iso 800. No calibration subs. Stacked and processed in PI. Will have to nail focusing and do a proper polaralignment, but I'm happy most of the obsy is working. I had to leave for home to get ready for work tomorrow, and I'm not comfortable leaving it imaging alone yet. Will have to 'get to know it' first. Some pics of the install
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    Consept proved! Just finished first 10 min sub of andromeda I can happily say tath the Orion ssag (qhy5) is working with INDILib 1.3.1. I have not got it to work in erly testing, but now it calibrates and guides with minor changes to default settings The new EKOS interface also lloks great. The image could have rounder stars, but I have not finished polaraligning yet, so room for improvement.
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    Hi, again The obsy has gotten a real weathertest with a lot of rain, and it's 100% dry to the touch inside Last night I installed all the gear (- flatfield lightsource, and electronic dustcap), and I managed to do a two star align on the avx. I did encounter a issue, that stole many hours. I made a tread for it here Dew heaters destroys powerline network signal Atlest I managed to do an initial focus of the scope and guider, align the scope, guidescope and red-dot to the same point and two star align the avx. Hopefully I will have time today to start polaraligning the mount. First ever image from the obsy. Not stars, but getting closer
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    Doesn't seem like I can catch a break on this winter ting.. It has been raining almost every day over the last ten days or so, since the obsy was completed. It is atleast getting a good weather test The network has settled on a very stable 10Mb/s, so that should hopefully work. I also found that the dlink camera can give me a clue if it's clouded or not. Even in complete nighttime I can see the clouds to the west illuminated by a little village. In twilight I can see everything thats going on, and rain is obvious. Day Sivil dusk Clouded night Night time IR and rain. Hopefully the rain will clear some time, so I can install the mount and get on with imaging
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    I know, it's one of those compremizes... Where the router is located theres only a 2x wall socket. The Zyxel is so big that it would cover both. In that case a pc, monitor, printer, scanner, etc would have to be powered by the Zyxel pass trough. a 1.5 meter extention cord is the best option for now. Shall see how it works out, or if I have to think up an option.
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    A quick visit to the remote location, and I'm happy with the two day trial. There is 5 drops of water inside, and its a easy fix. I could feel that the inside of the inlet vent was moist, so I think angling it upwards will let it drain outside rather than inside. Other than that everything was dry to the touch. Even my wet snowy footsteps that I left behind when building had completely dried up when it was poring down outside. The networking issue was a easy fix. I moved the zyxel (powerline adapter) from a 1 -> 4 socket adapter to a short extention cord with no power switch, and it helped a lot. From hovering around 300Kb/s and dropping out from time to time, its now hovering around 5Mb/s. Not extremely fast, but a lot faster then wen I was testing in the garage, and that worked. For anyone not aware on how to speedtest over ssh, then the command is: wget --report-speed=bits --output-document=/dev/null http://speedlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip The link can be the testfile of any speedtest. Ill mount the dlink ip camera and the hardwired safety button to close lid in case of network loss, and do some remote tests.
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    Thanks for the comment poogle, looks like you are making progress fast. You should be happy that you are building it on the balcony. Getting mine up from the basement was a two month incremental task. With everyone busy with work and such, this time of the year. The 'everything here is frozen now' comment has changed to it's poring down with rain. Super happy that the install was completed in two days, and the obsy did not have to sit outside under a tarp, with servers and all in the rain. Next time I visit the remote location I will truly see if there are any leeks. I have logged on a couple times and everything works, except a networking issue. When i try to run a speedtest.sh script (that downloads a 500MB file) I have, the download speed starts low then goes up to 1MB/s, then it starts dropping. When it drops down to ~0KB/s I loose connection, and cannot reconnect for a while. I hope it's a easy fix, but don't know... I did not experience that at any point when testing in the garage.
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    I cannot believe it, it's done <(''<) <( '' )> (>'')> I really feel I have to add a huge 'Thank You' to my parents for helping me in this build. It ended up being my mom and I that finally got the roof up the stairs. For the 'portable...' pier even my parents neighbor helped to get it up the stairs. There are some things left, like installing the scope, polar aligning and such, but all servers etc is installed. Will have to tidy up the plastic sheeting around the edges, but rain finding it's way between the roof and building will not be an issue. Got to test parking and unparking the roof a couple times. To my surprise the full travel of the linear actuators was the limiting factor on how far the roof opened. The roof did however not hit the awning of the house, so I'm happy with how it turned out. Should be able to image from the East trough the zenith and to the west horizon. Just have to wait for some clear skies to test everything. Can hardly wait
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    Yay! Almost seven months after starting the build, I have started the install I managed to finish the south an west wall, mount the north wall and wheel in the pier. Then it started snowing.... Hopefully I will complete the obsy install tomorrow. I'll add all the servers and gizmos and the awx, but I will hold off installing scopes and cameras untill the weather clears. I'm not going to be able to test the wather resistanse in a while, as all wather is frozen here now. I am hoping for no kondensation thoug..
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    Ok. Fingers crossed
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    Does the QHY5 work well with indi for you? I have the rebranded Orion SSAG, and have some issues. Due to time limitations I have not been able to test it in good conditions with indi, always poor pa or something else wrong, so have been using LinPHD2 (or is it LinPHD), witch is not so picky. Have tested a lot in simulation, but it almost always fails to calibrate. Using 'Pulse CMD' in celestron_gps seems to help, but the real test will bee (soon?), when everything is installed.
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    That's true. If you look at garden sheds turned into hobby workshops connected to the mains, i'll bet you will find a lot of dodgy viring
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    That shoul be the safest when it comes to wather, but make sure the items iside do not create a unsafe combined heat! If it's vather proof then it does not have a lot of ventilation. If you have powersupply for roof, mount, dewheaters, servers and more, then it can get hot without ventilating. I have one 20amp 12v powersupply. This is either opening closing the roof or powering mount and dew. Then there are 2x 5.1v for servers and usb, one 12v power over ethernet for dlink ir camera, a 6.8v for Canon and the buildt in adapter for the Zyxel powerline netvork. All of those can make some heat if in a small space without ventilation.
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    I have some of the progress, but not the finished product. All connections are now in weather protected boxes for outdoor use. I have also installed the outgoing vent with the duct fan. I made the hole for the fans power vire a diameter of 5cm, an added a 5cm hole down low on the plate seperating the telescope room from the electronics. So the electronics should have good ventilation. I could have used shorter vires so it would not look like a birds nest, but everything is properly insulated and safe
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    Just to be sure I will fill the inlet vent with some leftovers I have of this http://www.webzoo.no/default.pl?showProduct=4672&pageId=600 Any moisture drawn inside by air flow should condens on it, leaving the air dry. Aleast in theory
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    Well, I figure everything would cool down when opening the roof. Winters will almost always have a period of less than -15C. I have posted this picture before, probably in a different thread.. However this is my rig after ~5 hours in ~(-10C). My obsy is 120 meters from a fjord leading to the north see, so it's also humid at times, and windy... Some insulation could not hurt, and it's also the cheapest priced material i bought My hands was hurting after carrying this inside! Glad I soon have a obsy
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    I see. Mine is 105cm W, 105cm L, and 96cm H (inside measure). The balcony fence is 96 cm tall and I wanted my scope above it when looking toward the horizon. I should have room fore some upgrades
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    It's a saturday special! Won't happen often
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    Looks like my dslr would extend as far as the filter wheel, but that the ccd only builds backwards and not much out from the center. I have my 50mm guide scope piggy backed with huge thumb screws. As thats the point with the largest radius, I do think I could hav fitted your FW and ccd to my rig
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