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Can you ssh into the asiair and look at the filesystem , see if there is an indi catalogue and what the indi catalogue says ?

If you are convinced it's XML what's the odds that it is indi ? And that's well documented .. It would be quick to knock up a test.

I'm really interested what the actuators are, linear servos ? Also how the stack is clamped once adjusted or is it sufficiently stiff once adjusted it doesn't need clamping ? Finally, this is normally a 'once and done 'operation, what's the argument for making it easy to repeat but expensive and heavy?

I use cartes de ciel all the time on windows. Less faff than others. Also does orbital offsets with phd2 to track comets. Also have ccd de ciel for when I want to run three cameras in spectroscopy mode.

Have you confirmed that the absence of the shard has made any difference at all ? On one hand it could cause a relaxing if surface tension which will change the figure, on the other it's a small mirror, have you tried a NY sort of test of figure?

That's a nice setup. Clearly need some larger scopes.

I run at 2000mm on a lodestar 8um pixels binned X2 using an oag. Typical exposures 2.5 secs and guiding .5" Sometimes it's hard to find a star but rarely.

Hi all, Ben trying to use my RC12 for Jupiter imaging but reverted to the refractor. This is my Vixen NA140SSF at f/22 with ASI178 and lrgb filter set. Captured with Firecap, stacked in AS3 and sharpened in Maxim.

Not happy with this statement I looked it up, this explanation chimes with my thoughts but that doesn't mean it is used correctly in material Olly is reading. I would expect a methodology to describe the approach to selecting a method amongst several and describe how the selected method is applied. https://www.scribbr.co.uk/faqs/method-vs-methodology/

Ditto to that. The cam lever shown was the clutch to pivot the motor that originally hung off that large protruding bolt and was held against the gear wheel by a spring , the cam lever rotated the motor drive pinion off the gear wheel to declutch.

Cool. My thoughts right now are about 30" length each side in a square, about 30" tall with a roof sloping up to the north that rolls and slides down the north side out of the way in use. Power is whatever is needed, mine is distributed on the scope itself by an alpaca or usb device. Maybe the Christmas project...

Have you a link ? I read an article in this but don't have it available any more. Since the moon will be old and the radiant is high it could be a very good but also quite faint shower sue to the slow speeds

What are your basic requirements for this ? I'd like to compare with mine.. I want a small obbo I can use around my portable rig when I'm at home, so it only needs to be as big as the parked scope with a slide off automated roof. Is that what you are aiming at ?

Fair enough but my experience so far is that those slo Mo's slip quite easily due to the small end diameter of the stalk and so it's easier and just as effective to drive off the main dial. You are still getting more than 200 steps per output rev of the dial.

Ki did much the same except I took off the pinion cover and used those four screws to hold the focuser motor bracket. I think you may get bending of the relatively thin bracket under load. I'm driving a qhy9 and 7x2" filter wheel though.

Find a second hand lodestar, large pixels, rock solid. Highly sensitive.

Wilko sticky backed velour ?

Power line adapters work well in my situation . I have gigabit ports on mine and they report throughput of 600mbps but if you can't fill the pipe, then you will get less. If you have a noisy segment , you will get less. If you branch into WiFi, you will get much less. So use appropriately. My connection to the obbo over 30m power line is 10mbps which is plenty for video over esp and reasonable large file transfer but uses a 100mb unit at the obbo. If I replaced it with gb powerline I'm sure it would be much faster.

It's cos one of the things that is running , presumably driven by SGP, is an ASCOM driver in executable rather than DLL form. It's benign but annoying. The expectation is that the DLL is used by preference and registered under ASCOM using regserver rather than the exe.

I have and it does leak in hence remotely turn it on and off as needed rather than leave it on.

Also try here http://basebe.obspm.fr/basebe/

Check the spectroscopy groups.io group, there's a team looking at them there from a list. I don't seem to be able to add it from my phone

I like the idea of 'ammeter asteonomers', seems like we're in the lab.

You can find wifi storage cards which will do what you want, they are a bit old hat nowadays.

All of the above, it's up to you. You can store locally on the emmc disk, but not recommended You can store locally on a SSD if you install one. You can store locally on the SD card if you install one. I'd prefer to setup a FileShare where you save the image files to on the Mele and then connect to that from your laptop or desktop and use something like xcopy to monitor and copy anything saved.