skybadger

This is nuts ! i can think of no reason why this would be the resolution and I've been an it person for quite a while now.. Maybe something else also got flipped while setting it up but... This confuses me very much. Anyone got an explanation ?

I'm not too far away, could face and bore it.

I've done this myself but I dont recall needing to do anything more than to take those grubs out and unscrew it. I think it's the grub screws that have ripped into the threads that you are hitting.

that would be my point too. why would ASTAP be quicker than astrometry if ASTAP has a dependency on astrometry ? Also why would ASTAP fail and astrometry succeed if they are using the same source data files ? That hints at the wrong config settings. Maybe too many stars for small scopes/focal lengths.

I worked out how... Ta.

I would disconnect the connection to the home WiFi by disabling the WiFi adapter. What happens then? I expect the wire lan connection to the portable router to come up. On the one hand you should be able to connect to both networks at once, maybe you need an explicit setting somewhere to enable that.

Hmm struggling to read .rtf files on my phone.

Thanks KP82. I deleted astrometry.net from my Win pc because it was so slow compared to astap and then found that astap had a dependency on it locally. I use it for between 1800mm and 1200mm focal lengths. What are you using to pole align that can use the rpi pictures ?

Can we hear more ? Like, what app is doing the solving, how much it impacts the rpi, what the sensitivity is like, why you use a button , the process to tell astroberry where the solution is currently pointing, how you manage or check for differential flexure, etc. There's a couple of solutions for this ( auto alignment Vs guiding) and auto alignment could be continuous vs guiding which occurs during imaging. My perfect solution has an auto alignment scope and oag guider.

I have several thoughts. Does enabling the wireless on the nuc disable the wired connection and vice versa? Does the router prevent client to client network traffic. There's typically a tick box on the router for this If the nuc can't see the 'internet', for a given definition of internet, windows can report no connection and work anyway. I have that when using a corporate vpn. Is there a DHCP, DNS and gateway identified for both the WiFi and wired connection properties ? If there isn't a DHCP, DNS or gateway, define the nic as being its own gateway, with its own DNS and set to static IP. Is the IP address of the nuc on the same network as the router ? I think we need more info on the current setup to diagnose this further.

Im using this setting from edit->setup ->all configuration options->internet->orbital elements and its working fine My version is 4.3 b4112

I found that the red led washes out the view quite a bit and that it was more useful on a newt than a RC. I'm guessing R is rosso. But until now never thought about it. I shall now always notice it.

Full your boots with my alpaca driver at github/Skybadger/filterwheel which is Arduino compliant but written for esp8266. Or lookup rob browns code for filterwheels and focusers also in github. You should find something there to do the job.

I had to read this carefully before I understood this to mean the eye relief of the Vixens. I find them ok. You do need to get close but that's ok for me. The optics, the usability and the views seem fairly balanced.i didn't pay a lot for them though so I wasn't expecting too much.

heres my toy. Christmas prezzie after seeing it on here but manfrotto counterweight addition since the built in 2kg weights just weren't enough for the 20x80s, even on shortest arm extension

That's a lot of hard work gone into that and it comes out looking a lot like my atik11000. Very nice. Water cooling is a risky business from my experience, again with the 11000. There's no real reason you can't get good low temperatures but you'll need to size the tec unit appropriately and raise the ccd on a socket to get sufficient clearance for the tec and good conductivity via a heat pipe to the case for cooling. Getting a good thermal sink to the hotside block is the key. I have some spare PCBs for the original format cam86 if anyone wants any but they are cheap enough for a set of 10 from the web.

I have one PCB mostly assembled on the bench but had to unsolder the surface mount chips to try to find a power bug which caused the 15v line to disappear. Still Haven't found it. My approach is to make up a second board and see if the same thing happens now that I'm better at soldering. Have a handful of d70 chips to desolder and separate. Mostly lacking time to do all this as well as other projects.

Tilt will cause the vanes to go out of focus and thus broaden but not to split. I think that would take a significant tilt of several degrees though.

Some references: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47718414_Diffraction_effects_of_telescope_secondary_mirror_spiders_on_various_image-quality_criteria&ved=2ahUKEwjO262O6JL8AhUVg1wKHRMWCuMQFnoECBIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3dTg6XO6Ke3bmkisGpvRLZ https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/495707-spider-and-secondary-diffraction-what-to-do-what-to-avoid/ Apodising masks: https://www.cloudynights.com/RMF51116.pdf More CN: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/491137-how-to-minimize-spider-vane-spikes/page-3#entry6513473 Hth

There's a much deeper investigation on CN that compares a while range of spider types including different curves and numbers of arms. Also Suiter takes look at this too. I used steel belting on my first spider on the 12" and then have built a wire spider for my next. The steel works fine under tension. That one is 0.5mm thick and free. However I have learnt that it doesn't matter if the limbs are offset from each other, they just need to be in the same alignment to prevent extra spikes being introduced.

Astrobuysell is read in Europe.

You are also assuming or requiring a very low read noise per pixel and almost zero dark current in order to get the stacking benefits and desired signal to noise ratio in realistic timescales. Fortunately this is possible from modern CMOS cameras now.

Vlaiv, the last para is all about the type of AI that is trained to be able to write the articles you are referring to. The training is not in the content but in the mechanism of producing content.

That depends on your purpose. Medical imaging builds data sets used for training. That doesn't take centuries. It takes days to weeks to months and it gets built and maintained as part of the overhead of maintaining the Ai. Nothing of quality is for free. captcha imaging ai gets you to do the work of image analysis for it. Amazon and azure provide massive data sets and pre-trained ML sets for image recognition, image to text conversion, language translation etc. They are managed and sold as such. ethical issues and bias need to be checked as traits in the data and in testing before release. Both are good examples of data filtered by researchers unconsciously which when trained provide poor conclusions. the ais we were discussing originally take syntax and grammar from language rulesets as training materials and assemble snippets from other online data feeds rather than using the data feed as a raw source of training material.

I'm not sure I agree with the last statement. The AIs I am familiar with are very carefully trained on the highest quality data the owner can find and also double checked for ethical and bias effects. That doesn't say anything about media generation AIs but why would they not point to a selection of native language online encyclopaedia as training sources rather than the general internet that they know rather a lot about the average quality and know it leads to reducing revenue. Unless you're a red top and generate pap all the time because there is no come back. Tomorrow's beast from the east forecast in the Daily Express is a great repeated example of pure tosh.