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  1. alacant
    Hi. 35mm. HTH.
  2. alacant
    You're making me feel guilty now! I focus once on a bright star at the start of the session and leave it there all night. Is expansion and contraction -that is what we're talking about I think (???)- enough to make a difference? Sorry, now I am off topic.... Cheers and clear skies anyway.
  3. alacant
    Hi. Have the camera oriented at 90º to the focuser. This way the galaxy fits across the diagonal. Don't know what camera you have but at 650mm, even an aps-c dslr can't fit in the whole galaxy. If you have the sw 0.9cc, things are a little better. HTH and good luck
  4. alacant
    Hi everyone. Just my occasional bump to ask if anyone has managed the switch yet. If you have, do tell your story. Cheers and clear skies.
  5. alacant
    It's fine. A good start and there's loadsa time left still this year:)
  6. alacant
    Yes, I wish. I've my eyes on a asi294. One day perhaps...
  7. alacant
    Hi everyone. I'd expected better for over 3 hours of light frames but at least you can see what it is:) Thanks for looking and any processing tips for this one most gratefully received. Canon 700d using 5 minute snaps
  8. alacant
    Ideal. Ubuntu, indi and ekos will install in seconds, blink and you'll miss Siril stacking and StarTools will fly. A one stop ap box:)
  9. alacant
    So, a few more attempts, but no one just yet. Plenty of time...
  10. alacant
    If there was a computer which was known to work when running indi under Linux and it came fully installed and ready to go (say it cost €50), would that remove the concern?
  11. alacant
    Three months on. Anyone got there yet? I get the feeling that unless you've struggled -and mastered- Linux on a daily basis for a long time, controlling your telescope and taking a photograph through it under indi is just not gonna happen. I'm still not sure why much of the advice goes that Linux should be installed on an old computer. AFAICT, that serves only to make an already insurmountable task impossible! Optimism...
  12. alacant
    Hi. We find Siril better. Have a look at this introduction. It's easy to use and a lot faster than deep sky stacker. HTH
  13. alacant
    Unfortunately the secondary spider with non adjustable 3 prong -fat- arms doesn't help either. I contacted them about a proper 4 vane spider and the possibility of adding the -superb- hexafoc focuser. Whilst they didn't say yes or no, they did offer an upgrade suggestion. If they could get it into production, it really would be IMO the better choice over the pds.
  14. alacant
    Yeah. I think mounts with eq in them are European versions.
  15. alacant
    Ah, OK. So it's really easy. Take a usb cable from the 294 to a computer usb3 port and one of these from another usb on the computer to the mount. HTH.
  16. alacant
    Hi. Yes. It does in a fraction of the time that which takes all night on my dslr and its noiseless by comparison; TBH, anything is better than a dslr so the 1600 maybe ok too it's just that the mono guys here seem to end up with incomplete colour images or ones where the stars are not aligned properly. I think there was a 1600 colour too but AFAICT has been superceded by the 294. Opinion based solely upon what I've seen others do. I'm by no means an expert.
  17. alacant
    Hi. I don't think we can help because we don't know what mount the OP has. But anyway, the 294 -my dream imager- as a guide camera? Wow!
  18. alacant
    The point is that it just works; someone has spent 10 minutes installing Linux and indi and then fixed it into a white box. It would takes months for normal users to get anywhere near that.
  19. alacant
    That must count as part way there, surely.
  20. alacant
    I've just sent it to you. Look here. Use a usb stick to copy it from wherever you are now to the ubuntu box... Here's another you'll need: firmware-b43-installer_019-2_all.deb and guess what you have to do... sudo dpkg -i firmware-b43-installer_019-2_all.deb Or just double click it.
  21. alacant
    Where you typed: lspci -vvnn | grep -A 9 Network type this instead: sudo apt install b43-fwcutter C'mon... You're nearly there. Crippling hardware notwithstanding... Here is the package you need. Try: sudo dpkg -i b43-fwcutter_019-2_i386.deb ** Where? How? What does it do? After that you'll discover you need firmware. Get back to us then and we'll supply more meningless nonsese to type......Yeah. Well on your way now! b43-fwcutter_019-2_i386.deb
  22. alacant
    Hey, you're not gonna believe this: Taken from here. It looks like this: It runs indi, but you'd never nor need to know. You connect your mount and camera(s) using your existing cables and velcro it to your telescope. Switch on and connect to it using your phone, tablet, Linux or dare I say it, Windows computer. Point and click until you understand it.
  23. alacant
    So, let's see. Has anyone managed to migrate from Windows to Linux -since June 27th.- yet? At the end of June, I followed this guide. That was my first step. Could someone have a go, tell me where they failed and what needs to be added to the guide? Note: Please give yourself a fighting chance. Use a proper laptop, not a cheap expert embedded system that needs expert knowledge to install. This task is difficult enough on adequate hardware, let alone having to fight that too!
  24. alacant
    And an indi module
  25. alacant
    LOL. Good aim. You should be able to easily write an indi module to do that;) Start by looking at the source for indi-eqmod. Inspiration indeed!
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