fozzybear

depends on the quality of the cable manufacture. I tend to stick with Startech.com or lindy.co.uk what brand is the 25cm one? I have a qhy5-II mono and use a startech short usb cable and no problems.

I use one of these left over from my Amateur radio days and serves me fine with various outputs

Red skies here all day and a coating on my car even the rain when it came down early afternoon was "dirty" as mentioned on radio 1 on my way home from work.

I've had also an Acrylic dome and heater for my Allsky cam from them as well

you can also give them a ring so friendly I spoke to Tim

I have a couple from them and work perfectly fine.

I am so impressed with this book great detail and the layout

The last one was Jan 2022 maybe you did a typo there and yes when are they to air their next episode as looked on the beeb website for bbc4 "no upcoming events"

Whats your budget and where do you want to be in say 12 months time. Paramount is the Mount that is the Crux.... Eq3 ok to start out with but you will outgrow it soon and want better as you maybe disappointed as for AP best to start out with a HEQ5 new 950 quid or search/post looking S/H Andy

Hello and welcome to SGL

https://www.dewcontrol.com/Dew_Heater_Straps_-_All_Sizes/p3099125_14674363.aspx they can also alter the length the cable you require

No just found Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects for 13 quid so on the way to a friend in the UK albeit wont get it till Easter as seller would not post to France

Motor direction of motion is correct? Move Declination a little (10 or 20 deg.) left and right of the home position (NCP/SCP) and watching from behind the mount see if the telescope movement matches the screen. Reverse Axis2 if it goes the wrong way. Once that is working do a goto to a point half way up in the sky but not too far in home position (40 degrees away or so.) If it points down toward the ground RA needs to be reversed. you have setup NINA with correct co-ordinates for your location and the time is correct

Make sure the dynamic libraries cache is updated: sudo ldconfig -v If you are getting output similar to this when running your app: [INFO ] GL: OpenGL vendor <b'VMware, Inc.'> [INFO ] GL: OpenGL renderer <b'llvmpipe (LLVM 9.0.1, 128 bits)'> Then it means that the renderer is NOT hardware accelerated. This can be fixed by adding your user to the render group: sudo adduser "$USER" render You will then see an output similar to this: [INFO ] GL: OpenGL vendor <b'Broadcom'> [INFO ] GL: OpenGL renderer <b'V3D 4.2'> maybe above might resolve your problem worth a try

Well this turned up today a first edition in mint condition now on the hunt for for the second book

https://kivy.org/doc/stable/installation/installation-rpi.html#install-source-rpi sudo apt update sudo apt install pkg-config libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev \ libgstreamer1.0-dev \ gstreamer1.0-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly} \ gstreamer1.0-{omx,alsa} libmtdev-dev \ xclip xsel libjpeg-dev sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev Finally, you need to add this to your .profile file in your home directory PATH="/home/astroberry/.local/bin:$PATH"

Hi are you running the RPI3 headless or with a monitor attached? Also have a read of this thread

great job done there in the resurrection

Now that is a beast

I've only gone and placed and order for the first book "deep sky messier objects" for a tenner a slippery slope

snaffled a couple of great info from your site thanks

lets hope he can resolve this for you

Don't know answer to that maybe ask George and fire off the mov file to him on onstep to have a look, as to me something is not central could be the coupler at fault "tolerance" and the 5mm rod is a snug fit before tightening the grub screws on the coupler unless there is play in the worm gear on the RA axis ie not parallel on the mount?

you answered that yourself i think as you quoted " I can't mount the gear directly to the RA shaft as it won't clear the locking handle" On the Dec yes? So you need clearance as you have the RA gear with the grub screw section facing outwards as opposed to facing inwards

is the steel rod that's attached to the coupling (is is a ridgid one or a flexible coupling) is the rod keyed (ie a flat on it) or cylindrical. if cylindrical and on the coupling there are 2 grub screws the rod might not be centralised if you understand. And throw it of balance ideally you would mount the large gear directly onto the RA shaft can you not turn the RA gear the other way round of does this provide enough room to attach the belt? also on the motor rotate the pinion gear as well