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Likwid

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  1. Everything is working! I guess that is what happens when you are using multiple complicated pieces of software and assuming how they work lol. Thank you all for your help, i really appreciate it! Here is a quick and dirty mosaic from last night as a test.
  2. So I went on the NINA Discord channel today and sent my screenshots and everything else in. I think I know what is happening, and my rig is imaging right now. In Framing Assistant, when you hit "Slew and Center" I think it actually points to the center of the mosaic, not the Frame that you have selected. I was stopping there thinking that it was not working, and why waste more time if Frame Assistant couldn't even center my target? So when I spoke with the people on the Discord channel today, I put the coordinates into DSO-Browser and they were exactly centered on my mosaic. I think I figured it out from there. Just now I made a new sequence, put my 2 Frames into it and the first one seems to be slewing correctly. I have it on autopilot and in about 30 minutes, I will know if the second frame slews correctly and adds to the mosaic. I am hoping that I will be able to post a 1 hour mosaic of NGC 6992 and NGC 6960 tomorrow to show you all that it worked and that I am an impatient idiot lol.
  3. That is essentially what I am doing currently. I have been trying to do a mosaic, but let's say I type in NGC 6960 and bring it into the Frame Wizard. My rotation is parallel to NGC 6960 currently. Since there is a lot of interesting nebulosity between NGC 6960 and NGC 6992, I wanted to capture that in my frame the day I found out about this issue. I typed NGC 6960 into Sky Atlas, imported into Frame Assistant, determine rotation, and instead of centering NGC 6960, I wanted to move it to the "top" of the frame and have all the extra nebulosity "below" it to take up the whole frame. When I hit Slew and Center, it did a "successful" plate solve and NGC 6960 was cut off in the frame. This happens whether it is a mosaic that I am planning, or just messing around with the framing of a single image. Right after that, I just went straight from Sky Atlas to Simple Sequencer and did a plate solve there to center NGC 6960 and it was dead center of the frame. Honestly, if every single plate solve was off consistently in the same direction, I would say it is some weird thing with the mount coordinates or how NINA is talking to my mount. It's absolutely baffling that this in only happening when I use Frame Assistant, and it works flawlessly if I go straight to Sequencer with the default DSO coordinates. I will try to get some screenshots or a video tonight. The other thing is that I have an ASIAir Plus backordered. Maybe that will talk correctly to the mount if it ever ships lol. Are there any other free suites that will help plan a mosaic like NINA does? If it does the same thing in a different program, then it is definitely the mount. If it works fine in a different program, then it is NINA causing the issue.
  4. I am honestly completely baffled. Ok, this is exactly what I did last night: I changed to ASTAP and went into Sky Atlas to type in my target. In this case, I want to do a widefield view of NGC 6992 and NGC 6960, so I type NGC 6992. I click slew to get my telescope in the general area, so it can then figure out the rotation in the next step. I click Open in Framing Assistant, which brings me to the window and automatically loads the image of the region. I click Determine Rotation, and the preview box changes angle accordingly. I want to a mosaic, so I change Vertical Frames to 2 because of the current angle. I move the frame to center the entire Veil Nebula region as shown in my previous screenshot. I click Load Image again to center the mosaic in Framing Assistant. I click Slew and Center and it put NGC 6992 way into the upper right of the frame, half cut off. I think that I just didn't put the mount EXACTLY in the home position because I am human, and Plate Solving will correct that for me, because that is the point of it. Plate Solving does what it does and makes small adjustments to the mount and then says it is successful. I take look at the last image that was taken to determine if it actually framed correctly, and NGC 6992 is still in the upper corner of the screen, cut off. Based on how I framed it in the mosaic, it should almost be in the center of Frame 1. That is when I got frustrated, cleared the data in Sky Atlas and typed in M31. Clicked set as Simple Sequence, Slewed, went to the Imaging Tab and did a Plate Solve. M31 was perfectly centered as it should be, I started guiding and then I started taking 5 minute subs of M31 that were perfect. This is why it is so baffling. Single targets work flawlessly every time. Whenever I go into Framing Assistant and change anything about the framing, everything falls apart. It is supposed to be clear tonight again, so I will try to take a video or get screenshots of what is happening. This is so frustrating because I built this rig specifically to take mosaics. I want to essentially do a mini sky-survey and image the whole Milky Way. That is not going to happen if my mount can't figure out where it is pointed.
  5. So I am out tonight, and I tried using ASTAP with the same issue. It looks like the image is off just about the same as it was previously. I wasn't able to get any screenshots because I was working 2 different telescopes at the same time. I got frustrated and didn't want to waste another night fighting with the mount, so I am just imaging. Considering that both ASTAP and Astrometry are doing the same thing in the same way, it either has to be NINA or my mount causing the issue.
  6. Bubble Nebula in SHO. This is about 6 hours of data over 3 nights! 22 x 300s Ha 24 x 300s OIII 25 x 300s SII 6 x Darks 40 x Flats ASI294MM Pro at -15C ASI120MM Guide Camera Orion ED80 Imaging Scope Orion ST80 Guide Scope Orion Sirius Mount ZWO 5 Position EFW ZWO EAF QHY Polemaster Astronomik 1.25 12nm Ha, SII and OIII Filters
  7. Hello Everyone, I am trying to dip my toes in a little bit of Radio Astronomy and I figured a good starter project would be Meteor Scatter. I live in an area that is very cloudy, and I would to be able to learn some Radio Astronomy when I can't do Astrophotgraphy. I have been doing a lot of research in the past few days, and I am just looking to get an already built antenna. I don't mind building one, but when I am learning I would like to have a known working and tuned antenna to keep my learning curve down. For the most part, I am reading that people use 144 Mhz Yagi antennas for Meteor Detection. I was wondering if this would be a good starting point for an antenna, or if there is something else around this price point or a little more expensive that might be better? Thank you! https://hamcity.com/ham-equipment/antennas/base/beams-yagis/144-mhz/a144s5.html After further research, this may only apply to the UK. In the US, I will have to use FM.
  8. Actually, I just checked the offline program I was using and it was using "All Sky Plate Solver" and not ASTAP. When I was using All Sky before, it Plate Solved and tried to tell NINA where to go. NINA thought it was slewing but the motors wouldn't move at all. Then it would take the 10 seconds to settle, take another image which would be the exact position it was in before and go in an infinite loop. I went back to using Astrometry as my main Plate Solving source and it just worked great until I started playing with the Frame Assistant. I am installing ASTAP and the database on my imaging PC now, and I believe it will be clear on Friday so I will give it a whirl then! Thank you everyone!
  9. Oddly enough, when I use ASTAP for Plate Solving, NINA doesn't tell my mount to go anywhere. It thinks it is slewing, and then settles but doesn't actually move. That is actually why I started using Astrometry. Hopefully I will have some time after work today to hop on to the NINA Discord and talk with the developers about it. I'll make sure to update everyone after!
  10. NINA has a Discord server, so I may jump on there when I get home to see what they have to say about "Recenter Image". If I find out anything good, I will let everyone know. Thank you all so much for the help today, I appreciate it.
  11. That is exactly what I am wondering now as well.
  12. If you click on "Imaging" on the left, on the top row of icons, there is an option for Plate Solve. My normal workflow before I was using Framing Assistant was to add the target to the sequence, and then go into Imaging and Plate Solve so I could see the window better. I just got this screenshot from my imaging PC so you could see what I am talking about. It Plate Solves whatever you have selected in Sequencer.
  13. Yup! And it will center the frame for me in the window. I tried it with and without clicking "Load Image" after putting the frame where I want it with the same outcome. When I saw the thing about "Recenter Image" I figured that clicking Load Image would have the same effect.
  14. I tried both and they both do the same thing. When I send to Sequencer, it brings up Frame 1 and Frame 2 with different coordinates. When I Plate Solve through Imaging on either Frame 1 or Frame 2, it puts the target off the frame, but then says Plate Solving was successful. When I Slew and Center in Frame Assistant with either frame selected, it puts the target off the frame but finishes "successfully" still. Whatever is happening is specific to the Framing Assistant. When I bypass it and just go from Sky Atlas to Sequencer, it Plate Solves and centers the target perfectly. I am really at a loss. The only thing I see different that I am doing from tutorials or the actual manual, is not hitting "Recenter Image" at the end because that target does not exist on my version of NINA.
  15. One thing I just noticed in both the online tutorial, as well as the couple YouTube videos that I have watched, is that they all say I have to hit the "Recenter Image" button once I have my target framed correctly. If you look at my screenshot, I do not have that button in my Framing Assistant. I also just updated my software and it is still missing. I wonder if it is not sending the coordinates correctly because it isn't "centered".
  16. Correct, but according to Frame Assistant, I placed NGC 6992 essentially in the middle of Frame 1, and NGC 6960 in the bottom of Frame 2 for the mosaic to show both objects. In the Plate Solve image, NGC 6992 is cut off half way in the top right side of the image.
  17. I know it is, I shot 18 x 5 minute subs on that same rig directly after my issue last night I have tried HIPS 2, NASA, SkyServer, and ESO I think. I am using Astrometry.net for Plate Solving.
  18. Yup! When I go straight to setting a Simple Sequence from Sky Atlas everything is great and everything Plate Solves and centers perfectly. If I set it for Framing Assist and move the target in the Frame, then Slew and Center, everything is misaligned.
  19. Normally I would agree as well, but this is only happening when I use the Framing Assistant. Directly after the issue I had last night, I cleared out Sky Atlas, typed NGC 6992 back in it, hit Add Target to Sequence, plate solved and it was centered in the frame. When I don't use Framing Assistant at all, everything works great and my targets are centered. When I use Framing Assistant, everything is misaligned.
  20. Ok, I found my submissions on Astrometry.net from last night. This is the successful Plate Solve image for NGC 6992, along with a screenshot of what I had in Framing Assistant. Where I have NGC 6992 in Framing Assistant is far from where it ended up in the "Successful" plate solve. Also, since Astrometry marked the image correctly, it knows exactly what it is looking at. All the noise aside, there are perfectly round stars in the image. I should say that the screenshot from NINA is not from last night, I put in the approximate rotation that NINA determined from last night to show as close as I could to what I was framing it as last night.
  21. This same thing happens whether I use 1 frame or multiple. If I just type NGC 6992 into Sky Atlas, set as Simple Sequence and Plate Solve from there, it centers it perfectly every time. If I go into Frame Assistant and change anything about the framing, it puts the target on the edge of the frame and cuts part of it off. What I am seeing in Frame Assistant is not close to what NINA thinks is a successful Plate Solve. This makes me think there is something wrong with the Frame Assistant and not my hardware or drivers. I will try to get screenshots or video this weekend showing what I am seeing. It is hard to explain via text. I was trying to see if I could find my plate solve images from last night on Astrometry but I couldn't find them.
  22. I should be able to do that. I won't have another clear night until this weekend so I won't be able to do it until then.
  23. And that is why it is so frustrating lol. I have wasted 2 or 3 clear nights trying to figure this out. I am sure it is something really small that I am missing!
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