I'll also add Steve that on BYA I never mentioned you by name or any indication as to who you were, you did that yourself.

I'm not getting into a slagging match Steve, I believe you were economical with the truth, Indeed I acknowledged there were problems with the shutter and accepted that I needed to work on that, but I was never told of the totally rotten rubber dampers which had a major contribution to the banging noises which you did acknowledge after I pointed it out, The arduino board was hanging by a bit of velcro and the banging vibration caused frequent disconnections. The faded peeling treatment you applied would not come off indicating some other treatment other than just polytrol. I replaced the cambelt in order to try and resolve the banging.

I acknowledged that I bought a second-hand pulsar dome and I had no further recourse to you, but I was very disappointed concerning the faults with the dome.

And Image of the day on Astrobin Peter https://www.astrobin.com/a77z7d/😎

Sadly I missed the beginning but excellent thank-you Steve.

On 02/11/2019 at 16:59, tomato said:

Some further additions, first a Steampunk inspired drain pipe for the dehumidifier, second, a set of 4 LED lights for standard illumination inside the dome, and thirdly an intercom so the telescope  technician  can talk to the imager in the warm room. This may seem a bit OTT, but better than shouting to each other at 2 a.m. which could be considered a bit anti-social. @Tomatobro picked this up (new) for £5 on eBay.

 

Hi @tomato, it has taken me ages to find you post about the dehumidifier exit, I'm not plumber so can you advise what bits I need to create a similar exit from the dehumidifier, also where did you get the flexible clear tubing from?

Many Thanks.

23 minutes ago, banjaxed said:

https://news.sky.com/story/rust-discovered-on-the-moon-and-earth-could-be-responsible-12062444

Just came across this, I don’t think it has been posted but it’s an interesting read.

Page not found

All done check your PM's

I have a number of CEM60 Firmwares as below: -

CEM60_RA_20170505.bin
CEM60_DEC_20161101.bin
CEM60_Mainboard_20161101.bin

Let me know which one you want and I'll send it to you

51 minutes ago, steppenwolf said:

OK, 'Bias' = BIOS - now I see what you are asking ....... Yes I had to enable WOL in BIOS although in my case, this was already enabled.

Sorry Steve typo 👍, thanks

6 hours ago, steppenwolf said:

I just had to insert the Mac and IP addresses of the observatory PC so that the 'Magic Packet' knew where to go. You can get these two pieces of information either from you Internet Hub or by dropping to command level (cmd) and typing  ipconfig /all  The Mac Address is called the 'Physical Address'.

Brilliant thanks Steve, yes I know where the Mac address is, did you need to enable wakeup in LAN in the Bias?

On 13/08/2020 at 09:06, steppenwolf said:

I wouldn't bother jumping through the hoops, I did this TWICE and on the third time told them to stick it!

I now use SolarWinds to wake up my PC and either AnyDesk or Remote Desktop (All three are free) and have a very stable system.

Now funny how that was exactly what I was looking for Steve, I've downloaded it and will have a play as I am hoping once the new dome is up, to rarely have to visit inside, did you just have to set up the Bias to wake up LAN?

I've been using Tight VNC on all my workstations in the office and around the home, no restrictions and it works on my PC, Laptop iPad and iPhone, connects via our DNS names or IP addresses farmed out by the server, and its free

https://www.tightvnc.com/licensing.php?f=vc

1 hour ago, david_taurus83 said:

Does TightVNC need an Internet connection?

Hi Dave, I have never tried it without an internet connection. I can't check now as my Obsy has been dismantled, but I will check when I have it all back up and running.

I use Tight VNC on my workstation and I use the app on my iPhone, it has worked perfectly for years now.

I’m hoping that with new dome that I won’t need to go in the dome at all once I have worked out how to switch the pc on remotely.

Similar to Kinch I have a Foscam, but switch off the IR during imaging 

44 minutes ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Oh goodness, it'll be all worth it in the long run though. You'll be all ready for the dark evening's. Least you'll have the guy's from pulsar sorting out the dome build. 

Thanks Nigella,

I could build it fine, but it worked out better on my back to let them do it.

Don’t want to go fighting any more tigers🙄🥴😁

Well today, I am absolutely shattered, I have had to remove everything that was bolted, screwed, soldered, channelled and glued etc. inside the dome so that it is bare, then thinking it would only take a couple of mins to get the matting up....how wrong was I? I started to get it up at 15:00 and have only just finished, it was very much akin to fighting a whacking great big tiger who's rear end had been superglued to the floor and you spotted a sixpence under it that you wanted!!!! My God what a fight to get it up!🤬

The original matting being previously used didn't stick that well, so when I changed it for new stuff, I really did give the spray can a really good dose of contact adhesive!

So I have my lads coming round tomorrow to lift the dome off and help me separate everything, ready for Bob collecting on Tuesday.

Pulsar say that they are aiming for the 21st September to deliver my replacement, so I have plenty of time to get the isolation sorted on the pier and rebuild all the electrics so that I can just screw them in. I plan to use NoNails to fix the battening up for the panel, hopefully that will hold things fine.

4 hours ago, Midnight_lightning said:

I'm tempted to say the Chroma guys would say that given they don't make a 3nm but maybe that's a bit unfair -

Hmm, I own 2" Unmounted 3nm Chromas which are certified at 3nm so not sure where you heard that?

44 minutes ago, JamesF said:

Wouldn't that require quite clean separation of the colours in the colour filter array?  A lot of cameras seem to have a certain amount of crossover between colours (so red and green might still be sensitive to some blue, for instance).

James

Yep James, I've not tried in PI apart from pulling a Lum.

2 hours ago, kirkster501 said:

....and he is starting to collect his RGB with OSC now and adds the luminance from a mono camera.

Indeed that would be a time saving option, just one thing though, with OSC how would you compensate for G2V which I have found very useful.

The only way I can see is to split the channels in PI then weight them accordingly in PixelMath?

3 hours ago, vlaiv said:

I'm after some info on what people work with in their observatories.

Need info on used pier height and obsy space.

Will it be enough to have 2m x 2m deck for mostly imaging with "regular" sized scopes? Also, what sort of height should I go for with ROR deck?

Here is a bit more detail:

I have 3m x 5m allowance for auxiliary building - this is ground coverage. It needs to be max 3.6m tall - so it is just single level small shed type of building. I want to do some sort of gallery in it that will be deck for scope. I would also like to have space under gallery utilized as a storage or similar - and not wasted.

In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, will 1.8m x 1.8m be enough? What about minimum pier height if I want to observe (while seated)?

Hi Vlaiv,

I've attached the pier drawings of my pier, the top part was designed to accept a Altair Astro Pier adapter, but it could be any adapter as long as it is drilled correctly.

HTH

JK-Model.pdf JK Pier Drawing.pdf

2 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

Hi John, thanks!  I calibrated the data in APP.  I dunno, I didnt take an Ha data, but I can see a few red spots in the image.  I didnt intentionally try to emphasise the red but I guess that could be easily addressed.

Hi Adam, I only say it as my mate did it and I remember how much Ha he pulled out of it: -

https://www.astrobin.com/370427/D/

But yours is truly a wonderful image

Lovely image Adam, superbly processed, just a small comment...where's the Ha as there is usually loads in M33?

12 hours ago, carastro said:

Depressing thought if mono cameras are going to disappear.  I have no desire to use OSC even with fancy filters.

Carole 

I agree Carole, but not for now, I won’t say never, but I’m still exploring with mono CCD maybe on a travel rig it may have benefits, but I feel a long way to go yet.

When I saw that I thought...chilliscope or deepskywest, I was delighted to see that you captured this from your own backyard.

It is an absolute pleasure to see the perseverance that you have poured into this image.

Well done.

Indeed I was surprised that they had discontinued the Starmask, yet when I have just checked Starmask is still available as is DBE, which I would be lost without.

I suppose that will be yet another update and reinstall 🤬, so as a precaution I have copied the entire script directory and if anything goes missing in future at least I can still install them.

It really surprises me that although Juan has seen my post he will not reply and get into discussions as to why he takes this stance!

1 hour ago, geeklee said:

As well as a few items marked obsolete, some solid updates in there, including StarNet as a core process.

I have yet to have a play properly Lee, I had Starnet already installed and use it, so including it was a good move, I understand people with Macs and Linus may have had a problem.