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    Just stumbled upon this thread while researching small observatories, exactly the design i had in mind. I was wondering if you could give a little update on how it is working now, is this kind of roof design still good? @Skipper Billy
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    This is good advice.. I've had some problems solving images very close to the meridian in another software package with both ASTAP and PS2 solvers. Letting the mount go 10 minutes past the meridian Solved it.
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    The weather certainly suggests so, but the price seems to be so steep, and the gear hosted is often very high end, making it inaccessible for a lot of people.
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    Wooof Adam. Images are looking great, that thing really sucks down photons. Can't wait to see your work when you are ready to do full color images.
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    Very cool pic!
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    Glad to hear it! I had one of those good nights last night too.. Aside from bad seeing which really affected my guiding everything just worked. First clear night for a long time.. I had been sick all weekend and really needed to sleep early, so i setup 3 sequences (rgb for Double bluster, luminance for Pleiades, and a little test run with Ha on Horsehead), hit start and went to bed. Woke up at 5.40 this morning to go down and see that everything had worked - even the meridian flip, mount was parked and ready for a run of flats and darkflats.
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    For anyone interrested, Stefan (the creator of NINA) did a presentation and demonstration of NINA on The Astro Imaging Channel the other day.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6LVduw-Zo8
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    Hi Emil, No you can't directly set a start and stop time. But when you set up your sequence NINA will tell you at which time it will finish, so you can plan ahead. You can also have NINA do several target after each other, automatically, by adding other sequences to the list. So you could set up a sequence for target 1 to image for 3 hours and then go to target 2 for 1 hour and then target 3 for 3 hours. If your setup is automated enough, it would do this without your input at all. You can configure offsets for each filter in NINA so you don't have to autofocus between each filter. It is under Options somewhere (sorry don't have access to a NINA Instance right now for screenshots..)
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    Hi, NINA is Windows only - everything is built on a windows platform currently. Maybe at a later date someone will look at crossplatform migration.. Warm camera can be enabled under Options -> Imaging: Platesolving error: Can be set under Options -> Platesolving: Yes this is in arcminutes, but you can use decimals - i believe i use 0.5 arcmin at 520mm, I guess you could work out the error in pixels if you wanted.. Alternatively when it does an automatic platesolve it shows the error in pixels for both RA and DEC. Sky atlas: It shows you how high an object is on the sky from your point of view, and i do believe you can filter them by how high they are in the sky.
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    Hi, There is a camera simulator that you can use, that either generates some random noise, or where you can load an existing image. You should be able to use that for testing platesolving by loading an existing image. remember to setup your platesolvers in the settings menu.
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    Not only is it pollution, it is also tacky.. 😔
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    Nice scope and the initial results look promising! I look forward to seeing your images with this little bad boy.
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    No. Windows only at this time.
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    Modded 600d before I went mono. It was pretty cheap to buy premodded and I still dig it out from time to time for comets, etc. Whatever you go for, I will say that modding it will be a massive improvement.
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    Well all peripherals such as wheels, focusers, etc. Are controlled by ASCOM so they should work. But Starlight Express is in fact not natively supported. It's hard to implement something like that without a test camera, and no developer had one, and SX didn't want to lend a developer one. 🙁 But it will work with ASCOM..
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    Hmm I don't know too much about SGP if I'm honest, having only tried it on one imaging session. But setting it up was quite a journey, and I'm an IT guy.. So I would say these from the top of my head: User Interface - In my opinion it is so much better and cleaner than both SGP and APT. Speed - It is quite fast and many things are done in parallel. I'm not 100% certain here, but here goes anyway - I think NINA has native support for more cameras than any other software out there. And as you already mentioned, it is free..
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    Very interesting (and confusing thread) 🙂 How would you go about resampling (is that the correct term) to a certain resolution in PixInsight? Example: Let's say I have an image shot at 1"/px and I want to target 1.8"/px because I feel like that is what my skies allow. How would I do that? Hope it's ok to ask in this discussion..
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    Hi Emil, I use a combination of TGVDenoise and MMT in PixInsight on the individual masters while they are linear, and before combining to RGB. Works quite well! Extensive masking is used - so TGVDenoise primarily targets high signal areas (bright) and MMT targets low signal areas (dark). Don't go too crazy while linear, the final noise reduction will be done after the image has been stretched, and I also use TGVDenoise there.
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    I haven't had a session in weeks, but I ran 16 without a hitch. I think the latest is fine too, they found the memory leak that was causing issues in the QHY native driver, and now you have to enable loading of those drivers in the options so it doesn't affect every non QHY user. For clarity - QHY are comming with a new driver really soon where it is fixed.
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    I don't have a v-curve either, more like a U, and with the new parabolic / hyperbolic fitting algorithms in the nightly releases it hits focus very well.
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    Does this lensing effect happen due to something on the sensor or is it the front glas?
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    I found that Starnet makes some pretty good starmasks, something i've always struggled with in PI. :)
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    Yeah that would be good, but it is a massive project to undertake I think. I do believe the next big thing comming is a rework of the sequencing funktionality and with it things like dome control and such.
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    Glad to hear you had a good time. I don't know what version you are using? But the later versions (1.9 and onward) are running the same autostretch routine as PixInsight, and in general that is the best implementation I have seen. In the 1.10 Nigtlies there has been a lot of work on the autofocus code, with a brandnew detection function (contrast based) and new parabolic and hyperbolic curvefitting functions as opposed to the classical v-curve functions. This is a great improvement to autofocus! BUT the 1.10 nightlies are a little volatile at the moment as there is a lot of new code being put in, so probably best to be on 1.9 or ask around which 1.10 nightly has been stable lately. My last imaging session was on 1.10.16 and that was stable enough for a fully automated night.
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    No you can just point it to the install directory of PS2 / ASTAP / ASPS / Etc.. Personally I use ASTAP for nearfield solving (it is the fastests solver I have tried) and ASPS for the rare blind solve.
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