Giampiero Baggi

Hi everyone! I'm asking for a friend of mine who's been having problems with his guide camera connection to the pc. Apparently, the camera feed to the pc lags, therefore the guide pulses are delayed. This was very evident while creating the dark library for PHD2. The camera appeard to work perfectly fine with other capture softwares though, If anyone got the same problem, and managed to solve it, i woukd be glad to hear your tips!

Good evening stargazers! I'm having some troubles connecting my HEQ5 to my PC... I recently bought an ethernet to USB adapter, the usual RJ45-USB, and i was hoping it would work to connect my mount to the ASCOM platform, just as it did for my NEQ6. Unfortunately, though, my PC recognizes the RJ45-converter-USB assembly simply as a "network card", so the ASCOM toolbox doesn't recognize it as a COM port. I basically connected the controller handset cable (RJ45) to the adapter, the adapter to a USB extension and the extension to the computer...Is there any way i can still connect the mount to the PC using this same adapter? Also, my PC has a RJ45 port, can i connect the mount directly to it?

I was very, VERY young when i took my first ever DS photo. I borrowed a DSLR from my uncle along with some lenses and shot some long exposures of the milky way. I realized that there was something blurry on one side, so i decided to focus on that area and get some "closer" photos. I later found out that the smudge i was photographing was the andromeda galaxy (and this is the story of how i discovered DSOs as a newbie). I stopped doing "serious" AP for about a year, and now that i have a lot more knowledge i'm starting this wonderful hobby again! Here are my 2 first photos! (you can see the spots on the sensor, the camera i used when i first started was very old :P). For the milky way I did 9x20sec exposures, and for andromeda I don't really remember. Both taken from Viticuso,Italy.