AstroMuni

That answers my question 🙂 The .info docs are outputs of dss. Its not needed as input by DSS when you attempt to stack again. Hope this helps

Let me give you a third option 🙂 Use the GUI interface of Sirilic. It does all the magic of creating the script and running thro Siril. https://siril.org/docs/sirilic/

Hi Albir, it would help if you posted details of the software that you use, your kit and how its configured and the particular situation(s) in which this happens. 🙂

You could use browser/VNC on ipad or phone 😉 I agree its not as user friendly as custom UI of ASIAir

Here is an alternate solution which I use. I run teamviewer on the laptop and use my mobile to connect to it. This way I can stand next to the scope and twiddle focus while watching display on laptop. EDIT: I also used a long FTDI cable to connect the mount to the laptop. So had 2 long cables running from inside the house to scope. Consider learning software such as NINA or Cartes du Ciel etc. as these will help you control mount, camera platesolve etc. Once you do platesolving then n-star alignment will be a thing of the past 🙂 And tip on imaging M42. Try using smaller exposures upto 30s to prevent over saturating the central part of the nebula.

In that case, I would suggest that you use Starsense to go the nearest star that is named in Google sky/NASA and then manually move the scope until the 'named star' is in FOV.

You could post your unprocessed FITS file here (just after stacking) and others can show you what they can get out of it. Thats what I tend to do when in doubt if there is more in my image.

A great shot. Welcome to the dark side 🙂 What software did you use to process the images?

Thats sad. Can you hear the motor working when you command it to move?

If you can post the details of the star here, one of us could take a screenshot of the skymap and send to you.

And I suspect its also a bit down to the way its taught too... the connections between subjects and the linkage is not always made clear in simple terms. Some teachers tend to do that and make the subject 'enjoyable'. Another challenge is probably due to the way exam papers are written. eg. If you were asked to apply a certain physics principle in maths would it be considered out of syllabus? The other way around is probably more acceptable 🙂 So if the student was aware that they could be called upon to exercise the 'physics' part of their knowledge in a different paper then they would use associative memory rather than think about it as - its a certain paper hence I know the kind of questions in scope. Food for thought!

You are correct..Its a chicken and egg situation. If at an early age you knew exactly what you wanted to be in later life then you could be provided a specialised set of courses. But at the moment we are taught a broad range of skills so we have options to pick & choose and in later stages of the education process (including during work) to specialize.

I think its partly down to the perceptions - i.e do I need this info for the test/exam. Many students (and sadly a few parents too, believe that students are being taught stuff thats irrelevant in later life). 😞

Good work. Point it at Jupiter which is not too far from the moon at the moment and check what you can see. Use a planetarium software like Stellarium to tell you where to look OR use a skymap app on your phone such as Skychart/Skeye

Do you live in a city or have access to relatively less light polluted skies? It would also be good to know your background so we know how technical an answer is acceptable. 🙂 EDIT: Meanwhile read this https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/make-a-small-refractor-telescope And

Hi, Welcome to SGL. We will need more info on what you are trying to build this for etc. Do you have the lenses already? Or are you still at design stage. Just a quick observation - 500cm FL is quite long (5m) ! Is this correct?

Can you not search for the star in the list provided on the app?

Have you tried posting your problem on the INDI forum? https://indilib.org/forum/index.html Have you tried starting the Indiserver at the command line? or by using the web manager https://github.com/rlancaste/INDIWebManagerApp

Wow. Your mosaics collection is growing Dave 🙂

And this comment is from a Wookiee 😉 LOL

Kstars can integrate with ASTAP as well. By default it comes with its own platesolver.

I dont use Stellarium but can certainly think of ways you could do this using Kstars/Ekos. - Configure Ekos to use the simulators. - Load your image into the Align module and ask it to Load & Slew - The simulator FOV will move across the skymap and you will be able to see where exactly you are pointed If you choose to use this software, INDI server works on Mac/Linux/RPi and that is needed to run the simulators. I am sure other Windows based software have similar options. Good luck 🙂 EDIT: You will get a view like this in Kstars

The main reason we use platesolve is to align our mounts to the exact location that we are interested in capturing. In a nutshell, we find a target in a Skymap program, the coords are sent to the mount to slew to, an image is captured and sent to platesolver which gives a set of coords (which could be slightly differenet to the ones we asked for). This is then fed back to the mount to correct itself. This negotiating role is done by the likes of NINA/Kstars etc. So just using Stellarium & ASTAP to deal with platesolving isnt making sense (in my head). Perhaps you can explain your challenge in detail. 🙂

You will always end up with a couple of dust motes so best approach is take flats which are used during the processing part to remove the dust motes. BTW, you can use this tool to figure out how far the dust is from your sensor https://astronomy.tools/calculators/dust_reflection_calculator

Lightning perhaps?