Richard Wesson

I have been searching online for this and does not appear anywhere as a sepearte irem - the results all give SW Quattro Scopes, SW crayford focusers and the TS Optics monorail.

Well, have gone for it and ordered the Player One Uranus which only took a week to arrive! Coming from a DSLR, and being a newbie to asto cams (except for guiding) I am curious as to why you have chosen a gain of 400 as I thought lowest noise etc was at gain 180? Thanks.

Thanks for that. No plans whatsoever to use ASIAIR! Don't like the idea of being tied to one brand of hardware - find a mini pc run headless does the job well enough.

I am considering buying one of hese cameras. However, I am not sure whether to go for the ZWO offering or the Player One model. The latter boasts 'passive cooling', but I wondered if this really was a significant factor and offered better temeprature control than the ZWO offering. The pros for the ZWO are potentially lower price, and of course easier customer service as would be buying from a UK retailer! Any thoughts would be appreciated.

The problem with a DSLR with that scope (like many newtonians), is that there will not be sufficient inward focus for a DSLR.

As suggested by StevieDVD here is a summary of my issue and the solution. The issue: TP-link tl-wr802n portable router was used in access mode to create a wifi network without internet connection. This had previously been used with a mini-pc (ACE-PC AK2). I could then access the mini-pc in headless mode using RDP or Teamviewer, with the connection between portable router and mini pc using LAN. I purposely wanted access without innternet connectivity to be able to use it at remote sites. However, when I attempted this with a recently purchased second hand NUC (NUC513 MYHE), the NUC did not connect properly over LAN showing NO NETWORK. LAN was working as evidenced by ability to access log in page of router and ability to connect to home router which was connected to internet. My solution Ensure that Remote Desktop is enabled Connect wirelessly from the NUC to the portable router. Doing the latter now shows the NUC as connected to the portable router via LAN and it is possible to connect to the NUC using RDP via the network created by the poetable router without an internet connection necessary.

No problem at all. I have reinstalled windows as their seem to be an issue with credentials singing in via RDP - it kept telling me password not recognised and showing login as 'other user'. I am now pleased to say that I can now control the NUC from laptop via the mini-router with no internet connectivity required. Thank you everybody for your help!

The NUC has the teamviewer app install - that is why I cam connect via teamviwer over my home WiFi as stated before. I installed teamviewer myself on all machines. I do not let other people install software for me, especially not somebody who has contacted me online....

I was connecting using teamviewer not rdp. Have not been able to get teamviewer to connect via the mini-router to the NUC, although it will to the old minipc. I suspecct something is borked in the iniitial set up so am going to star afresh.

Yes - have reset the password on the NUC, but still dont seem to be able to log-in. I am thinking I am going to completely reinstall windows and set up the machine again. I may go back to using my old mini-pc. I had this idea that the NUC may be more efficient/faster etc but that does not seem to be the case.

The laptop can see the NUC yes. I think I may be close to solving this. As suggested by Steviedvd, I connected the NUC aand the laptop to the wifi of the mini router. Suddently, the LAN connection on the NUC showed the mini-router was connected! I retstarted and without wifi, the mini router is still connected. Following mac-c's suggestion going into the network listing on the laptop I clicked on the NUC and initiated remote connection. This appears to connect. The only issue I now have, is that when signing in, I get as far as the sign in page and the user states 'other user' and does not recognise the password...

Sorry about the late reply - work gets in the way of things I would rather be doing. To clarify: 'I'd be inclined to factory reset the router .. might be something stuck in the DHCP reservations' But the mini-router works with the old mini-pc'. Also, can the NUCopen the router admin page or even ping it's IP address ? As stated initially the NUC can open the router admin page, hence network adapter is working. Also as stated, remote desktop is working. Not sure but if the laptop is connected via wi-fi, to the ini-router, would the arp -a command show the NUC mac address/ip no allocated (the mac-address is hopefully on the NUC box label). Then he can try a ping and see if it gets a proper reply - to test the network card/cable. running arp-a gives me the following when run from the laptop connnected by wifi to the mini-router (arp -a.png) We need the details of the NUC and what network settings/adapters it has configured. Also, the NUC has to allow external remote connections either by activating Remote Desktop or for example adding a TeamViewer client (that also needs activating). Details of the NUC and network settings were given earlier. Adapter is given as Intel (R) Ethernet connection (3) I218-V I don't think we have asked about the NUC being new or pre-used. Pre-used The other thing to try is to connect both (the NUC and the laptop) on the home network and see if the NUC can be remote accessed. If that does not work it rules out the mini router. I have done this as stated previously - I can connect to the NUC over the home networkif it is connected by LAN to the network or wifi . The NUC can be accessed from the laptop if: NUC connected via Lan to wifi router---Laptop connected wirelessly to wifi router NUC connected via wireless to wifi router---Laptop connected wirelessly to wifi router ------------------------------------------ The NUC cannot be accessed from the laptop if: NUC connected via Lan to portable router---laptop connected wirelessly to portable router ---------------------------------------- IP address for Laptop when connected to portable router needs to be checked to make sure it is not the same as the NUC ip address The above summary is correct. I shall confirm IP address for laptop to portable router later. We've also asked the OP to confirm what version of Windows is running on both machines and there is no option for RDC on Windows 10/ 11 Home editions. Windows 10 pro as stated previously. You had a warning 'Network - no connection' - it may be that your NUC Lan is set to use an ip in the 192.168.1.x range as it works on your home PC - but would not get an ip assigned when connected to the mini router (192.168.0.x range). The NUC wifi did get a proper IP so try connecting both the Laptop and the NUC to the wireless TP-Link hotspot and try the remote connect then. Leave the LAN cable connected between the NUC/mini router so we can get the ipconfig details from it, if needed. To do this do I need to change the routers operation mode from access point wireless router?

Given the mini router connects to other mini computer via the same cable we can rule that out. Also, the NUC connects via lan to my home router - I did this to rule out the network card.

Yes of course. As stated before - it is not an issue with the previous mini pc.

However, LAN to the minirouter still shows network - no internet and does not state that the network is present to the TP link.