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You could use a 12v to 6v buck converter.

Lovely mage Goran.

Not too bad an image by all means. Some chrominance noise showing probably because the 80D was hot. Might be able to process some of it out.

Started a new thread in August, going month by month now.

Not sure if this helps at all but Astroberry has both, might be a clue somewhere to get both working alongside each other.

If they are the little silver knurled thumbscrews it might be worth changing them to hex key bolts. Can you post a picture of the notch and screws ?

Nebulosity is faint but the stars look really good. Very nice image.

Blue's come up well in the second but it seems to have detracted from some of the other data a little.

Very good close view and nicely framed. Little bit saturated for my taste and some magenta showing quite strongly in the stars. Overall though you've got some superb detail, well done.

Shows the outer wings well in the starless.

That's excellent, really good gentle colours and well framed.

Could be the hex key is a fraction undersize. Doesn't take much on the smaller sizes to be useless.

Lovely image Goran.

Superb image, well done.

Maybe set up two or three Pi's as a rack. Not sure how but it might be feasible to have one with wifi connection and the other as hotspot. I recently managed to connect my Pi direct to MacBook via a Lan connection, you can feasibly go 100m + distance wise. That might be an alternative for long distance wifi.

Had a look at the manual and I don't think there's anything else you have to do. The longer bolt that's inserted into the the upper hole locks the elevation of the mount in place. Elevation will now be controlled via handset/computer to the motor.

That's a great result with the bad conditions.

That's come out even better, definitely picked up more of the faint outer arms.

Excellent image.

Nicely captured image, it's a nice looking group to target.

Excellent image, nice gentle colours and great detail on the dark nebulosity.

Knowing insurance companies they would replace it with the lowest end one possible. Do a few comparisons with current ones, megapixels functions etc.

Here's a write up of what I did, think I've remembered all the steps correctly. MacBook to Astroberry via direct Lan connection. 1. Download astroberry, Mac unzips automatically 2. Download Balena Etcher 3. Use Disk Utility to erase and format micro sd card, use MSDOS FAT 4. Insert sd card in Pi, attach keyboard and mouse and screen, turn on Pi. 5. Open terminal in Pi, type: sudo apt update 6. Then in Pi terminal, type: sudo apt upgrade 7. Wait till upgrades download and install, then type sudo reboot 8. Plug in Lan cable. 9. On the Pi, right click the wifi icon top right, click edit connections. 10. Click on the wired option then click the cog icon to edit. 11. In the IPv4 tab, add new IP address. I used Address: 192.168.2.2 (anything similar will do as long as it’s not in the same range as your home wifi) Netmask: 24 Gateway: 255.255.255.0 12. On your Mac open Sharing in System Preferences. Tick Lan 10/100/1000. Tick Internet Sharing and start. 13. Open Network in System Preferences, click on the USB LAN 10/100/1000. Configure IPv4 set to Manually IP Address set to 192.168.2.3 Set Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0 14. Open a browser window on your Mac, type in astroberry.local 15. In the small sidebar tab, click the telescope, tick the auto start and auto connect. 16. On your Mac launch Ekos, in the profile set it as Remote and set Host to astroberry.local, finish your profile. 17. Start up Ekos and it should connect.

As for hijacking this thread it's not a problem with me as it's all relevant (so far). The multistage alignment works well, I suppose it'll help if there's some thin patchy haze around so you won't lose all the targeted stars. If you're using Ekos on the Pi then you'd have to update it on the pi to the latest version, I think that'll be a "sudo update/get and upgrade" the specific file in terminal. Don't know what the range is but it might not be that large, just thinking that you can still be pretty portable with a direct cable. You can sit in your car up to 100m away and have a really good connection.

Lovely set of images.