Stuart1971

Very nice rendition, and especially for just 2.5 hours….👍🏻

To simplify you should have no pixels with a value of zero on the min side, but try to keep down below 1000 and as few as possible above zero on the max side…

The minimum is due to the offset, this should alway be above zero, but not too high, under 1000 is good, its how far your histogram is from the left side, as you should always have a number here, mine is always about 400, the max is how many pixels are over exposed, it will say 65000 and then a number with x after it, again this should not go to high, say not over about 200-300x, that means that there are 200-300 pixels that are over exposed, some are ok but the figure should be kept under about 500 if possible… the figure in your first image are ok, the 152x is fine, the 1x could do with being higher, so you need a higher offset to get that up to a couple of hundred or so so it means you have 152 pixels that are over exposed which is perfect. You will always have some, And you have 1 pixel that is clipped in the black point

Well they all play a part, just not sure which values you mean, can you send a screenshot of them….👍🏻

First of all what camera are you using…? the histogram should be just to the right slightly of the left side, so as not to clip any black pixels… So that is where you offset comes into play for CMOS cameras…it all about setting a good gain and offset, if it’s a CCD camera or DSLR then things will be different…👍🏻

Here you go first one I saw £80 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275460236589?hash=item4022b5a52d:g:xgkAAOSwnzhjIdrl&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoG16kZuLGsIwxzNCpm8hqGiW4JelJ%2BdPJgnKaZl4oVK0f5%2BDRuZgrW403eKHGawIGuMnT7%2BLqm1fDo5FKbj5wMdqsblacer5umWraEanGk5Ozub88wk2KeGLnMj3LOttD5PVp2sNl0537MKlLl%2FD66PblF0zTSGGlDibtYRRXXAvtpVBxxxG7w7Q6PaPaqzkqOSuWIIEW34vsLqtzbRACy4%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_KxrNPnYA and an i5 for the same price… https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265885134214?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D241915%26meid%3D548da8e8e9ff4148815e2ea989a6634c%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D275460236589%26itm%3D265885134214%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv11WebTrimmedV3MskuWithRevOptLambda90KnnRecallV1%26brand%3DIntel&_trksid=p2047675.c101195.m1851&amdata=cksum%3A265885134214548da8e8e9ff4148815e2ea989a6634c|enc%3AAQAHAAABEPZqctS1aW2Gn1fMafrLrPa7%2BqLD2Pgo5GTgCDTJgIpBMBHaBHcFvdVGNBWeIytK8U7x8RargP9Bv5VZgW5ZIFPxp%2FlXkwdmCAiAzvT1lEn0QXTwt5%2Facer6h1rxQV9llDWx6lqKkJsjQl%2BBb8Dib%2BB2BC%2F2TuOvXUsq%2F%2B%2FgtN51hjZhXFG9ACMpWn11%2FSAOEXpMzYjh2CYc6Lj7Rji78KTDGOQbaGVLsGKjl9e6uc2JWgfYGiqOQIvapYUao%2FWsOM5HPrsvoMIT4%2FrEbScNBj4TWpMtyMhPBDNsDkrJ0aLGj%2BIWF18D6HLUMtPGLzwLo7ZkNXrpAjuHQklVm5%2BW3GZbPJqXvT6B3b9%2F9Ur%2BJixF|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2047675

Hello, I bought an older i3 Intel NUC mini PC from eBay for £90 with 4gb RAM and a 120gb SSD drive fitted, Wi-Fi and 2 USB 3 ports and 2 x USB 2 ports, and with win 10 pro, this is more than enough power to run all your software without issues, they can be powered from 12v just fine, although the mains supply that tends to come with them is 19v, bit they can run from 11v up to about 20v, also due to the heat they will produce when running, frost should not be an issue at all..👍🏻

Yes what @teoria_del_big_bang said ….😂 I knew someone with more knowledge would come and help me out…. cheers Steve….👍🏻

You can put a keyword in the file name and it will group only those together, I am not expert, but I have seen this question on the PI forum and the answer was to use keywords, so maybe best to search in there as I don’t want to give incorrect advice… I think if you add the same session date to each set of flats, and then enter “DATE” in keyword it should separate them as you want…

Yes, especially if you use keywords…👍🏻

Me too, but now moved to purely Pixinsight….😮

You are correct, it does not work with older PS, I used to have CS6 and it was a nightmare to read….👍🏻

Yes the scaling works just like that, the text is readable perfectly fine, but you still get plenty on the screen, it’s perfect for PI and NINA, and the text is the perfect size… Scaling is automatic in windows but can be manually changed if needed, and it’s also available as an option in Linux, not sure about MAC, but I guess it would be…👍🏻

Really, I use a 28” 4k monitor all the time with RDP to my mount PC, it’s superb, and as windows always scales up to 150% anyway, why don’t you like…?? oh, and I do all my editing on it too….I really find it perfect…

Yes, this is totally correct, and should be put back in…..👍🏻

They are…that’s shown on the website…and in the FB group page….👍🏻

Have a look on the io group and see…👍🏻 https://groups.io/g/jtw-astronomy-users/topics

Which bit are you referring to as 3D printed…?

Check out the io, group many people have them now and some good reviews on there….👍🏻

Not sure what you mean here, looks pretty darn solid to me..🤔🤔

All true, they all knew it was still being developed, and that it was not fully tested and ready for despatch, but I think the timescale they were given was very optimistic… I have just had a long emailed reply from Mark at JTW, and he has explained the story and said he made a mistake and owns it, and has learnt big time from it, and the original adopters have got there mounts and are all very happy, yes they had to wait some time, too long really, but he responds to emails very quickly and seems to be a decent guy who made a mistake and has owned it, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt…but will wait for a few more reviews to come up… Its a solid looking mount especially at 50kg just for the mount head, the software is all open source, and had ASCOM drivers so will work with most software, which I like, also the price is excellent, compared to another popular friction drive mount we know…👍🏻

Well, I can afford to loose €100 so worth a punt me thinks….👍🏻

Well, they do exist, as people have got them and are using them now, also some reviews from users on the io group…so not strictly true….👍🏻

Very interesting, thanks for that, always good to hear stories like this, as it could save a few people from some headaches in the long run….👍🏻

Well, here is a first review from @peter shah sounds very good…. https://groups.io/g/jtw-astronomy-users/topic/initial_testing_and_first/92874029?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,92874029,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1658764230413680447&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1658764230413680447