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  1. Stuart1971
    16m...you mean 16 minutes,...or seconds, as if 16 mins I would have thought the stars would be much more and brighter.... If you take say an exposure every minute for 1.5 hours and then say 20 dark frames of the same exposure length and then stacks the light and the darks together you would get something like this.... I did this with a canon 1000D unmodded camera on a tripod...
  2. Stuart1971
    Yes deffo hot pixels, and very common on an uncooled camera, but as has been said, dark frames will remover no problem...👍🏼
  3. Stuart1971
    yes it’s an apex I made as shown in one of the pictures, to the exact shape.. There is not at the moment, but it’s rare for the rain to move up hill over 5”...unless the wind was super strong, but we rarely get wind from that direction, and that side of the roof will be clamped down with clamps inside, so the two panels will be tight together with rubber against rubber....so I’m hoping all will be good....but I have an idea if there is an issue....👍🏼👍🏼
  4. Stuart1971
    And a short video, but will post one with full opening when I get retainers fitted on the roof... 0DBF65DC-36CA-49FE-98B0-623B660A95BA.MOV
  5. Stuart1971
    Pretty much got it finished now, roof panels rubbered up, and apex made up and fitted to the west facing roof panel, the barge boards are fixed to the shed rather than the roof panels, but the roof still overhangs by 3’ all round and has drip rails on the undersides, the hinges are superb and really heavy duty stainless steel 4” fire door hinges
  6. Stuart1971
    Door fitted and the 2 opening roof panels made up today, the other side of the panels is smooth, ready for the EDPM rubber roof membrane. Also today coated the whole shed with two coats of an oil based preservative, which soaked into the wood really well, and was able to use a sprayer so made light work of it... but my back gave up so had to pack up early....☹️
  7. Stuart1971
    Well made some good progress today, shed up and my outside sockets re positioned on the side as they would have been stuck behind...went up really well...👍🏼 The roof has to be made now, in two halves, and then two full length 4” x 2” batons down each side to support the fire door hinges which run on bearings, have to be fitted, then the EDPM roof fitted to each half...so some work to do yet....
  8. Stuart1971
    Well it’s finally arrived, so I will be unpacking it all and the build will start pretty soon....
  9. Stuart1971
    Well you would be surprised, and the fact you mentioned all your kit and a Baader filter, but failed to mention the white light filter....made me wonder....👍🏼
  10. Stuart1971
    And why was it so funny, you mentioned just the one filter, which is extremely dangerous...?
  11. Stuart1971
    Just that one filter.....or a white light filter too, I do hope you are not just using the Baader filter....😮😮😮😮
  12. Stuart1971
    Why would using Sudo potentially mess anything up, I use it all the time with all my commands, as if I don’t, somethings things won’t work.. am I missing something...?
  13. Stuart1971
    Would “sudo oacapture” show more..?.
  14. Stuart1971
    I thought that was sorted a long time ago on Astroberry....?
  15. Stuart1971
    Can I ask, why do you need to change it....sometimes this can issues, so don’t do it unless you really need to....I changed mine once and had a nightmare afterwards....but then again that was me, and Linux and me don’t seem to mix....👍🏼
  16. Stuart1971
    What info from this date...?? There is nothing asked for...!! 🤔
  17. Stuart1971
    I started this thread on December 29th last year, and I still can’t use my QHY5 or an Altair Astro camera with OAcapture on my raspberry PI...so I assume this is not going to happen anytime soon... ☹️
  18. Stuart1971
    Cant you connect both your mount and your Raspberry PI to your home network...?
  19. Stuart1971
    This is great to know as I have just bought the Geoptik 164mm version, so can I ask where do you have the dimmer set...as I found it seems to go from very dim, and then slowly gets brighter, then suddenly jumps to the brightest, it’s not the smoothest of dimmers, seems not to have much adjustment at the bright end, or is it just mine...?.
  20. Stuart1971
    I bought a round one from Aliexpress with the 12v inverter for £22 posted...worth a look...👍🏼
  21. Stuart1971
    AFAIK, it works fine with either...👍🏼
  22. Stuart1971
    The RA sounds exactly like it should now....but DEC is still not right......
  23. Stuart1971
    You can’t tighten the gears so there is no backlash, all bears need some backlash to work, you have to find the balance, also you have to,take into account the colder temps at night this will cause binding if the gears are too tight, and yours obviously are...maybe you should have posted this on the thread you already started about the noises your mount makes...as we are providing info on there for you.....🤔🤔
  24. Stuart1971
    So, if you are using a scope and imaging already, what’s with your other thread on using the LX90 vis a computer...?? I am confused...
  25. Stuart1971
    This is not right at all, I had this mount a few years back, and it was nothing like this one, it was smooth with just the hum of the steeper motors when slewing, and no noise when it stopped, I can assure you those “coffee grinder” noises are NOT normal....
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