Stuart1971

Well after having the desiccant tube in my QHY268 for 4 days the humidity reading at zero degrees was 38% and at -10 was just 48%, now after removing the desiccant tube about a week ago, the humidity is back to 61% at zero degrees and up at nearly 70% at -10..😮 So the sensor chamber is deffo not sealed properly, and I can see it’s probably beneficial to leave the desiccant tube in all the time….

Great image…👏🏻 can I ask what you used for your website, what hosting and design, as it’s excellent, nice and simple and to the point, with a good easy to navigate set of pages…👍🏻

Stunning 👏🏻👏🏻 is my maths correct, over 41 hours of integration time…😮😮

Ah, yes, I see it now, what threw me was the colour as it looks black in the image, and I know they are blue in colour….👍🏻

Great glad you sorted it…yes best to give individual names, although when you hit connect after the first time it may well remember and connect automatically anyway from now on… Very Nice set up there, what mount is that…?

So best to give each of your boxes a unique name in the configuration in Unity, then you know which is which…👍🏻

In the Pegasus Unity software, does it show the two boxes there..? If so then you need to pick the item from the drop down list, in each instance of NINA, then click the gear icon on that same tab, and choose the correct box from the Unity icon that pops up in NINA

Ah, and it’s $45, I will stick with Stellarium…

Just looked on there site and there has been no updates since 2020, are you sure it’s still being developed…? EDIT: Ok I went to the download page and not the beta testing one, all good….👍🏻

You are certainly not on your own here, i was exactly the same, to the point where I went year in and year out, for around 5 years, with about 4 sessions under my belt, BUT the turning point for me, as has been said already was building a permanent home for my rig, so I just have to nip out and open the roof, takes 45 seconds, and that it… TBH without my little mini obsy, I would have given the hobby up. Even now if I have to re do my PA or change something that can only be done at night outside in the cold, it take me a while to bother to do it, but ATM all is good and set up ready to go at a moments notice. I have a second scope, an 8” SCT, and it sits in the garage store cupboard year after year, because the thought of swapping all my kit over and then re rigging all the neat wiring, just cause me so much anxiety, I don’t use it, even when galaxy season comes round, I carry on with my frac rig. It’s just easier….☹️

No I haven’t ever tried this, I am still using what came with the camera, old firmware and old USB driver, but what I will say is that AFAIK the firmware is updated along with the USB driver, and there was a firmware update for the cooling on these cameras in the last 6 months I believe

I managed another 9 hour session last night from 18:00 until 3:00 am, and got SHO data in 3 targets. Everything worked flawlessly again which I was happy about after a few months of disconnect issues with my CEM70 mount, I finally got it sorted… ‘It was cold and the QHY268 stayed at -10 with zero cooler power needed yet it was only -5 outside, which was odd, and the camera even dropped to -11 for an hour or so, again with zero cooler power, I started to think of @tomato and his issues, but then the outside temp came up to about -4 and the cooler power kicked in on 1.6% to keep the camera at -10, so I assume all was good… Not sure how the camera stayed at pretty much exactly -10 with zero cooler power when the outside temp was almost 5 degrees warmer…🤷🏼‍♂️ ? and as I said, at one point the camera dropped to -11 It does seem as if these cameras are a bit quirky in the colder temps

Sorry, I posted on the wrong thread…my appologies, re posted in correct thread now But odd you needed 4% power to keep your camera at -10 and I had zero power for the exact same temps….-10 camera with -5 outside…🤔🤔

Sorry deleted as posted in wrong thread…☹️

The green gradient is normal, just do an unlinked stretch and it won’t show, the STF stretch is just for your benefit, the image is still linear..and GraXpert will work on the Linear data..

I found this, says it’s an LP filter but looks different to yours…🤔 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Freewell-Pollution-Reduction-Camera-Compatible/dp/B08K91RB4B?th=1

Can I ask, where did you get the filter from…?

+1 for this..👍🏻

Yes, those were my thoughts, it’s nigh on impossible to touch the inner and outer parts of the jack plug incorrectly…. Maybe something has shorted inside the camera where the socket is soldered on to the board… but as @Richard_ says, you have certainly had you share of bad luck..☹️

I had a sneaky suspicion it might be after you said that it would not power up, it would have been strange for it to have been the motherboard and the hand control that failed at the same time, and the had control was deffo an issue…they do also suffer in the cold too. Anyway glad it ,looks like it’s sorted…👍🏻

Very good point… There not bothered about mounts as they dont really sell many them, other than the AM3 and AM5, but I get your point…so why won’t they allow other cameras to use the ASIair then…. I don’t know..🤷🏼‍♂️

I think he said that the handset does not even power up, so nothing on the display, no error messages…and the back of the handset is getting very warm…

Do you not use the mount for imaging, as you don’t need the handset for that, so could prove it’s the handset that is the issue…?

Also dumb question, but it’s not just the handset that has failed is it…?

Your welcome, might be worth asking FLO about this, if you go down the route of a new board…👍🏻