Stuart1971

If you use FB, join the Astroberry group....all the help you will need there....👍🏼 Or message me and I will help any way I can.... 👍🏼

Yes I did....as that’s the one most people use, I actually wrote “NUC or similar”.... As for power, first of all most of them are either 19v with some 12v, as for power draw, I would think similar to the RPI....up to 4 Amp...

The secret to no issues, is a good quality USB 3 powered hub, and a good 4 amp 5v power supply, I only have two USB connected to the RPI, and that is the Hub and WiFi dongle....works a treat...as for heat issues, mine has never gone above 50 degrees inside while testing, and 36 degrees outside while using and that was a summer evening, much lower in the winter. But admittedly, I use a USB 3 wifi external dongle as it’s much faster at 867 mbps and cost £9 from Amazon, and internal wifi is not used, although the hotspot is a available on that if I need it... If you do use internal wifi it should be only the 5ghz one, as the 2.4ghz does interfere with the USB, as they share the same BUS....also set to Chanel 44... 👍🏼👍🏼

Hmmm, I dont really agree entirely with this...it does not need to cost anywhere near £180+. RPI 4, 4gb, SD card and powered USB hub, £80 at most, a small 12v to 5v buck converter to power £5, and that’s all you need.... also it’s much smaller and lighter than any Intel NUC or similar, also you have the option of just running it as a server and using a PC indoors, if you prefer, and I never had any Wi-Fi or USB issues.... The RPI runs Kstars as well as any small PC as the software is designed to run of system with less resources. Just my opinion.... 👍🏼

Welcome to the simple side, I love Astroberry and it runs my whole rig flawlessly...and I also have the same case that you have purchased....I run it all from AB and VNC in to it, but I run mine from a 120gb SSD drive and not the SD card, it natively boots from USB with the latest firmware updates, and it roughly six times faster, ideal for saving large images during a session.... 👍🏼😀

After reading your post again, are you saying that the damp is purely from the roof needing repairs, or is it there all the time...? If just temporary because of repairs needed, then, yes go for the dehumidifier, but if an issue all the time, then you should treat the cause and not the symptoms....hence my first post of ventilation and a bit of heat... But for the obsy, it needs really good ventilation and then no dehumidifier will be needed... 😀

The other option, is to not bother with one at all, ventilation plus a bit of heat, means not condensation.... infact in your case, ventilation will be all you will need, as you will get heat up through the the Floors... 👍🏼

Hmmmm, I live in leicestershire.... 👍🏼

The CLS should be enough then.... Haply new year... 👍🏼

Your welcome.... As for the filter, the CLS should be fine, but will depend on your skies where you live and where they are on the bottle scale....the more LP the stronger the filter you will need.....

Oh, and to take a custom white balance image, put the CLS in the camera and take an image of a piece of neutral grey photographic card, on a bright day with the sun behind you, and make sure it fills the frame, then set this as the custom white balance....this works very well, some people say to use white card, but I found neutral grey much better and it’s also recommended in many places... 👍🏼

Hi, With the rear filter removed, and the front one still in place, you will NOT need another UV/IR cut filter, as the one left in the camera does a very good job of this, hence why it’s left in, the rear filter also cuts some UV/IR but also much of the Ha, hence why it’s removed....so for LP the cheaper CLS is all that’s needed.....the repositioning of the sensor is to enable autofocus to still work when using a camera lens, so you can use in this manner, it’s to counteract the loss of the thin filter....HTH... 👍🏼

Yes, the original QHY5 and also an Altair GPCAM, both the cameras work in Astroberry with Ekos....downloading a copy would be a good idea I guess, as you will see the issues we are facing...

Is that the latest...?

Ok, it’s 1.8.0

The lattest RPI version.....that comes with Astroberry....

Thanks James....appreciate your time on this.. 👍🏼 I have tried my QHY5 and an Altair camera and neither of them will be recognised, yet they both work in INdI on the RPI......have yet to try my Lodestars and see if they work....

Hi, I know the Author of this software uses this forum, but could not remember who...there is an issue with the RPI version on Astroberry not working with QHY or Altair cameras, is this a known issue or a glitch ? .. 👍🏼

Yes, me too with a 50mm camera lens, over 25 seconds... 👍🏼

You will if it’s that far off, and at high F ratio... 👍🏼

Your PA can’t be too good with trailing like that at 30 seconds....it really needs to be better, before setting up guiding...👍🏼😀

Well, as I stated you need much much longer exposures to get any benefit whatsoever from that filter, also some good PA and tracking would also be needed first, but a great start all the same....👍🏼

What scope are you using, as with 30 second subs, this filter will be of very little use to you...you will need much longer to allow the narrowband light to pass through....at least 3-5 minute.... at 30 seconds, the image will just be black with nothing to show.... 👍🏼

The save issue has been resolved, but as AB does not use the latest nightly repository then we have to wait until it’s in the stable version, unless you want to build from source....👍🏼

Hi and Merry Xmas... The new solver works but there are a few teething issues, but both Astrometry and ASTAP are still there to use, I have set mine back to local Astrometry and it works as it did before, but it won’t save the setting so when I reboot it goes back to the new Stellasolver, this has been sorted now but won’t get updated in Astroberry until the next stable release of Kstars.... What issues are you having....?