Earl

SGP does support cloudsensors

energy / matter is never lost its always balanced, out of reach maybe but still in existance, (it is an interesting thought that if you can never interact with something is it lost i guess its one point of view) nothing can leave the universe unless matter / energy can skip between parallel universes, which is an interesting concept in itself and i think i have heard something about that somewhere as some sort of quantum state / property, cant recall which, but it was theoretical at best i think.

that ascom driver had me puzzled, there are a few connection options, this hopefuly solves a few problems

Sorry I have had no further input past installation, with the moon out the last few times it was clear I was using my C9.25 setup, I hope to have the FSQ rig up soon.

I get the gist that I take one image with the mount and scope and camera in a classical polar parked possition (ccd landscape), then another with the RA rotated 90 degees? moving the ccd to portrait

test from the images provided.

Installing it in the c:\users\lappy has solved that and the api goes in fine, be aware that if you cut and paste the api text off astrometery.net via a click selection of the text it adds a space on the end

Looks like im stuck on inptting the api as python is goving me: Its 2.7 {'parity': None, 'scale_est': None, 'myjobs': None, 'center_dec': None, 'scale_l ower': None, 'radius': None, 'center_ra': None, 'scale_units': None, 'wcs': u'C: /Program Files/photopolaralign/v.wcs', 'allow_mod': 'd', 'job_id': None, 'downsa mple_factor': None, 'public': 'y', 'galex_wcs': None, 'kmz': None, 'scale_err': None, 'sdss_wcs': None, 'allow_commercial': 'd', 'scale_upper': None, 'crpix_cen ter': None, 'upload_url': None, 'wait': None, 'apikey': '', 'sub_id': None, 'twe ak_order': None, 'upload': u'C:/Program Files/photopolaralign/v.jpg', 'server': 'http://nova.astrometry.net/api/' 'jobs_by_exact_tag': None, 'jobs_by_tag': Non e} Sending to URL: http://nova.astrometry.net/api/login {'parity': None, 'scale_est': None, 'myjobs': None, 'center_dec': None, 'scale_l ower': None, 'radius': None, 'center_ra': None, 'scale_units': None, 'wcs': u'C: /Program Files/photopolaralign/h.wcs', 'allow_mod': 'd', 'job_id': None, 'downsa mple_factor': None, 'public': 'y', 'galex_wcs': None, 'kmz': None, 'scale_err': None, 'sdss_wcs': None, 'allow_commercial': 'd', 'scale_upper': None, 'crpix_cen ter': None, 'upload_url': None, 'wait': None, 'apikey': '', 'sub_id': None, 'twe ak_order': None, 'upload': u'C:/Program Files/photopolaralign/h.jpg', 'server': 'http://nova.astrometry.net/api/' 'jobs_by_exact_tag': None, 'jobs_by_tag': Non e} Sending to URL: http://nova.astrometry.net/api/login Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\lappy\Anaconda\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1486, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "C:\Program Files\photopolaralign\PPA.py", line 593, in settings_destroy self.write_config_file() File "C:\Program Files\photopolaralign\PPA.py", line 584, in write_config_file with open(self.cfgfn, 'w') as cfgfile: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'PPA.ini' Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\lappy\Anaconda\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1486, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "C:\Program Files\photopolaralign\PPA.py", line 593, in settings_destroy self.write_config_file() File "C:\Program Files\photopolaralign\PPA.py", line 584, in write_config_file with open(self.cfgfn, 'w') as cfgfile: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'PPA.ini'

OK i solved that by opening the file with python (and creating an association, which for some odd reason decided to install in the users directory.... not progrtam files), then create a shot cut to the PPA file on the desktop. Now the api key does not do anythign when input. clicking ok doer nothing, however it seem to work by just closing the window with the x in the right corner.