Nicks952

Sorry - didn't come back on this. Eventually did a chat on the NINA support forum. Turns out that my profile was corrupt. Once I deleted and recreated, it all worked OK. But thanks for looking Brown Dwarf !

I use the Primaluce Lab EagleCore to guide and control my camera. It's great. But I have noticed that when dithering is turned on, imaging can sometimes be interrupted due to errors in guiding exceeding a particular level. You can adjust the sensitivity to this in the advanced settings. But this means that if you have started a sequence and you leave it, you can come back and find that a dithering failure has stopped the sequence at some point. It doesn't tell you when it stopped. What I wanted to do was to be able to boost the Eagle Core wifi signal so that it would reach my sitting room and allow me to continue monitoring the run . But my booster and the Eagle didn't play nicely together. As my laptop is Win10 home, it can't remote into the main office PC (that is within range of the Eagle). The I remembered that the Steam client (I do gaming too) allows you to stream a game to another machine on the same network........so here's what I did..... Fire up steam on both machines Ensure that laptop is on main house wifi Connect the Desktop via wifi dongle to the Eagle Core (or whichever device) Start any game as a stream from the laptop (I use the Elder Scrolls Online game launcher. No need to start the actual game) The office desktop PC is now mirrored on the laptop. Voila ! I can now watch a movie un the sitting room while the Eagle does it's thing, knowing that I'll be able spot any errors. Hope this helps someone at some point. Clear skies Nick Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), Primaluce Lab Eagle Core & 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono

Hi all I may post this elsewhere as well. I use the EagleCore and that's great. But I have noticed that when dithering is turned on, imaging can sometimes be interrupted due to errors in guiding exceeding a particular level. You can adjust the sensitivity to this in the advanced settings. But this means that if you have started a sequence and you leave it, you can come back and find that a dithering failure has stopped the sequence at some point. It doesn't tell you when it stopped. What I wanted to do was to be able to boost the Eagle Core wifi signal so that it would reach my sitting room and allow me to continue monitoring the run . But my booster and the Eagle didn't play nicely together. As my laptop is Win10 home, it can't remote into the main office PC (that is within range of the Eagle). The I remembered that the Steam client (I do gaming too) allows you to stream a game to another machine on the same network........so here's what I did..... Fire up steam on both machines Ensure that laptop is on main house wifi Connect the Desktop via wifi dongle to the Eagle Core Start any game as a stream from the laptop (I use the Elder Scrolls Online game launcher. No need to start the game) The office desktop PC is now mirrored on the laptop. Voila ! I can now watch a movie while the Eagle does it's thing, knowing that I'll be able spot any errors. Hope this helps someone at some point. Clear skies Nick

In fact the image library hadn't copied. But I have now done it properly and I'm getting an error message

Hi all Resurrecting this a bit. I've installed NINA and put the graphics library in place and made the entry in the Options page - but I still don't see the images in the Sky Atlas section. Any ideas ? Thanks Nick Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), Primaluce Lab Eagle Core & 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono

Hi Steve I just ran a little experiment with the delay feature. Thought you might be interested. I set LENR to "on" on the Canon Timed a 15s exposure and noted how long it took for the camera to process it - around 35s - alhough it seemed a lot quicker when running the sequence. Setup the Eagle to use a 35s delay and take 3 x 15s exposures .....But of course I only needed a delay of just over 15 seconds..... My observations were that all exposures were taken but the image shown in the preview screen were one behind the shot just taken So it must be that the Eagle Core is posting the JPEG preview before the processing is complete It does mean that if you were sure you were on target and wanted to use LENR instead of darks and maybe go to bed, at least you'd know the sequence would run Obviously, overall run time is about the same as when taking darks. I also noticed that the exposure progress bar was unreliable (blanked out) if you set the delay to a value equal to or higher than the exposure time (reported to PLL). This happened with LENR off too. (iPhone 7, iOS 13, Safari and Chrome) All the best Nick

Reply from PLL: Filippo@PrimaLuceLab Aug 27, 10:35 Good morning Nick, thank you! We always develop the EAGLE CORE to be the most simple way for astrophotography (and not the most powerful). This is the reason why we haven’t added the Plate Solving but we focused on the usability. Being this said, we always work to develop new things and we’ll see in the future if it will be possible to add also this feature. Best regards.

Apologies if this isn't quite the right thread to use, but it is related to Eagle Core use. Do let me know if there is a better slot for it. Platesolving - (I have written to PLL to request it as a future development.) At my home location I have a lot of trees and therefore can usually only manage a 1 star alignment using the Skywatcher WiFi App on my iPhone. This limits my goto accuracy. I can get around it sometimes by re-aligning to a main star nearer to my chosen target. But I seem to spend, I feel, too long refining and framing the target. Thus I have a feeling that plate solving might be the way forward. I'd like to try it, but as I use the Eagle Core for guiding and acquisition I want to minimise the duplication of software functionality. So I was thinking that I could try and use my existing guidecam and guidescope combo to plate solve target correct the initial slew to target. So I'm just wondering if anyone has a little advice on implementing plate solving simply to correct for goto inaccuracy, after which I would revert to the simple Eagle Core guiding and acquisition routines. As I mentioned earlier, I use the WiFi module to connect to the mount and can get Stellarium to slew via the Skywatcher WiFi ASCOM driver. (I have a decent HP Envy Ryzen 5 laptop). I don't have any cables to make that connection. I'm also trying to do this with a zero spend if possible 😀. Any ideas? Thanks! Nick Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), Primaluce Lab Eagle Core & 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono

Just noticed that we also use the same post processing! Nick Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), Primaluce Lab Eagle Core & 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono

Thanks Steve - I'm very pleased with it. Yup - The Eagle Core "just worked". I love it on the rare occasions when that actually happens with something techy ! Just like you, I have a Star Adventurer, but the the Mini version. I think in retrospect that the non-mini was the one that I should have purchased as I think that one has a guide port ? Look forward to hearing how it goes. All the best Nick Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), PLL Eagle Core & PLL 60mm CompactGuide scope with QHY 5L-II mono

Hi Steve, Thanks for that. I use the PLL 60mm CompactGuide scope. For power I use a 12v 5A supply that I picked up from Maplin. I also have a Tracer 12v 10Ah lithium polymer battery pack for travelling. The Canon is powered directly from the Eagle Core. Clear skies Nick Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), Primaluce Lab Eagle Core & 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono

Hi Steve, Sorry if this goes on a bit! I hadn't realised at the time that I was being a bit of an early adopter. I was upgrading from a Skywatcher 150 newtonion on a manual eq3-2 mount and after much research ended up talking with the guys at The Widescreen Centre and they recommended a full-fat Eagle to go with the setup we were putting together. When I looked at pricing I realized that the Eagle Core would do the job for significantly less cash, as I was carrying on with my 600d. I have found it to be very easy to use once I had the right cables. The first camera power cable I was sent was too short, but was quickly replaced. Like others I was somewhat taken aback by the cost of the cables, but what are you going to do! It was nice to see the links earlier in this discussion to 365Astronomy's range of cables and especially the standalone connectors. To begin with, I did have some problems with the acquisition module. But they were related to the LENR and Mirror Lock-Up settings in the camera. At that time they were not documented in the manual. They might have been in the pdf version, but since I hadn't done a firmware upgrade, I hadn't looked at that. I did contact technical support and they were pretty good at responding, but they didn't solve the imaging issue, I experimented and found these for myself. I also had trouble with dithering which fails every now and then, at which point the whole imaging run is terminated - which is rather irritating. Tech support also stopped responding to queries on this. I can see now there are some advanced settings that may help with that. This all sounds very negative but I love the Eagle Core. When working, which is now most of the time, it is a simple delight to use. I have it mounted on the handle that is on the top of the main scope o-rings, with the guidescope atop that. Feels very solid and makes for a quick and easy setup. I find the guiding to be excellent - this hardly ever gives me any trouble and is usually sub-1 arc second. Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), Primaluce Lab Eagle Core & 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono

Hi all, Just found this thread. It’s felt pretty lonely as an Eagle Core user! Been using mine for a couple of years now and it’s worked pretty reliably. I agree that some additional features would be a good value-add. Plate solving for sure ! I just updated to 2.8 having thought a few weeks ago how nice a delay feature would be 😀and there it was ! Thinking about it, could one add a delay that was the same as the exposure time, thus allowing us to use long exposure noise reduction? (LENR doubles the exposure time doesn’t it?) Nick EXplore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmoded), Eagle Core, Primaluce Lab 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono