scotty38

Just for when you're back up and running, are you aware of the USB port quirks of the PBA? Also in NINA I,d recommend using the native drivers as they expose the options better so you don't need to dive into the ascom settings if you want to change some of the options.

I tried the exposure calculator quite some time back and mine resulted in a crazy long time, well way longer than my usual 300s. At the time it seemed like I must have made some sort of mistake so I just ignored it and never bothered again. I'm in a Bortle 3/4 so maybe it wasn't so far off after all and maybe I should revisit it........

533 by the look of the width and height pixels.... Suspect it was a DSLR previously hence why the option has disappeared.....

@newbie alert that's the normal exposure button, the live view button is a video camera icon and is not shown in his screenshot but I don't think it's available for normal astro cameras but happy to be proven wrong.

There should never have been a live view, only way to get close was to loop short exposures..... Well, I will add I have seen the live view on the simulators but not on real cameras as it were

Thanks will have a look later. I have an AZ-EQ6 but I guess most of it will apply in principle....

Nothing wrong with those numbers blimey.... What was your tweaking process?

Yep looks like focal length wasn't set the same in all places....

To be honest, I'm pretty much aware of what I need and what I'd buy if I upgraded and it would be Ryzen 9 based most likely..... I'm on the PI forum already so I see a lot of the chatter on performance too.

I just use an i5 with 16GB and 1TB SSD. I dual boot Linux and Windows as Linux runs that bit faster but either way neither are that speedy so I wouldn't recommend this spec as anything brilliant but I know that and for me I can get by. I just have to leave things like WBPP to get on with it and accept it takes time especially if there's a decent number of frames to process. Not so long ago I processed around 500 frames and it took over 12 hours.....

Nice work, you're a fast mover I'll give you that!

Yes that was the point I was making, I was trying to ask if you were happy or not with your machine's performance as that would be a pointer to replicate, or not, your build. Now you've said you're happy that's a good pointer, thanks!

Are you saying that's good, bad or indifferent though otherwise I'm not sure how it's helping?

I just read through this again so as Steve says above I couldn't spot anywhere where after you've modified framing manually you then go and similarly rotate the camera etc. Unless you do this then the discrepancy is to to be expected, maybe this is the piece we've been missing hopefully.....

Nope I'll never agree with that, I love to see masses of stars, beautiful.... 🙂

Are you now testing tilt on the full rig? You only removed tilt from "part" of the rig didn't you? If you're using the full rig now isn't it possible the focusser has some tilt for example? Either way I wouldn't worry until you have everything fitted together and you've taken some pictures. To be honest ASTAP numbers on mine seem worse than pictures themselves, well they do to me anyway 🙂

First one for me

It sounds like the Nebulosity/new Ascom driver combo is not setting things correctly then on the face of it.

Nope not really, especially if it's not easy, in fact ease would be the only reason.

The machine in the obs has a wireless signal but is it actually connected to the network. If you log into that machine directly can you get anywhere else, in fact back out to the internet for example?

Ah ok I see, that was my misunderstanding then... Back to the original idea then 🙂

ok no problem but I thought the FSQ had a rotatable focuser so was just a case of undoing a thumbscrew?

Having said that, if you think about it, rotating the focuser achieves the same thing if you didn't want to rotate the whole tube for any reason.

Can't see why not, I've seen it done many times.... In fact I only have to look on my own pier 🙂 🙂 I turned my GT81 upside down for this very reason.

Sorry can't really help with PS, probably need someone like @ollypenrice to give you some tips there