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Following the arrival of our daughter 2.5 years ago the telescope has been stored away waiting for a time when I don't need every single second of sleep and have more than a few minutes of free time.
Remembering how to do almost everything telescope related was a task in itself - I have forgotten so much. But I knew that going into the evening and set myself a low bar target of getting one video captured. The settings didnt matter, the quality didnt matter - just manage to get eveything set up and get the camera connected and working.
I went out with the scope at 1930 and had a very frustrating time with alignment/goto, then the spot were I set up was too windy for any imaging so I had to move. And then when everything was good to go I had the absolutley bewildering experience of opening firecapture for the first time in 30 months. Its not exagerating to say I have forgotten 100% of firecapture operation. Eventually after much trial and error and guessing I managed one short video with what seemed to be reasonable settings. So I headed indoors.
Pretty pleased with the result, its less than what the equipment and conditions were capable of but in astronomy its always nice when it the user is the limiting factor and not cloud/needing new expensive things.
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Firecapture to control CGEM.... how?
in Getting Started With Imaging
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Hello all...
I know I'm probably late to this game but I've always controlled my CGEM with the hand controller. Recently I've decided I'd be a lot more comfortable in my living room and do my image capture and scope control via firecapture from in there..... But how???
Basics first: What cables do I need and what gets plugged where? Or if there's a good guide for doing this with the CGEM perhaps someone could point me to it?
Thanks for any help!