So here's the the main issue I have that has been preventing me from wanting to upgrade from Standard to Pro: I have to buy other software to make APPM work, and APPM is really one of the primary reas

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What can I say, Han doesn't really care about versioning. I wouldn't quibble over that since we as developers know that versioning can be rather arbitrary. At any rate, the source for ASTAP and all of

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If one is using ASTAP with long focal length telescopes, there is this *very* important tidbit in the ASTAP documentation: • For telescope with a small field of view <20 arcmin you could download the

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I'm not an APPM user having only the Standard edition of APCC, but I'm wondering if there needs to be some settle time in between the time the mount says the slew is complete and before APPM asks for

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Ok, I see. The important distinction here is that the RA that that is *displayed* is of a lower resolution than what it *solves*. Getting a more precise display of RA coordinates is basically just ask

ASTAP outputs WCS formatted FITS keywords, either as a separate file or added to the FITS header of the image that was solved. ASTAP is not ASCOM capable itself so it cannot talk to a mount directly a

You must have been subscribed to the old yahoogroups lists with both email addresses. Hit the "Contact Group Owner" link that is at the bottom of every message and ask that they (probably Marj and Kar

Honestly any small low power router that can operate at a voltage you can supply from your power source will work. As for the operating temp it gets only to -10c here where I live at its coldest but I

I use an industrial fanless mini PC from OnLogic, in their ML100 series, specifically the ML100G-51 model: https://www.onlogic.com/computers/industrial/fanless/ml100-series/ The Whiskey Lake CPUs have

I've been through a few iterations with my setups over the years because I'm a mobile imager who sets up and tears down every time, and I have two setups - my large one based around a 130GTX/Mach1/Eag

Great! But 180s exposures for plate solving is... a bit long. For plate solves, I do 5 second exposures through the luminance filter on my 130GTX @ f/4.5. Do you have some really slow optics where 2 m

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This is the same camera that I'm adapting for my all-sky camera. If you're curious about its NIR response, talk to Christopher Go, who has been posting some really good methane stacks of Jupiter made

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Here's a good summary from FrameOS: https://www.framos.com/en/news/what-is-sony-s-exmor-technology-anyway /dale

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FWIW, the IMX533/571/455 series are evolutions within the Exmor R (fifth generation) family. Sixth generation refers to sensor designs within the Exmor RS family, the "S" denoting stacked silicon desi

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I certainly will! /dale

The sensor is quite sensitive enough to produce very nice sky images at night. The IMX462 is based on Sony's 6th gen sensor tech, which includes back-illuminated thick silicon. This enables particular

I'm currently building my own all-sky camera that incorporates a camera that uses the IMX462 color sensor (1920x1080, 2.9um pixels) and uses the same 1.55mm CS-mount lens made by Arecont Vision that t

Another nice aspect of RoRs is that they can be arbitrarily sized and made to accommodate multiple, independently pointing imaging setups. So if you have your permanent setup on a pier that's cemented

As an aside, this is an example of a possible improvement in ASCOM. Right now there is no real way for a driver to give feedback to the client app regarding /why/ it suddenly did an uncommanded (from

I'm working out the QHY600 + 7x50mm filter wheel on my 130GTX+QTCC right now. Long story short, the focal ratio made traditional tilt correction impossible to do and so I'm awaiting delivery of a CTU