>>> cameras can connect to only one application at a time. I may not understand this comment fully, but multilple apps can connect to a camera simultaneously with ASCOM drivers (and presumably Indi).

>>> If APPM will be able to platesolve using ASTAP directly, and I have an ASCOM camera (which APPM can also use) then no other intermediate software (SGP, NINA, etc.) is needed? correct This will be

Hi Joe for a mount with absolute encoders like yours, you are going to want a different approach than what's outline in the baseline guiding document. (My experience is with the 1600 ae and i also wro

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Hi Kent https://www.astromi.ch/product/mgbox/ V2 is a popular one https://www.astromi.ch/product/mgbox-v2/

Hi Tom if you are talking about building the pointing model, Ray does a great job covering it in this video he did with AIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdvABx0zpA

I am - i'm a longtime user of topaz and topaz AI. They can be really good, but generally for me they tend to be a bit heavy-handed, especially the denoise algorithms. I find Topaz clarity and detail a

Yeah it's interesting to see how processing techniques are evolving. Starnet was a curiosity a couple years ago, and now it's front and center! Brian

Hi Robert >>>For extended nebula or large galaxies this does not work. i think it works exceptionally well for extended nebulas, where enhancing the nebulosity without hurting the stars can really bri

Starnet only works on stretched images and is now part of regular PixInsight distribution The "starmask" version produces a color version of the stars, which is good for blending back, but this approa

Really nice Glenn. I like the color treatment, it often gets overprocessed but you did it beautifully

>>> Alternative: Deoxit Gold is a liquid in a tube not spray, and you could use a q-tip to apply ( i agree - i use only the spray on to a q-tip and then apply.

I use Deoxit D5 for electrical contacts https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-D5S-6-DeoxIT-Contact-Cleaner/dp/B00006LVEU

>>> ***The only reason for keyboard and mouse would be needed tests while at the mount, monitor as well. Most all other needs can indeed be done remotely with Remote Desktop or Team Viewer**** you can

Hi Steve I pretty much only use nuc-style computers (and by this I mean headless computers that I access remotely). i have a few here that work just fine: Intel NUC, Lenovo has some good ones. They ar

Assuming that is the folder in question, yes I unchecked that. You need to make sure you have admin priveleges i would also check it again afterwards to make sure the change "sticks". On another compu

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Chris just curious if you did a windows update anytime recently? I had an experience a few weeks back with TheSky X. After a recent Windows update, TPoint was unable to read files for plate solving. W

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tubes are going to be less problematic re: flexure than truss in my experience i did do unguided for quite some time with the CDK17 and could image 5 min subs pretty reliably - that's somewhere around

Hi Jeff I think it depends :) for a mach2 and perhaps a modest focal length/image scale, you could easily get away with just a model and no guiding As image scale gets more fine, everything becomes mo

>>>Be prepared for some very large image files either way you go. a single debayered ZWO 6200MC sub is about 750mb for me. yikes

Dale that seems quite impressive, thanks for the details