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More accurate guiding deviation error option - by: PK

January 24, 2020, 12:04 pm
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Guiding errors are absolute errors, but the guiding deviation error monitor code does not see that.

For example…. let's say we set a guiding deviation error of 2 arc seconds, before canceling an exposure.
If we get an error of +1.5 then no exposure suspension is done. But let's say the error goes from +1.5 to -1.5 over the course of the exposure. That's an absolute error of 3 arc seconds, and would ruin the exposure.
This would explains why I see some trailed images, when no deviation error was detected.

I suggest EKOS measure the total ABSOLUTE amount of error over the course of the exposure. That would eliminate this problem.

Peter
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Does anyone have the autostar function working? - by: PK

January 25, 2020, 2:28 am
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Its been almost a year since the autostar function stopped working on my Ubuntu 16.04 box or Mac OSX. With every upgrade I hope it will work again, but so far not.
Without it, I can't use the scheduler or unattended meridian flip. It always selects an empty space, then fails to find a guide star or a focus star,.

Additionally the subframe does not work either, but I can live without that.

Peter
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Manual focus? - by: hwahlberg

January 25, 2020, 2:59 am
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So far I have not used any focusing in indilib since I focus manually using liveview on my DSLR and a Bahtinov-mask
Now, waiting for a ASI294MC Pro camera, how do I focus with that camera since there is no liveview?

Can I use the focus-module with the ASI294 in a manual way?

Regards
Håkan Wahlberg
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Crazy meridian flips! - by: PK

January 25, 2020, 7:15 am
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Has anyone else had EKOS just start doing meridian flips for no reason? I was imaging along with no major issues when suddenly it decided to do a meridian flip- almost two hours from the meridian. The mount swung around but of course had to go back the other way again since it really couldn’t reach the target yet. This happened about every ten minutes of tracking and each time it tried to find a guide star, the whole imaging session ended because the auto star bug failed to find a guide star ( see my previous post on that). I quite KStars and tried imaging again. Same thing happened again! After three inappropriate flips I got so frustrated that I called it a night and gave up.


Each time the mount was tracking correctly, synced to the target, and KStars showed the correct location. The date and time was correct.

This has never happened before. EKOS is now so unreliable that I am ready to give it up entirely. It used to have a minor bug here and there, but now it is completely unusable for me. And I have not changed any of my equipment or operating system in two years.

Is there anyone who has a reliable, working system?
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Indi DRIVER for Planewave Focuser and Delta interface - by: Blue Ridge Observatory

January 25, 2020, 2:36 pm
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Is there an Indi driver that exist for the Planewave Hedrick focuer and Delta interface for the heaters for use with Rasberry Pi
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Greetings and Help - by: carkinzo

January 26, 2020, 2:47 am
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Hi everyone, I'm a new user, I'm Italian and I don't know English, so I use an automatic translator.
I discovered by chance Kstars+Ekos and I found it very interesting, but I have some problems that I can't solve and because I'm quite ignorant, I need to be helped in a very basic way.
I'll start with the most important things, then I'll do some more maybe in another topic.
I downloaded the latest version for Mac and did the installation following the automatic wizard instructions.
I installed the software on 3 different Mac computers and with everything I have the same problems.
1) Why do I not have the various languages available?
If I go to the Help--> Switch Application Language menu,
I have only US English and all the other languages are not available, even if I would only need Italian.
How can you solve this problem?
2) In Align mode the Plate Solver Off-Line does not work.
At the bottom of the screen, it tells me that it crashed right away and I can't do anything, while testing in online mode, everything seems to work.
The problem is that in the places where I go to photograph, there is no internet connection so I can't use this mode!
How can I solve this problem?
Is there a very simple step by step guide that can help me?
Because I think it's just a problem of settings.
I also have other questions to ask, but for now I'll settle for these two. Then I'll ask more.
I'd like to thank everyone who can help me.
Thank you

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Using a touchscreen with either Stellarmate or Astroberry - by: stash

January 26, 2020, 4:40 am
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Hi ,

I was asked about using a touch screen ,attached to RPI4,with Astroberry V2 or Stellarmate.

Dont know the model/size etc.

Will be using it to control/see Astroberry/Stellarmate in the field.

Anyone used one ? views/experiences / problems etc appreciated.
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Indi and QHY 183C - by: rmor51

January 26, 2020, 11:05 am
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Hi,

just a short question: Is the QHY 183C cam running with the Indi Qhy driver ? Thanks.

Robert
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Changing or turning off password on the web UI - by: wanthalf

January 26, 2020, 1:28 pm
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Hi, I cannot find out how to change, or even better, completely remove the password entry required when opening the web VNC desktop in a browser. The password is not related to the user password and I think it is completely useless anyway (the wireless password is enough, I think).
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Roof Controller - by: Blue Ridge Observatory

January 26, 2020, 2:32 pm
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Any one using the Lunatico Dragonfly Roof Controller with Stellar Mate/Ekos? I did not see a driver for it. I have this roof controller in my observatory but it uses Ascom and Windows currently.
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Problem ZWO EAF Focuser... - by: Marc2b

January 26, 2020, 4:10 pm
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I am in trouble with my EAF focuser.
It works from Ekos/INDI Panel, but refuses to work with my joystick. The joystick does its job with the mount, but the focuser only beeps when receiving a command and does not move.
Here's my joystick config:
- Buttons 1/4 : Park/unpark mount
- Buttons 2/3 : abort slewing/abort focusing
- Buttons 5/6 : Slew rate down/up
- Buttons 9/10 : Focus in/focus out

The EAF has some kind of built in "Roger Beep" that sounds at each command it receives. In my case, that's all it does

File Attachment:

File Name: Kstars.log
File Size: 28 KB
:(
In attachement my log, if someone is kind enough to have a glance... Look for '//' for my comments. Thanks in advance!

- Marc
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Language switching issue for Mac version of KStars - by: T-Studio

January 26, 2020, 4:28 pm
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Language switching for Mac version of KStars does not seem to work depending on OS version.

10.12.6 → Language switching OK
10.13.6 → language switching NG
10.15.2 → language switching NG


I tried the following with OS version that cannot switch languages.

・ Check permission settings of application
・ Restore access right with disk utility
・ Rewrite configuration file of / Users / User / Library / Preferences / klanguageoverridesrc

Etc., but it did not resolve.

Please let me know if there is a workaround.Language switching issue for Mac version of KStars
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Nightly Kstars crashing while doing ASTAP plate solving - by: avarakin

January 26, 2020, 5:47 pm
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Hi,
I installed the latest nightly build using PPA and noticed that Kstars crashes while doing ASTAP plate solving.
I did not try astrometry solver, it may have the same issue too.
The problem went away once I switched back to the stable version.
My system is RPi4, Ubuntu 18.04.

Alex
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KStars Mac DMG 3.4.0 beta testing needed - by: rlancaste

January 26, 2020, 10:56 pm
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I just built a DMG based on the latest KStars and INDI source. There are a couple of drivers missing due to a couple of minor issues, RTLSDR, LIMESDR, and I think INDI Webcam. These should be resolved before 3.4.0 is actually released.

Please test it thoroughly and let me know if there are any Mac specific issues.

Thanks,

Rob

www.indilib.org/jdownloads/kstars/beta/kstars-3.4.0.dmg
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fitsviewer: segmentation fault - by: alacant

January 26, 2020, 11:31 pm
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Ubuntu 18.04: kstars clean install from git source.

Hi everyone
Not having much luck with fitsviewer. There's a crash after uploading an image from the camera, an eos450. Worked ok for 29 captures then:
Maybe related to this?
www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/6346-fitsview...ge-causes-crash.html

Any ideas?
TIA,
Steve

log: drive.google.com/open?id=1kAspwflY_ywhUkt0rxEdf3lovUUZhDYh

Thread 7 "Thread (pooled)" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffbf5ee700 (LWP 2060)]
tcache_get (tc_idx=7) at malloc.c:2943
2943 malloc.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff01dd207 in tcache_get (tc_idx=7) at malloc.c:2943
#1 0x00007ffff01dd207 in __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=128) at malloc.c:3050
#2 0x00007ffff0b80258 in operator new(unsigned long) ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#3 0x00007ffff2ea7cdf in QImageData::create(QSize const&, QImage::Format) ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
#4 0x00007ffff2ea7e9b in QImage::QImage(QSize const&, QImage::Format) ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
#5 0x00007ffff2ea7ed5 in QImage::QImage(int, int, QImage::Format) ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
#6 0x00007ffff2ea84b3 in QImage::copy(QRect const&) const ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
#7 0x00007ffff2ea8c7f in QImage::detach() ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
#8 0x00007ffff2ea8d27 in QImage::scanLine(int) ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Gui.so.5
#9 0x0000555555a03d54 in (anonymous namespace)::<lambda()>::operator()(void) const (__closure=0x55556349b130)
at /home/steve/Projects/kstars/kstars/fitsviewer/stretch.cpp:90
#10 0x0000555555a1c12d in QtConcurrent::StoredFunctorCall0<void, (anonymous namespace)::stretchOneChannel(T*, QImage*, const StretchParams&, int, int, int, int) [with T = short unsigned int]::<lambda()> >::runFunctor(void) (this=0x55556349b110)
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtConcurrent/qtconcurrentstoredfunctioncall.h:70
#11 0x00005555559feebd in QtConcurrent::RunFunctionTask<void>::run() (this=0x55556349b110)
at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtConcurrent/qtconcurrentrunbase.h:136
#12 0x00007ffff21dc2b2 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#13 0x00007ffff21df17d in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5
#14 0x00007ffff14ab6db in start_thread (arg=0x7fffbf5ee700)
at pthread_create.c:463
#15 0x00007ffff026788f in clone ()
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:95
(gdb)
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Interface with Home Assistant - by: fcasarra

January 27, 2020, 3:27 am
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It would be nice to add an interface with " Home Assistant "

Many automation procedures in an observatory can be automated with IoT devices (plugs, lights, sensors, ...).

Home Assistant is an open source project to control IoT devices from many manufactures from a local server (not relying in private cloud services) suitable for Rasperry Pi devices.

An interface between INDI and Home Assistant will provide the benefit to access a lot of the new and cheap devices (such Shelly ) to automate our observatories.

The reverse could also provide voice control to our telescopes ("Ok Google, point telescope to M42")

Also, having Home Assistant included could make Stellarmate a more valuable gadget.
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PEC with the Celestron GPS driver - by: ChrisRowland

January 27, 2020, 6:40 am
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I have added PEC to the Celestron driver. It is available for mounts where the hardware supports it.

This implements PEC Seek Index, Record and playback. PEC recordings are saved to a file and can be uploaded to the mount from a file, possibly after averaging.
Details are here: www.indilib.org/devices/mounts/celestron/celestron-nexstar.html

The sources are available now and compiled versions will become available as the various builds are done.

Chris
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Which Ubuntu desktop is best for KStars/EKOS or does it matter? - by: PK

January 27, 2020, 10:50 am
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I am using Lubuntu 18.04.
Is there any operational performance difference with Lubuntu vs Mate?

Peter
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Polar Alignment issue with EKOS and Astrometry - by: AradoSKYindi

September 3, 2019, 3:52 am
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Hello,

I am seeking assistance with the Polar Aligment process within EKOS. I have a profile in EKOS setup with my equipment. GPSD is working fine and setups up the site to be searched. I dutifully open EKOS and pick polar alignment. I am pointed to Polaris. My tilt has Polaris in the cross hairs relatively speaking. This should be an easy setup.

Pass one gets a image from the QHY Polemaster. Pass 2 and 3 occur after a long time, 15 minutes. Solver has FAILED. After reviewing the logs, I see messages saying Astronmetry index files are missing. To me, this suggests that the area I am in and Astroberry are not in sync. KSTARS shows the correct coordinates for my area. GPSD is working. The first picture shows Polaris. So, what is up with Astrometry?

I went to the Astrometry site. I reviewed the files there and compared what I default had with Astroberry. All files looked similar. All were index files. Some were specific files. Astrometry files are dated 2013. Astroberry files are dated 2017. The specific error message files are there.

Question 1: What is the application for Astroberry PI to download and refresh Astrometry?

I have synaptic installed. I will see if I can refresh the installation. I do desire to get an automated Polar Alignment set up. Thank you for reading this.
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Ekos 3.3.6 : No summary screen preview on MacOSX - by: nmac

September 15, 2019, 5:54 am
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I still have this problem on my Mojave Mac:
indilib.org/forum/general/5462-new-mac-k....html?start=36#41572

Fits images are still not displaying on summary screen preview during the capture session.
I have confirmed and I have this option selected, so it should work. It only works on independent fits viewer window.

Since I have reported this for the first time it never worked again, either building from sources or downloading from KStars website.

Nobody has this problem???
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