Gallery - HD 14771 and Galactic Friends - by: Lead_weight
Despite a few crazy issues with 2.9.8 on the Mac, I managed to produce a neat image. I centered the star HD14771 to place NGC 891 in the lower right and a galaxy cluster in the upper left. After two...
View ArticleSetting up Gemini 2 - by: lloydmerrill
I'm new to Indi and Kstars. I'm trying to set up my Losmandy Titan mount using the Gemini 2 controller. In Kstars>Tools>Device Manager>Local/Server>Telescopes>Losmandy Gemini. On the...
View ArticleMy first successful (but painful) Ekos/Stellarmate session - by: maxthebuilder
Hello, Just wanted to share a newb experience. The setup: -- RPI with StellarMate OS, indi server, kstars and ekos. -- Skywatcher AZ-GTI mount in EQ mode -- Nikon DSLR with 180 mm manual antique lens....
View ArticleQhy2Pro not working? :-( - by: universalmaster
Hi! I have a QHY2 Pro that I was hoping would work with indi. When I start the driver it sees the camera and I am able to change things such as gain and offset in EKOS, but when I try to take an...
View ArticleUnticking DSLR preview window disables preview - by: wvreeven
In Ekos nightly there is a new option allowing you to disable the preview window of images taken with a DSLR. I like the option very much since I want to have Ekos on top when I am monitoring my...
View ArticleImage counting after deleting files - by: DerPit
I just had to abort an imaging sequence because the guiding went crazy. The last three files that were captured in the running sequence were bad , so I deleted them. The sequence had been for 140...
View ArticleQuestion for Pentax users - by: Blueshawk
Despite helping get Pentax working in gphoto a while back I still have no joy on bulb mode for my k-50. I'm considering getting a different model to use. Can I get a head count of any Pentax users...
View ArticleUnticking DSLR Image Viewer disables preview - by: wvreeven
In Ekos nightly there is a new option allowing you to disable the DSLR image viewer. I like the option very much since I want to have Ekos on top when I am monitoring my imaging session. However,...
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KStars Mac DMG 3.0.0 beta testing needed - by: rlancaste
Dear Fellow Mac users, Very soon, KStars 3.0.0 will be released. In preparation for this release, it would be good if we could get feedback from Mac users on any issues or bugs that you might find....
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A quick M 52 and friends - by: wvreeven
Last night was not exactly clear but doable. Occasionally lots of cirrus clouds would pass over with clear patches in between. I used the Canon EOS 700D with an LPS-D1 light pollution filter on the 71...
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kstars strange marker - by: DerPit
Sorry for the stupid question I noticed a strange double marker centered on the Dumbbell Nebula: and I have no idea where it's coming from. I right-clicked to check labels and flags, but it doesn't...
View ArticleNew-ish astrometry.net and Ekos - by: papaf76
Hi all, yesterday evening I used the new notebook which I installed Ubuntu 18.04 onto. To my surprise, plate solving would not work because Ekos invokes the solver with the now deprecated - -...
View ArticleQHY5 PHD Guiding Issue - by: astro31
Hi , i use an QHY 5R camera for guiding , it is recognized by Stellarmate i can make some pictures but xhen i launch PHD2 and select QHY 5 camera i have this message Libusb failed to open camera QHY5...
View Articlescheduler: no frame update or dither after frame download - by: alacant
Hi everyone Last night we were fine up to frame 21. Then the scheduler did not update the frame count and no dither was performed. The error in capture said that the frame was being redone 'attempt #1'...
View ArticleCould we have hour angle on the ekos summary screen? - by: alacant
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View Articleqhy5 guider stop to works after latest indi updates - by: astropaul
Hi to all. I'm using indi on my raspberry PI3 (ubuntu mate 16.04). After to have updated to latest version all indi packages my QHY5 is not more able to works well. Before the upgarde with 2 seconds of...
View ArticleAstroPhysicsExperimental pulse guiding - by: wotalota
I have failures with pulse guiding while ST4 works using the internal guider, previous experience is that pulse guiding also fails using PHD2. Fedora 29 Kstars 3.0.0 Build: 2018-12-07 3.0.0-32.4 INDI:...
View ArticlePHD2 setup question - by: wotalota
When setting up to use PHD2 to test pulse guiding using AstroPhysicsExperimental I stumble using the PHD2 wizard. The first screenshot shows the dialog boxes encountered when selecting guiding through...
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If autofocus fails it loses the star marker :( - by: DerPit
I just had a failing autofocus. So it went back to initial focus, and restarted the AF. But it also erased the green box around the star, and I have no idea anymore which star it uses to AF for the...
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Zooming in the FITS viewer - by: DerPit
Am I the only one getting crazy when trying to zoom in on something in the FITS viewer? From other programs I'm used to put the mouse on top of a feature, then use the mouse wheel to zoom, keeping the...
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