EQMod and EQ8 AutoHome - by: gerryr
Gotta say, this feature is 'like magic'. The situation today, dome is 400 feet from the house, and I was slewing in various directions to try validate more changes to dome slaving. With the telescope...
View ArticleHistogram viewer - by: universe24
I use Canon DSLR and EKOS to control it. I wonder if histogram viewer feature could be add on in the future update? The histogram viewer is very useful to determine wether an exposure duration is long...
View ArticleSettings in focus module not saved - by: boulabytes
Hi everyboby, When I use autofocus I set some differents values in several parameters, typically, exposition time, number of images to average but each time launch kstars those parameters are reseted....
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Sequence with multiple filters cause unneeded filter change - by: boulabytes
Hi, If create a sequence file defining several exposure with different filters and if this too long to be perform over one night, there is a strange behaviour. I give you an example : Let's say I set a...
View ArticleTry as I might I cannot get Indiwebmanager setup - by: Horus Astro
I am trying to setup a remote Indi server on a Pi3. Following the various tutorials, none of which are consistent, I have got to the point of trying to autostart the Indiwebmanager. I have followed the...
View ArticleRadio astronomy - by: Horus Astro
Love this idea. Already have a SDR so please say where we/I can find out more. Regards.
View ArticleINDI 1.5.0 binaries for Stretch - by: freiform
Hi, is anyone aware of binaries for (Debian) Raspbian Stretch? Just wanted to ask before I compile myself. Thank you
View ArticleCheck location before saving to avoid crash... - by: maudy
Hi, Is it possible to add a catch/warning for sequence files trying to save files to a location that does not exist? Last night things went ok. Still working through some issues with everything running...
View ArticleLive video settings and issues - by: xsnrg
Using some live video today with an ASI290MC, watching the sun. When changing the exposure time in the CCD and Filter Wheel tab, the changes are not picked up by the live video until you a preview. It...
View ArticleGithub and OSX KStars - by: supernov
Is it possible to pull the latest Kstars for OSX from GitHub? I've been looking for it, but can't seem to get it to clone into Xcode for some reason.
View ArticleNew to autofocus - by: danoid
Moonlite appears to be functioning correctly, I'm able to take and download multiple photos with my DSLR (as a GPhoto CCD). But autofocus hangs on first image. Does the image type NEED to be FITS?...
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A new class of telescope-camera system - by: VTVL
Yesterday (9-09-2017) at the AME 2017 in Germany I saw an exhibit of a new type of telescope system. It had no means to use an eyepiece or external camera! Indeed there were no add-ons foreseen for the...
View ArticleSecond and Subsequent Guider Calibration Attempts Fail - by: mrnetdes
I was able to complete the guider calibration routine and start guiding, just as a test. I then moved to another part of the sky and thought I should run another guider calibration. The second and all...
View ArticleDSI PRO 2 capture tutorial. - by: timsdeepsky
Greetings, Is there a specific tutorial for capturing from a DSI PRO 2 in Ekos on Ubuntu 16.04?.... I have the drivers and Kstars bleeding installed.... I could get an image working the other night in...
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About manual focuser lost focus - by: zhouzc
I have found that if using autofocus, there is an option "Autofocus if HFR >", it's quite useful. But if I use a manual focuser, is it possible to make some alarm when ekos found that the focuser...
View ArticleHelp with needing to park to unpark... - by: maudy
My last two imaging sessions, something went awry. First time I thought it was me. Second time, it might still be me, yet I thought I would reach out. Symptom: After polar aligning and star aligning my...
View Articleerror version? - by: anofeles
Good night. I just downloaded the latest version of the program (2.8.3) for MAC from here but when I access the kstars->about, it still puts 2.8.2 Greetings and thank you for your efforts.
View ArticleKStars 2.8.3 "Tommy" is released! - by: knro
So KStars 2.8.3 aka "Tommy" is out. The MacOS release is still yet pending due to last-minute problems which should hopefully be resolved tonight. It is mainly a bugfix release, but one the main...
View ArticleAlt / Az telescopes mounted on an Equatorial wedge - by: Astrodan
Hello, I am trying to use the Celestron GPS driver, but, KStars appears to not calculate the RA, DEC values for the position. And, the driver does not have any provision for Celestron Alt / Az mounts...
View ArticleQHY driver not recognizing Color version of QHY9 camera. - by: Astrodan
Hello The QHY driver appears not to recognize that QHY9 cameras exist in, both, monochrome and color. KStars reports camera as -m which I assume means the driver can not debayer color images? No...
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