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Moon/planetary imaging workflow - by: TallFurryMan
Recently I had very decent results imaging the Moon with Ekos, albeit with a manual procedure. It is probably overkill, but it might be interesting to package this into an automated method for other...
View ArticleNew Gemini SnapCap driver - by: knro
Jarno Paananen developed a new INDI driver for Gemini http://www.geminitelescope.com/snapcap-motorized-tube-ota-cap/SnapCap motorized OTA cap. It's quite similar to FlipFlat which I already own....
View ArticleSurvey type work, seeking right approach - by: rankinstudio
New user to KStars, Ekos, INDI here. What an awesome idea and thank you all who contribute for making this an option and free!!!! I am fairly good with python, and seeking some advice on the best way...
View ArticleTrouble with Ekos - by: bj0
Trouble with Ekos: This past weekend I had a full night to try out an imaging run with KStars/Ekos/Indi on Ubuntu 17.04. While I did get a good number of Images I also had a fair number of issues. I...
View ArticleCCD Simulator - Max CCD resolution - by: Gilles
Hi, i've noticed simulator_CCD resolution is limited to 4096 : Is there any technical reason for that ? => some of us would like to play with astrometry with a fake DSLR, wich goes further than 4096...
View ArticleCant select local solver - by: rankinstudio
I followed the instructions to get the local astrometry.net solver going, but selecting "local" is not an option for me? I have moved all of the index files i need to the /usr/share/astrometry folder....
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installing indiweb on Rock64 fails - by: wimvb
Hi, I'm trying to install indi on a Rock64 single board computer with Ubuntu. So far I've managed to get indi running on this machine (and connecting to Ekos/Kstars on my windows laptop), but when I...
View ArticleTCFS focuser stopped working - driver fails to load - by: kengs
I just got myself a nice new Optec TCF-Si focuser. Hooked it all up and tested on windows with no problems. So next test was to use it with INDI last night. I was using Kstars on my Windows 8.1 PC...
View ArticleFocus issue - by: rankinstudio
I have got most of this figured out, its quite awesome to be sitting in bed as images are streaming in onto my laptop... I have found one issue I think. I use a robofocus. When the auto focus is...
View ArticleAstrometry.cfg - by: anofeles
Good night. I have kstars installed in OSX 10.12.6 I read that the kstars installation already has astrometry and there is no need to install it. In online mode it has always worked well for me, but it...
View ArticleIndi on the rocks (a Rock64 to be exact) - by: wimvb
Sorry, just couldn't resist the pun. Here's a short write up of how I installed indi and the web manager on the Rock64 (2GB) from pine64.org Rock64 ubuntu installation download of a Linux image to my...
View ArticleDatyson T7M - by: nmac
I have received my T7M, it works as an ASI120MM with INDI but I am having a problem. It seems ST4 outputs are switched???? When I calibrate, first it starts RA Forward but it moves left (DEC Forward)...
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KSTARS setting to wrong time after GPSD update - by: SparkyHT
Well after a Sunday afternoon of research and testing, I found a way to set the system time on my OFFLINE RPI3 with GPSD at boot using CHRONY. It's reliable and sets the system time within a minute and...
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installing indiweb on Rock64 fails - SOLVED - by: wimvb
Hi, I'm trying to install indi on a Rock64 single board computer with Ubuntu. So far I've managed to get indi running on this machine (and connecting to Ekos/Kstars on my windows laptop), but when I...
View ArticleProblem Compiling on MacOS - by: ColoradoSolar
I am trying to build the latest kstars using the kstars-on-osx script and I am having an issue with "make fetch-translations". I am getting the error that no target found. I have the latest...
View Articlekstars sound notifications not working in Linux Mint Cinnamon - by: myxlflik
Exactly as the description says, The sound notifications are not working in Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon edition. In fact, I have never heard a sound out of kstars on my Linux Mint installs. I know sound...
View ArticleAtik 383L+ buffer size causing SX Lodestar X2 to timeout - by: jpaana
I solved my problem so this is just a heads up if someone else happens to bump in to the same issue. I recently moved from Raspberry Pi 3 to X86 based Udoo X86 Ultra minipc for my imaging and for some...
View ArticleKStars 2.8.7 released! - by: knro
KStars 2.8.7 is now available for all platforms! For more details, check my blog post here: knro.blogspot.com/2017/10/kstars-287-released.html
View ArticleFocus module settings not saved? - by: mlarsson
Hi! I have a small but quite irritating issue: THe default exposure time in my focus module is set to 0.5 secs, and this is too short for my camera. And I seem not to be able to change it. I use a...
View Articlechange account email? - by: pauledd
Hi there Sorry for posting this here but there is nothing like an off-topic / non-indi cathegory. After years of getting spammed by my free mail provider I am going to change to my own domain email....
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