- ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS MANUAL
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- ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS SERIES
- ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS SIMULATOR
I told Steppenwolf - I put the importance of plate solving up equal to good autoguiding.
ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS MANUAL
It made the whole session so much more fun without the aggravation of the manual 3-star alignment. Later when I went to Triangulum, CDC nailed it without any additional slewing by AT after the first solve. I was able to get the camera on the scope from the beginning and get it focused right after I did the polar alignment. When I then went to my first imaging target, there was Andromeda right in the middle of the camera screen.
Polaris moved from left of center, to dead on. I could then hear the mount shift a bit, and the click of the camera shutter again. Told AT to solve - 12 seconds later bingo. After the polar alignment, I activated all the software, slewed to Polaris just to see. What a difference not having to struggle with that first alignment. I'll let you know how I make out tonight. He is quite an accomplished educator who has a passion for teaching that is refreshing. I had no idea they were making mirrors there, 9+ meter's in diameter in a facility under the football stadium. Impey is originally from the UK, but has been at the University of Arizona since 1986 (we've managed to scrub his accent - lol). Chris Impey, really got me fired up about the universe. The Coursera program I took this past winter, Exploring Time and Space, taught by a wonderful instructor, Dr. Just seeing the images that I have managed to get so far (M33 and M31), seeing the planets thru the eye piece gives one a different feeling than looking at pictures or videos.
ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS SOFTWARE
That's what I am loving about this hobby - so much to learn not only the various software tools, the hardware, the imaging, but about the universe. If I can get this image to solve, there were others that I had taken at less exposures and perhaps I can get a feel for the right exposure setting before the next time I can get out (darn Kentucky weather has really sucked this month!).
ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS SIMULATOR
I've not tried the simulator mode option - I always have gotten the mount set up with the laptop - no scope on it. I do really appreciate the time you took to do this. Steve (Steppenwolf) had recommended SGL as a very good place to seek help and exchange information - and he was spot on. I'll have to convert it to a jpg - its RAW. Thanks for your help - I'll try it again - and post the last image I taken during on the plate solving. The image below is not mine - its what came up when I input the equipment info and what target I was interested in at this site - .īut I will try when I get home. Next opportunity I will change the downscaling to match your value. I've searched the manual, their website, forums to see if there was any information on it that indicated it was less than 1.0. The only uncertainity I had is the Sky-Watcher field flatner. As far as the equipment info, here is the result which I used as the FOV (don't remember what site this was from - so forgive me there). The number of stars was varying from the low hundreds when I had the exposure down to 5 seconds to the thousands at the 30 sec. When I get home, I will run the image from the above screenshop thru. This one I think was on Vega.Īny help or suggestions would be most appreciated. Nothing seems to work to arrive at a solution. I have tweaked the settings per the tutorial, including trying the different options the author suggested, including going back and installing the Tycho 2 indexes for FOV over 3 degrees. I tried various exposure times from 5s up to 30s. I looked at the images that BYEOS was taking - you can clearly see the star field. Its tracking as you can see from the image below.
ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS SERIES
Looking at the log it goes thru a whole series of FITs looking for the match and can never solve. I check the two boxes in the Action blco - to sync and reslew to target. Go to the AT screen, connect to the mount, click on setup for the camera and set the iso, then the exposure time. My start up process, after polar alignment, is to power down the mount, start CDC, power the mount up, connect to the mount. I have made sure that all three pieces of software are using the same EPOCH settings - JNOW.
I installed Astrotorilla 0.7 per the instructions on lightvortexastronomy - , including all the index files that fit the calculated FOV and the 20% FOV.
ASTROTORTILLA BACKYARDEOS PC
I am controlling the mount (EQ-6 Pro) via a PC laptop using ASCOM (EqMod). I am using CDC and Backyard EOS, so Astrotortilla seemed like the best option. I'm still climbing a learning curve - and while I've gotten some of the 3-star alignment issues resolved that I was having, I really want to get plate solving working.