![]() Nevertheless, there are some effects, that raises some questions: ![]() I need to find a longer power cable for the focusser. At the end, one cable was too short and stopped the mount moving for M31 being at < 40°, and the session was over. I used the Guider-Paper from IndigoSky to understand the parameters, and guiding qualitiy was much better. And I think, M42 is again better than last time. With this environment setup, and after recognizing, that I need to delete all the aligment points from last week, I could again do some shots of M42, Plejades and M31. I was able to correct the aligment to a error value around ~2, wich I think is quite ok, isn't it? You can see two pictures of the wide field containing the Polaris near the correct position, and in the third image a ROI - image containing the polaris at the correct position.Īfter this, I tested the new polar alignment function of IndigoSky. I uploaded (if there is someone interested in the pre-Aligment by the Raspberry Pi-Camera) a picture of the PiCam. I also used the new polar alignment sheet in the Imager. Only after deleting all the aligmentment points in the Control-Application, the mount was able to position correctly.Īt the end, I made it work again, I learned a lot. I had to learn, that this is an important Maybe it is an improvement, if there is a possibility to reinit a mount (delete all old aligments) from the imager. After new commissioning of the mount, it tells me in a small sentence "There are active saved alignent points. Because of some rain and stormy weather in the last days I had to move the mount to a save place. Here I had to learn some things about mount handling. Before I started the update of the IndigoSky, and voila: A new indigo was available With PolarAligmnent-Tool!!!! Great! Yesterday, there as again a good possibility to train myself on the indigoSky environment. Nevertheless, I am absolutelly excited about this IndigoSky and want to show my respect for this cool stuff! On the internet I found someone having a polar alignment sheet in the telescope control, I haven't found this in my indigo (self compiled, on latest sources) I think I must learn more about the guiding algorithm, and maybe this is a polar alignment problem? Or is my mount not able to do better? And especially at the beginning, the star drifted out of the cross in DEC south direction. I could reduce the oscillaton amplitude by reducing the P-Parameter, but I couldn't eliminate it. Is this a camera quality problem or is it just normal?ī) The guiding had some issues with the declination to south, the blue line shows huge oscillation to the top, red line was quite ok. Nevertheless, I am wondering about some things:Ī) The svbony (I set it at the end to 500 ms exposure time) sometimes show blind frames, or frames seems to be interrupted, so guiding may loose the star because of some lost frames. What I am also wondering about this is the light glow at the right border, is this a CCD-failure or could I reduce this? So at the end, Indigo worked very well, I could make one very nice picture of the orion nebula (link at the end). My remote screen was an old Samsung Pad with vnc, this is quite ok for working directly at the machine. This is really a game changer for my equipment! This was very successful, the goto worked well after first sync and very well after second solve & sync and very very well after third solve and sync. Nevertheless, a calibration was done.Īfter finishing this, I tried to use solving for the mount synchronisation. Here I was wondering, why the polar align distance is always 90, later I think I understood, that the mount position was not set. I started to calibrate my guiding nearly at the polaris. Ok, I started AIN-Imager to connect to my equipment:Īll worked fine. I was just wondering why the position was not 100% stable at the beginning, could be a mount problem (ground stability?) Polaris was visible and I was able to put it into the correct position. Īt the end I build a small python script using pygame to use the RPI cam as polar aligment cam, and I think, this was quite successful. Intergrating the libCameraApp-classes into a indigoSky-ccd-driver does not fit in some aspects (e.g I had problems with memory management) and the free camera linux driver seems to be limited. I tried to understand the new debian bullseye libCamera, and how to adapt this to a indigoSky driver, but this seems to be quite complicate. In the past I made some experiments using the Rasp Camera V2 for polar alignment. Yesterday there was the first clear sky since month, so I put my telescope setup to my garden and tried to use my RPI with indigoSky.
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