I have been wondering about the effect of the full Moon’s light on images. In particular, there is a tempting thought that if your target…
The saga comes to a close… Celestron Help After talking to the Celestron Rep (Will) it sounds like I missed something when inserting the secondary.…
For a little while I have been getting strange diffraction spikes from the Edge 11/STF8300M system, as seen in the sub below. The brighter stars…
I have been using Sky Flats in ACP for some time. They work well, but have a couple of procedural limitations: I can’t always be…
I am busy building a dome controller to replace the Foster Systems unit. I call it BrewSpinDome, an Arduino based controller with a more precise…
Hmm, in the day or so since I updated the Foster Systems software to 2.4-1 they released 2.5-1. So, I went ahead and updated to…
There seems to be a bit of minor quibbling over the desired target level for taking Sky flats. The PixInsight forum suggested a Target ADU…
Updated AstroMC/B6 from 2.3.1 to 2.4.1/B8. I am hoping this will eliminate the recent spate of ACP disconnects because “dome is already slewing”. This began…
The continuing saga of the shutter controller… In the process of testing capacitors on my controller, I somehow managed to plug power in backwards. Thought…
The shutter is still having trouble closing. Opening is always fine, but sometimes the close operation fails. The lower shutter gets power, but never moves.…