The Issue When Scheduler is running, clouds can come in and disrupt operations. Obviously the threat of rain applies, but it also seems worthless to…
I have finally added Scheduler to the observatory. I have been fixing niggling hardware issues, writing scripts, and so on to get Scheduler going. Dome…
I have tried a variety of devices in an effort to have flat panel flats in the dome. All were failures: White cardboard square mounted…
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…
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…
Introduction While trying to process some images taken with my SBig STF-8300M in PixInsight I was encountering problems; PI would not correctly read images from…
ACP provides a neat feature where you can get a no-ip address which allows you to access your observatory using a unique name (mine is…
I have been having an irregular problem where ACP imaging would fail when Maxim gets hung on reading the camera. I start an imaging run…
For months, I have been having trouble with FocusMax / ACP interaction problems. The Problem FocusMax (3.8.0.15) keeps crashing with the typical “Object not set”…
Thinking about the effects of combining SubFrameSelector approved frames (versus using all the eye-balled frames), and the effect of drizzling. I was looking specifically at…