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kstars strange marker - by: DerPit
Sorry for the stupid question I noticed a strange double marker centered on the Dumbbell Nebula: and I have no idea where it's coming from. I right-clicked to check labels and flags, but it doesn't...
View ArticleNew-ish astrometry.net and Ekos - by: papaf76
Hi all, yesterday evening I used the new notebook which I installed Ubuntu 18.04 onto. To my surprise, plate solving would not work because Ekos invokes the solver with the now deprecated - -...
View ArticleQHY5 PHD Guiding Issue - by: astro31
Hi , i use an QHY 5R camera for guiding , it is recognized by Stellarmate i can make some pictures but xhen i launch PHD2 and select QHY 5 camera i have this message Libusb failed to open camera QHY5...
View Articlescheduler: no frame update or dither after frame download - by: alacant
Hi everyone Last night we were fine up to frame 21. Then the scheduler did not update the frame count and no dither was performed. The error in capture said that the frame was being redone 'attempt #1'...
View ArticleCould we have hour angle on the ekos summary screen? - by: alacant
Cheers and clear skies, Steve
View Articleqhy5 guider stop to works after latest indi updates - by: astropaul
Hi to all. I'm using indi on my raspberry PI3 (ubuntu mate 16.04). After to have updated to latest version all indi packages my QHY5 is not more able to works well. Before the upgarde with 2 seconds of...
View ArticleAstroPhysicsExperimental pulse guiding - by: wotalota
I have failures with pulse guiding while ST4 works using the internal guider, previous experience is that pulse guiding also fails using PHD2. Fedora 29 Kstars 3.0.0 Build: 2018-12-07 3.0.0-32.4 INDI:...
View ArticlePHD2 setup question - by: wotalota
When setting up to use PHD2 to test pulse guiding using AstroPhysicsExperimental I stumble using the PHD2 wizard. The first screenshot shows the dialog boxes encountered when selecting guiding through...
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If autofocus fails it loses the star marker :( - by: DerPit
I just had a failing autofocus. So it went back to initial focus, and restarted the AF. But it also erased the green box around the star, and I have no idea anymore which star it uses to AF for the...
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Zooming in the FITS viewer - by: DerPit
Am I the only one getting crazy when trying to zoom in on something in the FITS viewer? From other programs I'm used to put the mouse on top of a feature, then use the mouse wheel to zoom, keeping the...
View ArticleCommunity Website down? - by: HelgeMK
Hi, for two days the community website is no more accessible - any problems? best, Helge
View ArticleInternal guiding subpixel - by: papaf76
Hi, is the internal guiding software capable of subpixel detection as is the case for PHD/PHD2? If so, what's the limit for the movement detection? I seem to recall the default PHD configuration sets...
View Articleplatesolve local using cr2 raw format files ? - by: stash
Is it possible to automatically platesolve(Align module) using Canon raw images (CR2) - looked at options but load and slew appears to look for Fits only. Yes I know I can convert to FITS or JPG for...
View ArticleKstars crashes - by: okhoydal
Kstars (and Ekos) crashes at least 2 times every observation evening. There is nothing in the logs directory. I run Kstars Version 2.9.8 Build 2018-08-17T17:48:27Z under Windows 10. Indi runs on...
View ArticleMissing timestamp in FITS Header - by: the.cakemaker
Today i wanted to stack my Wirtanen pictures with PixInsight. Unfortunately the "comet-Align" module refused to load my Moravian G2 Pictures with the alert "unknown failure" As a friend and i found out...
View ArticleStellarmate OS - RTC - by: rishigarrod
Hi. This is my first post so I hope its in the correct forum. I have the Stellarmate OS installed on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. Its all working really well but I do have an issue with the RTC I have added to...
View ArticleEKOS crash on manual dither - by: DerPit
I can reproducibly crash EKOS/KStars by hitting the 'Manual Dither' Button in the Guide tab (I'm guiding external with PHD2) while guiding (no sequence running). Dither from within a sequence (and also...
View ArticleHELP: Cooling of ASI stops 1.5C before target temp (ASI1600MM) - by: astroback
I have encountered the problem that INDI/EKOS does not communicate properly with my ZWO ASI1600MM PRO. If I set cooling (in ccd menu or in EKOS or INDI control panel, no difference) to (lets say) 0°C...
View ArticleSaving pictures on DSLR SD card - by: Carles Dalmau
First of all i'd like to apologize if this topic is too basic and somewhere explained, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm learning how to use Ekos to control my Nikon D3400 and I can't find any...
View Articlescheduler does not slew, align or guide - by: alacant
Hi. Latest nightly. Logs attached. Thanks
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