Re: M74 10 second exposure 10 stacks with UC18 and DS10cTEC
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Hi Richard. Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate the time and effort you put in to give me a very detailed step by step of your workflow. It really helps me to get a better understanding of what's necessary for me to move forward. Once again, thank?you for your time?and?efforts, Steve
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 12:25?AM Richard < rmille64@...> wrote: Steve, ? I went to the ASCOM site and download Peter¡¯s 32-bit driver for ServoCAT and installed it on the NUC. ? Stellarium also runs on the NUC and uses Peter¡¯s ASCOM driver to control the telescope.? ? The workflow for a night of remote observation is: ? - Boot the NUC that is attached to the telescope and confirm it connects to my home network.
- Boot my indoors laptop
- Launch Remote Desktop on the laptop
- Connect to the NUC via Microsoft Remote Desktop (the laptop becomes the keyboard and display for the NUC)
- Launch MallincamSKY (on the NUC)
- Rough Focus the camera
- Do a 2-star alignment as seen by the Mallincam camera with a manual push to the 2 stars
- Unclutch the ServoCAT motors
- Set Argo Navis to ¡°From Planetarium¡±
- Launch ¡°Play¡± from Primalucelab on the NUC to control my electronic focuser
- Install the Bahtinov mask and get perfect focus (no filters installed)
- Remove the Bahtinov mask
- Take the laptop to my recliner
- Project the laptop to the big screen TV wirelessly with the Intel WIDI system
- Launch Stellarium (which then launches the Virtual handpad)
- Fine tune the current location of the telescope as shown by Stellarium (it seems to always be off by a little bit).
- Select my target on stellarium and hit shift+F2 to slew the telescope remotely.
- Pop over to MallincamSky, center the target with the virtual handpad and start my live HDR stacking process.
- Save the file on the NUC and my laptop
- Goto step 13
? Hope this helps. ? Richard ? ? Hi Richard. So:
The AN/SC is attached to an ASCOM driver independent of the of the Eagle4S and NUC also running through the ASCOM driver?
That's how you switch between the two star alignment needed to run the AN/SC and the Eagle and NUC to use the Mallincam software , the camera and MS remote control (after the two star alignment)?
Whose ASCOM driver do you use?
Bear with me, the 'lightbulb over my head' is flickering.
Steve
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