Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
It's just an app that reads Meinberg files in graphic form that's a little bigger than the original. Well apparently you haven't read the major challenge, I repeat the offset is adjusted once the
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Saci
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Saci, You posted a chart from a program called ¡°NTP Plotter¡±. This looks like a measure of the offset between the system clock and a reference clock. The chart doesn¡¯t provide a lot of detail on
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Steve Preston
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
NMEATime2 does the same thing with the same precision as NTP Meinberg.
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Saci
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Steve, there is no latency with this system, it's 100% digital and the offset is adjusted after recording, that's precisely the major challenge. On the graph that I posted you see the tracking over a
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Saci
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Hello all, ??? I used a module with antenna. One can also attach an aerial. It has an LED wish flashes with the PPS, albeit not very bright. It has a PPS output on one of the pins, you could add an
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jerryrst
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Hi all Thanks for the interesting discussion. Another source of 1PPS flashes are GPS dongles such as the Ublox7 et al. Cheap off the self solutions. These should work with software such as NMEATime2
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smrussellau
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
¡°To Steve, there is a delay between the GPS time and the recording of the video, this is easily adjusted with a PPS LED flash. ¡± You can use the PPS signal of a GPS receiver to measure the
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Steve Preston
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
To Steve, there is a delay between the GPS time and the recording of the video, this is easily adjusted with a PPS LED flash.
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Saci
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Le dimanche 26 nov. 2023 ¨¤ 16?:19, Leonard Ward a ¨¦crit : <<Est-ce ainsi que les lignes devraient appara?tre dans le fichier de configuration ? Oui
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Saci
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Hi Karim; I thank you for your help. Is this the way the lines should appear in the config file? I have not determined the com port yet. # Add GPS clock server 127.127.20.3 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4 mode 16
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Leonard Ward
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
The short answer: Use a GPS flasher. NTP is not a good idea. Although it is possible to accurately synchronize the PC clock with UTC, you cannot easily guarantee enough accuracy with the timestamps
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Steve Preston
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Good morning, there are reliable solutions with a GPS module, the <<NTP Time Server Monitor>> software and the file configuration <<ntp-4.2.8p15-v2 >> from Meinberg on a recent PC. Just copy these few
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Leonard, Ive not seen any other responses to your question (so far), so i will add some food for thought. The purpose of GPS is to control the computer clock. You could look at the TIMEBOX which is a
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Tim Haymes
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Re: How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Hi Leonard, This can be done. ? Please join the IOTAoccultations group.io where there will be a lot of advice for you. Wishing you good observing. Tim (UK)
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Tim Haymes
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How to use a planetary camera for occultations
Hi, I would like to try occultation observing and provide data to upload. I would like to use a planetary camera that I have, ZWO ASI224MC,? but not sure how to get GPS time to it.
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Leonard Ward
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CentralEurope and Comets
CentralEurope is not a feed i can select, but i receive a lot of events.? ?What does it contain, that UKOCL, IBEROC and ITALOC don't contain? Also recently, ive not been getting some events that i
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Tim Haymes
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Re: OccultWatcher with last prediction ?
Hello Hristo, I was to quick :-) I will have a look if the problem comes again ... and then I will contact you. Somebody else had the same problem (Joachim) ... but I explained how I "solved" the
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Jean-Francois
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Re: OccultWatcher with last prediction ?
Hi Jean-Francois, You should not have to purge the database in OW Desktop. This is only an option for recovery of corrupted data. May be there was a bug and this is why your OW didn't update the
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hristo_dpavlov
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#379
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Re: OccultWatcher with last prediction ?
Hello, one point more ... I performed the manual deleting of the database in OccutlWatcher. And the result after an update ... OccultWatcher now uses the last prediction (see the image below). OK, now
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Jean-Francois
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#378
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OccultWatcher with last prediction ?
Hello, I remark the following ... OccultWatcher shows me some events in the shadow path, but OWCloud shows most of the time a different path (no more in the shadow). When does OccultWatcher actualise
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Jean-Francois
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#377
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