Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmCanon XSi 350D w/ IR Mod Raspberry PI4 w/ Astroberry Orion 50mm Guidescope ZWO ASI290mm mini RedCat51 Skywatcher AZ-GTi

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmATIK 383L+ Mono Raspberry PI4 w/ Astroberry Orion 50mm Guidescope ZWO ASI290mm mini RedCat51 Skywatcher HEQ5-Pro w/ Rowan Mod ZWO EAF ZWO EFW

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmATIK 383L+ Color Raspberry PI4 w/ Astroberry Orion 50mm Guidescope ZWO ASI290mm mini RedCat51 Skywatcher HEQ5-Pro w/ Rowan Mod ZWO EAF

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pm

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pm

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pm

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pm

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pm

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pm

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Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmLast session ended in failure with the new filter wheel greatly increasing the amount of back focus. I ran out of focuser travel which stopped my last session. I found an M48 to M42 small adapter and had to wait another 2 days while amazon shipped the […]

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmSo continuing on from last night success I have some pretty crappy skies still so going to look at running the Star solver locally on my Mac and this was not the start I was hoping for. So I updated the Ansible scripts to install astrometry-net Astropy […]

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmSo we have had crappy weather in Florida for like a month now. Waiting on the new mount and weather I have worked on integrating a few new things into my setup. This post will add a weather service to the configuration. Wunderground has discontinued their free […]

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmI am not going to be using a real GPS device however I would like the GPS device to appear to be there. You can use your iPhone or Android device to get your location and enter it using the python script that is provided with the […]

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmNo stars being photographed as I have to pay for the clouds that come with new equipment. Clouds roll in with thunderstorms every night around 7pm amazing. So with the down time, I have been able to focus on integrating some new components into the system and […]

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmStarting Equipment from my First Generation Rig: RedCat 51 ZWO ASI290mm Guide Camera Raspberry Pi4 w/ Astroberry Onesky 130mm telescope Hardware Requirements In total we want the hardware connected to the mount to be less than 22lbs. The mount will handle about 30lbs and you don’t want to […]

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmOverview OTAs Explore Scientific ED80 – 5.95lbs, 480mm, f/6, $649 Orion ED80T CF – 5.5lbs, 480mm, f/6 William Optics RedCat 51 3.2lbs, 250mm, f/4.9, $728 Sky-Watcher Esprit 100 – 13.9lbs, 550mm, f/5.5 William Optics Zenithstar 73 APO – 5.5lbs, 430mm, f/5.9 Main Cameras Canon Rebel XSi – 19oz Eq Wedge William Optics – […]

Last updated on February 27th, 2022 at 09:06 pmCameras Kodak 8300 CCD cameras SBIG STF-8300 ATIK 383L + Mono QSI 660wsg Sony CCD Cameras Starlight Trius Pro 694 Mono  CMOS Cameras ZWO ASI1600 Starlight 294 Starlight 304 What did I choose ATIK 383L+ My budget for the camera and filter wheel (no filters) will be […]