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Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

Here it is:



It would be possible to use your primary scope. I could turn off the 1-degree requirement to allow for testing and see if that works. However, correcting the mount error in a small FOV is also challenging nevertheless.

EDIT: Ok I made it 30 arcminutes, so we'll see if it can work with that. It didn't on my system and I have > 50 arcmins FOV.
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Replied by pauledd on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

Thanks for the nice video! My questions are gone.

Edit:
My primary scope has a fov of 140x93 arcmin so that should work, I can hardly wait to test it :silly:
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Replied by Anders Lange on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

Hi Jasem

Fantastic new feature, that has been awaited for a long time, thanks a lot :-)

With my current setup, I have a FOV of 1.15° x 0.86° on my guide-scope (TS Deluxe 60mm Guide Scope, 240mm focal length + ZWO ASI 120MM).
So I guess it would work with the limitations of the Astrometry.net solver.

However, I've already invested in the QHY CCD Polemaster, in order to make my polar alignment routine fast and easy.
Sadly it only works on Windows (and Mac, in a beta version).
I would very much like to re-use the polemaster camera itself, on linux, but with the EKOS software...

So I'm now wondering if anyone have had any luck getting the polemaster camera to work on linux???
If not, are there anybody who could give me some pointers on how to get it to run...? I've tried with gphoto2, but so far with no success.

Ubuntu detects the camera, but doesn't recognize it, so I guess it doesn't load any driver for it...

dmesg log look like this:
[ 2532.439768] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[ 2532.532485] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1618, idProduct=0940
[ 2532.532496] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber

lsusb -t output:
/:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 5000M
/:  Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 480M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 1.5M
/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/3p, 480M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/8p, 480M
        |__ Port 2: Dev 7, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=, 480M     <- (this is the QHY CCD Polemaster camera)
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 10, Class=CDC Data, Driver=cdc_acm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Communications, Driver=, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 1, Class=Communications, Driver=cdc_acm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 2, Class=CDC Data, Driver=cdc_acm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 3, Class=Communications, Driver=cdc_acm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 4, Class=CDC Data, Driver=cdc_acm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 5, Class=Communications, Driver=cdc_wdm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 6, Class=Communications, Driver=cdc_ncm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 7, Class=CDC Data, Driver=cdc_ncm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 8, Class=Communications, Driver=cdc_wdm, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 9, Class=Communications, Driver=cdc_acm, 480M
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/3p, 480M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/6p, 480M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 1, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 2, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=, 12M
        |__ Port 4: Dev 3, If 3, Class=Application Specific Interface, Driver=, 12M
        |__ Port 6: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
        |__ Port 6: Dev 4, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

You'll have to directly contact QHY to request support, it's not supported by the SDK. Also, even if the camera works, you would still need software for polar alignment, so most likely you'd be using Ekos PAA
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Replied by Anders Lange on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

Hi Jasem

I definitely intend to be using the Ekos PAA. I would just like to be able to do it using the Polemaster hardware, so my investment in this piece of equipment hasn't been invain ;-)

I'll try to contact QHY to see if they will be able to provide a linux device driver for the camera.
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Replied by Kevin gurney on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

I am in the same situation (Polemaster owner, wanting to use it with new polar align software advertised here).
I have posted on the QHY forum.

Kevin
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Replied by julian J griffiths on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

So far so good, I am very impressed by this feature. It does crash a lot but this is a beta version. They issue i have is now my fits images are very green, using a can 40D, before the colours were good, now very green.

Keep up the great work.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

KStars Options --> Advanced: Turn off both Auto Debayer & 3D Cube. If there is crash, please submit GDB backtrace as per instructions in my signature. Thanks for testing it!
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Replied by julian J griffiths on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

Which version is this and can we get daily updates?
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

It's the same PPA version.
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Replied by pauledd on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

is the beta available in the official git repository of kstars? I just compiled from git but I can see not the new Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant.
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Replied by pauledd on topic Ekos Polar Alignment Assistant (Beta) is here!

sorry! forgot to "make install" :blush:
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