Matthew Nelson replied to the topic 'Ekos Planetary Imaging' in the forum. 2 months ago

AstroDMXCap is a fine program, but for what I'm doing I need a flexible sequencer. For a series
of targets, goto, platesolve, setup camera, start data at a given H:M:S, rinse, repeat up to 50 times
in a given night. I haven't worked with the Ekos scheduler in detail, but Ekos does support all these
functions, just not setting up a streaming data collection. Or does it?

Thanks,
Matt

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Matthew Nelson replied to the topic 'Ekos Planetary Imaging' in the forum. 6 months ago

I'm trying to establish occultation observing with Ekos, and while the streaming recording in .ser
format will work just fine I haven't been able to sort out how to build a sequence queue template
to use with the scheduler. Documentation and custom controls seem to indicate this is possible,
but I haven't been able to set this up. Is there documentation for setting up streaming from the
sequencer?

Thanks

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Matthew Nelson replied to the topic 'ST4 Relays NC for guiding' in the forum. 5 years ago

I had some Linux guiding software a few years ago which allowed the user to
set the polarity of the ST-4 switches. I was hoping that could be added to either
the camera device driver or as an option in the built in guiding for Ekos.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matthew Nelson created a new topic ' ST4 Relays NC for guiding' in the forum. 5 years ago

My telescope expects normally closed relays for operation on the guide inputs. Is there
any control over the ST4 port in the Ekos guide module for NC vs. NO operation?

Thanks,
Matt

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Matthew Nelson replied to the topic 'More precision in DATE-OBS' in the forum. 8 years ago

Thanks for the addition. I don't trust times, but with the mSec added I can start to quantify the delays and jitter.

Cheers

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Matthew Nelson created a new topic ' More precision in DATE-OBS' in the forum. 8 years ago

Is there any consideration for adding more precision to the integration start time in DATE-OBS?
I am hoping to use INDI with a large format CCD for moving object astrometry, but have to have
better than 1 second time tagging.

Cheers

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