Guiding by main camera is little disguised now )) I will change this in the future to make it more clear.



This means 1) AstraLite will run mount calibration after tacking first light frame, 2) will correct mount position after each light frame if stars move more than 5 pixels relative of first frame

Also I can insert checkbox to make INDI properties tabs standard.

What OS are you using? AstraLite uses current GTK theme in Linux and also allows to select theme (light/dark) in MS Windows.

I would agree with Euripides in the comment.....
I hope that all of you guys will have the time one day to improve Ekos with your ideas and programming skills. For example I am looking your GUI and I wish I could have the ability to have my Ekos like this.

Here is my WISHLIST: I would like to see Ekos with the ability for external modules, so that others can add these components and be independent (if they so decide).

Hi @Jasem
I think you should ask the users if they would prefer a UI change in Ekos and in my opinion most will be in favour of it. I agree Ekos has a dated UI and the work done by Denis for Astralite is the way forward for UI.

I use Linux Mint 20.4 and higher on my PC and Ubuntu MATE on the RPi.
What I wanted to say is that I didn't find any place to declare the guiding camera and guiding optic when guiding in parallel (what I am doing).

Now Astralite only supports simple guiding by main camera (not with separate guiding camera). Read description in first post.

My telescope setup doesn't include guiding camera so I don't plan to make guiding camera support in the near future

Too bad, so I will continue using Ekos but will follow the evolution of your project.

Hi @Denis,
does "Simple guiding" as describe in your post, works with Live Stacking, too?
I'm using 0.0.93 and when I start Live Stacking with "Correct mount position.." enabled it always stops after the first frame.
So it is not possible for me to make a series of frames for Live Stacking.

Hi,
Simple guiding works both with live stacking and tacking frames. After first frame has taken the program should enter mount calibration mode. During this calibration mode program gives standard guiding commands to the mount and see how stars move in frame. For me calibration mode takes about one minute or two.

You can set verbose log level (from options menu) and and try again and upload last log here in forum. To open log folder use "Open logs folder" item in Help menu

I will give it a try when it's possible for me again.
One more question: do I have to stop tracking in EKOS when I want to use Simple Guiding in AstraLite?
My workflow is:
1. GoTo and track objects in KStars/EKOS
2. Start LiveStacking in AstraLite

So to connection to IndiServer are open at the same time.
Is this okay?

Yes, tracking is required and must be on

I'm thinking about how PHD2 and AstraLite can work together. The main problem is AstraLite have to inform PHD2 to stop guiding when AstraLite does dithering and to start guiding when dithering is finished. How to do it?

A quick dig into the kstars code (in phd2.cpp) shows that PHD2 exposes a JSON command interface. This is how kstars interacts with it. github.com/KDE/kstars/blob/master/kstars...ternalguide/phd2.cpp