Another night of bad weather... crazy winds and a 30°F temperature drop this afternoon (hence the winds).  On the plus side, once the winds die down, I won't need to cool the camera!

When you guys are using INDI (e.g., StellarMate), are you running everything on the Raspberry Pi, or are you using the Pi as an INDI server and then running remotely?  I ask because I have been running KStars/Ekos on my Mac and then connecting to my Raspberry Pi as a server.  I was wondering if the communications delays between the Mac and the Pi might cause some of the issues I'm seeing (perhaps too much time to think since I can't be out trying things).  I'm assuming that the guiding software runs on the client (i.e., the Mac) with input from the server (the 0.5s exposures) and then sends it results to the server (i.e., the Pi).  Note that I do have the Pi hardwired to ethernet (I've learned that the Pi is not the most reliable in terms of WiFi connection...) and the Mac is on WiFi (5GHz, usually 500MBs or faster—strong signal)

I'm hoping for clear skis later this week, but it looks like it may be a few days.

Thanks,
Greg
 

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