Paul Wilcox replied to the topic 'Tracking not effective' in the forum. 4 years ago

Hi dmsunmmers

Thanks for the comprehensive checklist and guidance. I'll definitely work through your suggestions and let you know.

Appreciate the help

Paul

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Paul Wilcox created a new topic ' Tracking not effective' in the forum. 4 years ago

Hi

Could be something I'm doing, but my NEQ6 hooked up to EKOS on an rPi just doesn't seem to be tracking as it should. Everything is working perfectly, however I always use guiding. Which seems to work quite hard, but it's effective. However when I turn guiding off to photograph for example the moon, even though it says that tracking is on, it moves across the frame over the space of a few minutes. The mount is polar aligned through SharpCap to within seconds. This happens even when I have done a plate solve or two earlier in the session.

Would appreciate any guidance, can't think of any other detail I can give.

Thanks

Paul

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That was exactly it!!!

Thank you. Once I pointed it to astrometry.cfg it all works!

Thanks again

Paul

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Good question, and I feel dumb for not trying that! Will check tonight. I have since gone back to Stellarmate and updated to the latest version and it does seem to have lowered the numbers considerably. Will check and let you know. Thanks for the quick reply!

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Hi

I'm having an issue installing Astrometry .fits files. I can't click the check boxes to download the files in the "Options" section.

Any ideas what could be the issue?

Have tried to use ASTAP instead or Astro.net online with limited success

I know it's broad question, but I can;'t think of what other info to give. Hoping it's a common user error

Thanks

Paul

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Hi

I have tried a number of different incarnations of KStars/Ekos installs, including Stellarmate, Astroberry and Rons L's scripts, to no avail.

I'm running on a RPi4, with either a MAC or Windows machine running at the client side. Everything seems to be working well, however when I take an image with my QHY183C camera, it either takes MANY minutes to transfer across to the client or it just hangs completely. For processes like platesolving this just doesn't cut it.

If I VNC into the machine, then it happen in seconds, however using VNC is a nightmare with lag.

My ASI120MM works quicker (which I would expect with the smaller filesize), but I can't see how because it's 30MB file it could be this slow.

Has anybody seen this before, I seem to be chasing my tail

Thanks

Paul

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