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A beautiful clear sky today for a change ( see, buying a microscope made the cloud gods happy ).
I set the Lunt 60 up and had no problem finding the Sun, the main sunspot stood out well. Next I hooked up the camera and laptop but I couldn't get the camera to talk to the laptop,kept getting a message poster asking me to try another USB port. This was with both Sharpcap Pro and the Altair capture programme,. Looks like I'll be contacting Altair to find what's wrong.
Great to hear you finally got to at least see the sun!!!
Hope you get your USB thingy figured out.
Gordon
Scopes: Explore Scientific ED80CF, Skywatcher 200 Quattro Imaging Newt, SeeStar S50 for EAA.
Mounts: Orion Atlas EQ-g mount & Skywatcher EQ5 Pro.
ZWO mini guider.
Image cameras: ZWO ASI1600 MM Cool, ZWO ASI533mc-Pro, ZWO ASI174mm-C (for use with my Quark chromosphere), ZWO ASI120MC
Filters: LRGB, Ha 7nm, O-III 7nm, S-II 7nm
Eyepieces: a few.
Primary software: Cartes du Ciel, N.I.N.A, StarTools V1.4.
I am so glad to read that I'm not the only bod to have difficulties when the weather behaves.
I am very close to throwing my Lunt60 in the bin - it's been a bitter disappointment, especially when it's taken 3 weeks and counting for a replacement green bit to get here.
I'm increasingly tempted by a Quark, but as it's not (as far as I know) possible to remote manage it's safe!
I'll spend some time correcting a couple of flaws in the Obsy Shed - plus keeping regular wasp watch!
Just call me Geoff....
I do what I do because I can, and because I want to.
It doesn't mean I know what I'm doing
Altocumulus wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 6:42 am
I'm increasingly tempted by a Quark, but as it's not (as far as I know) possible to remote manage it's safe!
I'm pretty sure that Gordon images remotely with his Quark.
John (Urban Astronomer) Apertura AD10 Dob; XLT 150 Dob; XLT 120EQ; Lunt Solar 60 PT/B1200; ES AR102; SW Pro 100ED; 2 SW Pro 80ED's; 90mm Eq; WO Z-61; SW 90mm Virtuso Mak; 2 Orion ST-80's; Quark-C; Cams: Polemaster, ASI120MM-S, ASI174MM & ASI174MM-C
You're doing it again John - you're supposed to be dissuading me
ps - Faye says a filter is on its way from Germany... Posted on Monday (yesterday) - so why couldn't TH (UK) get me one when I asked 3 weeks ago - it's the same firm!!!!!
Just call me Geoff....
I do what I do because I can, and because I want to.
It doesn't mean I know what I'm doing
Altocumulus wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 6:42 am
I'm increasingly tempted by a Quark, but as it's not (as far as I know) possible to remote manage it's safe!
I'm pretty sure that Gordon images remotely with his Quark.
Yes, I do.
I have a laptop that I setup next to the scope (in a shaded spot1) that I can remotely run through my desktop inside my home. It takes a bit of testing to make sure that everything is working correctly (you don't want a 'run-away' mount!!!!) but I've been doing it for years and so far everything works great.
It's really nice in the summer when it's really hot outside to be able to sit in the air conditioned house sipping on a cold beverage and running everything remotely.
Gordon
Scopes: Explore Scientific ED80CF, Skywatcher 200 Quattro Imaging Newt, SeeStar S50 for EAA.
Mounts: Orion Atlas EQ-g mount & Skywatcher EQ5 Pro.
ZWO mini guider.
Image cameras: ZWO ASI1600 MM Cool, ZWO ASI533mc-Pro, ZWO ASI174mm-C (for use with my Quark chromosphere), ZWO ASI120MC
Filters: LRGB, Ha 7nm, O-III 7nm, S-II 7nm
Eyepieces: a few.
Primary software: Cartes du Ciel, N.I.N.A, StarTools V1.4.
