Re: Controlling Losmandy GM811 with ASIAir Plus or Pro
A raspberry 4 with either the astroberry distro, or the stellarmate distro works great. It's not exactly the same as the asiair, but it's the same general software stack and hardware. --
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Jamie Amendolagine
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Re: Usability Question
Interesting extension, how did you align the guide camera to the narrow field main camera? It also seems like a pretty small guide scope should work and provide a larger field.? At least with a small
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WayBack
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Re: Losmandy mount adapter on amart
Ross, Did not find your ad. I see folks paying $80 or more $ on Astromart for this item. I wonder if they know they are in stock here with free shipping. I just bought one.
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Peter Boreland
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Re: Usability Question
Following up my comment on using plate solving, I am setting up a new planetary telescope: Edge HD11 with an ASI462mc planetary camera and 2-3x barlow (2x used in this example). The imaging fov is
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Brian Valente
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Losmandy mount adapter on amart
Hi guys these items are not in stock when i looked on the losmandy site last week. So if you want one, i have an ad on astromart. Ross
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Ross Elkins
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Re: Usability Question
Dereck, 6 arc minutes is a tiny FOV, I would align with a lower power eyepiece and then swap if for a higher power. Paul That¡¯s what I said in the post you responded to! It says.. *** I used a
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Derek C Breit
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Re: Controlling Losmandy GM811 with ASIAir Plus or Pro
I¡¯m sorry, I meant to say that the ASIAir plus is backordered, not the iPhones or iPads!! Darryl From: <[email protected]> on behalf of "Brian Valente via groups.io"
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zetapuppi
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Re: Usability Question
Dereck, 6 arc minutes is a tiny FOV, I would align with a lower power eyepiece and then swap if for a higher power. Paul
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Paul Homer
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Re: Controlling Losmandy GM811 with ASIAir Plus or Pro
become available, they are so backordered now. iphones and ipads are backordered? holy smokes with the new iphone 14 coming up next month i would expect them on sale! [email protected]> wrote:
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Brian Valente
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Re: Controlling Losmandy GM811 with ASIAir Plus or Pro
Thank you so much, Brian, I am listening to the podcast right now. I like that I will be able to use it on my iPhone or iPad, once they become available, they are so backordered now. Darryl From:
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zetapuppi
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Re: Controlling Losmandy GM811 with ASIAir Plus or Pro
PS here's a recent podcast where we discussed AAP with losmandy owner/guest Jim Potts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdTu4mTGGlM&t=1943s (skipped to this topic) [email protected]> wrote:
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Brian Valente
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Re: Controlling Losmandy GM811 with ASIAir Plus or Pro
Hi Darryl I use ASI Air Pro with my G11 pretty frequently. There are others here with plus/pro and other mounts that I'm sure will chime in Brian [email protected]> wrote: -- Brian Brian Valente
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Brian Valente
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Controlling Losmandy GM811 with ASIAir Plus or Pro
Hey everyone, I was thinking about ordering the ASIAir Plus for my GM811 but want to make sure that it can control my mount. Does anyone have any experience using the ASIAir Plus or Pro to control
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zetapuppi
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Re: Usability Question
Way back in January as a new GM8G / Stellarvue SVX102T-R owner I was on the cusp of some frustration with my GOTOs and put up a rather comprehensive post about it.? I got way more responses than I
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rpopovich@...
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Re: Usability Question
On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 03:09 PM, HenkSB wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 04:41 PM, Chip Louie wrote: > >> Oh, I forgot to mention that while I currently only have M8" ACF, M10" >> f/6.3, M10" f/10
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Chip Louie
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Re: Usability Question
Mark, The maximum number of stars I use to align my G11G and GM8G Gemini 2 mounts is 4, normally I just do a 2 star alignment and GOTOs are f
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Chip Louie
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Re: I just have one question
Oh. The LX200 standard. -- Chip Louie Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware Astropheric Weather Forecast - South Pasadena, CA Astrospheric Signature (
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Chip Louie
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Re: Usability Question
Thanks! Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2022 10:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Losmandy_users_io] Usability Question (I had to calculate my FOV.. It is listed as 0.1 x 0.07 degrees, so 6
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Mark de Regt
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Re: I just have one question
the Gemini. I mean there is no civil time in space is there? it's for compatibility with LX200 spec, for better or worse
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Brian Valente
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Re: I just have one question
Isn't the time standard of the world UTC? GMT is a historical time standard used from back when the British e Empire ruled the seas. Even the UK uses UTC these days though I think they still recognize
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Chip Louie
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