Finally after weeks of rain I have been able to use my new (old) setup. A skywatcher newtonian(750mm focal length) on a neq6 with an eos 300d as my main camera. An upgrade for the camera is possible in the future but for now this old camera will have to do. Indiserver running on a raspberry pi. Wifi to laptop running kstars-bleeding.
I was having a few problems getting ekos alignment to actually solve. I managed to narrow it down to the FOV values used. Once I had those sorted it would solve very quickly.
The alignment module calculates a FOV from the image width/height and the ccd-pixel size. The eos 300D pixel size is 7.4 whereas the indi-gphoto driver is using 5 (hardcoded?) and the image width/height is read from the image and depends on whether you capture a small/medium or large image (the 300D method of binning?).
I managed to trick the alignment module in using the correct FOV (or something close enough) by changing the focal length setting in the EQMod driver.
Is there a better (correct) way of setting the parameters for my scope and camera so that the alignment module uses the correct settings all the time? E.g. does the gphoto-driver allow for a settings file where ccd-pixel size is declared? Does the gphoto-driver understand the difference between small/medium/large image and treat is as binning?
I was having a few problems getting ekos alignment to actually solve. I managed to narrow it down to the FOV values used. Once I had those sorted it would solve very quickly.
The alignment module calculates a FOV from the image width/height and the ccd-pixel size. The eos 300D pixel size is 7.4 whereas the indi-gphoto driver is using 5 (hardcoded?) and the image width/height is read from the image and depends on whether you capture a small/medium or large image (the 300D method of binning?).
I managed to trick the alignment module in using the correct FOV (or something close enough) by changing the focal length setting in the EQMod driver.
Is there a better (correct) way of setting the parameters for my scope and camera so that the alignment module uses the correct settings all the time? E.g. does the gphoto-driver allow for a settings file where ccd-pixel size is declared? Does the gphoto-driver understand the difference between small/medium/large image and treat is as binning?