All,
I have a cheap USB color webcam that I want to try an experiment with. I gave my brother a lower end Celestron Nexstar GT mount with a 4.5" Newt on it. I want to control the mount via INDI/Ekos and plate solve for him with the cheap USB web cam. I have the camera working just fine in Linux via the V4l2 libraries. I have captured stills and video both from the Linux Mint OS. I however have been unable to get it to work properly in INDI/Ekos. It connects to the camera just fine, but it seems I can not get any exposures. When I click on preview it just spins and has the message Capturing image in the status screen. I am positive I have a setting incorrect somewhere, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what could be going sideways here. Like I said, I am not looking for a high end imaging platform here. I would just like to be able to use the astrometry.net plate solved so my brother (who does not know diddly about the sky) can figure out what he is looking at. Any help you guys can offer will be greatly appreciated.
I have a cheap USB color webcam that I want to try an experiment with. I gave my brother a lower end Celestron Nexstar GT mount with a 4.5" Newt on it. I want to control the mount via INDI/Ekos and plate solve for him with the cheap USB web cam. I have the camera working just fine in Linux via the V4l2 libraries. I have captured stills and video both from the Linux Mint OS. I however have been unable to get it to work properly in INDI/Ekos. It connects to the camera just fine, but it seems I can not get any exposures. When I click on preview it just spins and has the message Capturing image in the status screen. I am positive I have a setting incorrect somewhere, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what could be going sideways here. Like I said, I am not looking for a high end imaging platform here. I would just like to be able to use the astrometry.net plate solved so my brother (who does not know diddly about the sky) can figure out what he is looking at. Any help you guys can offer will be greatly appreciated.