good and bad session - by: alacant
H everyone Our Windows to Ubuntu migration is going well and we have had some nice shots from ekos. I'ts difficult to know what we're doing wrong. Last night we had a crash (kstars disappeared from the...
View ArticlePlanewave L-350 Mount support - by: ollie
Does anyone know if Planewave offers an INDI driver (or plans to release one) for their direct drive mounts, such as the L-350? I can contact them directly if nobody knows offhand. Thank you, Ollie
View ArticleA general discussion of all things HDX110 / EQ-8 - by: xsnrg
I would like to open a general discussion about the HDX-110 (Orion) . EQ-8 mount. This mount has been available for a while now, but I have recently received the plates to attach mine to my pier. This...
View Articlecould not activate debug button - by: Christian
when i click on the button, the debugging options appear very quickly and immediately disappear and i have the message in the log that say : 2018-07-17T21:03:45: [INFO] Debug is disabled....
View ArticlePhd2 guide after meridian flip - by: alacant
Hi everyone After a flip and realignment, phd2 does not restart. Hitting guide manually causes a recalibration which while is needed for the internal guider, is not necessary or desirable for phd2. The...
View ArticleSetting up astro software under Manjaro (or Arch) Linux - by: avarakin
Hi, Manjaro distribution is currently becoming one of the most popular distributions. According to Distrowatch, it is the most popular distribution and for a good reason: it is very easy to install,...
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EkosLive Guide - by: knro
The following are the instructions for users of EkosLive Beta on how to get started. You need KStars Bleeding package from Nightly PPA repository for this to work! You need to be enrolled in the beta...
View ArticleImport masters in Dark library? - by: sergiod
Hi everyone. Is there any way (or trick) to import my master darks into the Dark Library? E.g., my guider camera doesn't have a shutter and I find uncomfortable to manually have to cover the guidescope...
View ArticleHitechastro DC 2 focuser controller - by: Temmerman
Hi, I was wondering whether anybody else owns a HitechAstro DC focuscontroller 2. Did anybody manage to make this controller work with the existing driver indi_hitecastrodc_focus? Jasem has been...
View ArticleEkos tries to offset focus when no focuser defined in profile - by: sergiod
Hi everyone. I have two profiles in Ekos: - telescope #1 with focuser (imager, guider, etc) - telescope #2 without focuser For the first profile, I've defined filter offsets for convenience. But when I...
View Articleindi_gphoto_ccd with DSLR T7i - by: noriQ
Hello. I have a problem. I am using Canon T7i (X9i). The INDI module I am using is indi-gphoto (2.2 to 201807161307 ~ ubuntu 16.04.1). Although 1 second capture works, can not capture longer than that...
View ArticleCanon DSLR and video: Some questions - by: seescho
Hallo It was a long fight, but finally I succeded in compiling kstars, libindi and astrometry.net on my openSUSE Tumbleweed Laptop. The biggest deal was to get astrometry.net working for solving...
View ArticleTimer not accurate at 1 second exposure - by: gbeaton
When I set the exposure for 1 sec, it ends up being about 3 or 4. I notices the shutter opening right away but the timer takes a couple of seconds to start. Using kstars on Mac remote to stellarmate....
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kstars frustrations - by: tmdag
After few conversations on this forum, I have learned few things about setting things up with kstars and I wanted to give another try. So I have aligned my Celestron Nexstar Evolution 6. Weirdly...
View Articlegood and bad session - by: alacant
H everyone Our Windows to Ubuntu migration is going well and we have had some nice shots from ekos. I'ts difficult to know what we're doing wrong. Last night we had a crash (kstars disappeared from the...
View Articlecould not activate debug button - by: Christian
when i click on the button, the debugging options appear very quickly and immediately disappear and i have the message in the log that say : 2018-07-17T21:03:45: [INFO] Debug is disabled....
View ArticlePhd2 guide after meridian flip - by: alacant
Hi everyone After a flip and realignment, phd2 does not restart. Hitting guide manually causes a recalibration which while is needed for the internal guider, is not necessary or desirable for phd2. The...
View ArticleEkos tries to offset focus when no focuser defined in profile - by: sergiod
Hi everyone. I have two profiles in Ekos: - telescope #1 with focuser (imager, guider, etc) - telescope #2 without focuser For the first profile, I've defined filter offsets for convenience. But when I...
View ArticleIssue compiling SBIG driver on Ubuntu 18.04 - by: Phil31000
Hello, When I try to compile the latest INDI release on Ubuntu 18.04, I get an error for the SBIG driver. This error happens both when compiling individually the SBIG driver and when compiling ALL the...
View ArticleDithering with Two Cameras (DSLR/CCD) - by: AstroWill
Hi, I had posted this in the general thread but I think it's more of a feature request and hence posting here. Can anyone make any suggestions on how the control of more than two imaging cameras can be...
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