Astroart Forum

Hi, I have just set up a Raspberry Pi 4 acting as a server and have two lots of equipment that can be connected to it depending upon the target I wish to image: setup 1: Celestron CPC925 SCT ASI071MC Pro camera Celestron motor focuser ASI224guide camera Setup 2; Skywatcher HEQ5 Moonlight motor focus...

Hi, is there any possibility that in addition to Ascom support, Astroart could add Indi support? I have set up a system with a Raspberry Pi 4 using Indi running my entire imaging system wirelessly. There are several Windows packages that can connect over the network to the Indi drivers allowing remo...

Hi, yes I can confirm that Maxim was connected via Ascom. I also note that some other softwares have options to cool over a user selected period of time. Perhaps that could be added in a future service pack? I the meantime I'm happy to use the cooling script. BTW I love processing in Astroart. I hav...

Hi, I have had a chance to do some more testing. There is a difference in behaviour regarding cooling of the CCD by Astroart and other programs (noticeably Maxim DL 5.24, but also others) This occurs both with my QHY9 and my ASI071MC Pro. Cooling seems to happen more quickly with Astroart, and power...

Hi, in the pic PHD was the native driver, but the connection was the same with ascom.....I tried so many different versions of drivers with both Astroart and PHD2 that I didn't notice when I took the PHD2 pic I had connected the native driver (I always use ascom, not native). I'm happy that I got th...

Further to the QHY5L2 issue.

Testing shows that it will connect using the latest driver ,QHY5IIDriver160519(Beta), but when using a very old ASCOM driver see attached snip

Will not connect using latest ASCOM driver.
QHY9 testing later (time difference as I'm in Australia

Gary

Hi, thanks for replying. re the QHY5L2 the error was "cannot connect to camera" not "camera not found". Apologies for the error - I had been playing around with things for hours and wrote the email quite a while after I had stopped. Attached are screenshots of each connection stage using camera plug...

Hi, Have just started to use AA7 for camera control (have previously used AA5 and 6 for image processing only) I have experienced the following problems: 1) QHY9s camera connects OK, but temperature control does not work correctly. If for example I use a set point of 0 deg C , the camera starts cool...