TenChain Hill New Moon night 1st Feb

[pmrid]

Guys, keep this one in mind. I'm taking my lightweight rig and the spouse away for a couple of months from early Feb. So the next NMN could be the last until May.
Weather permitting, let's make it a good one.
Peter

[RickS]

Thanks, Peter. Will get up if I can. It would be good to catch up after so long...

Cheers,
Rick.

[ozstronomer]

Thanks Peter, I'll be up , weather permitting

[lazjen]

I'm going to try for this one Peter. Here's hoping the weather is good. :)

[pmrid]

Great stuff. New moon is on the Friday 31st I think. Whatever night you like will be OK with me - Fri or Sat.

Hey Chris, can you see what we will need to plate solve with EKos? Probably need to DL the astrometry.net indices and AstroTortilla. Any idea?
Peter

[Spookyer]

Hi Peter, I should be there. May even have the new camera by then.:thumbsup:

Cheers
Brett

[lazjen]

I didn't get that far (no cameras would work :( ), so I didn't progress the plate solving aspect.

However, from reading, I think you can either use the online astrometry.net or use a local install of astrometry.net. I know I'll be looking at the latter.

I'd look at doing a local install of astrometry.net and configuring for that. I don't believe AstroTortilla will be needed, since that's basically "inside" Ekos.

I got to the point where I was trying to build everything from source to fix the camera problems, so I've taken a pause to start rebuilding the laptop into a version of Linux I'm more comfortable using.

[pmrid]

Yeah, a local install seems the go. Can I pinch a copy of your DLs when you do that?
Peter

[RickS]

I have copies of most of the Astrometry.net index files if you want to save many GB of downloads...

[lazjen]

I'll prepare to bring a copy as well Rick in case one of us can't turn up for some reason.

[RickS]

Sounds good, Chris...

[pmrid]

Well guys, that seems to be that! The chances of winning Lotto are better than those for a fine New Moon. Skippy has spoken!! So has BOM.

I'm not sure how long we'll be away. I am taking a Tak FS60CB and a StarLapse system to do some widefield HA stuff plus a Polarie and some great Olympus camera and lens gear to do some starscapes and the like. So I plan to be busy. I may even get a chance to post a few images. I'm also trialing a Linux Mint16 INDI/Ekos setup in the hope that I can slowly move all my Obs gear across to a Linux platform. So I'll be busy alright! Plus I'm taking my bike, wife, taste for red wine, a kayak and fishing line. Woohoo!!

I'll revitalise this thread when I get back.

cheers all.

Peter

[RickS]

Have a great trip, Peter! See you when you get back.

Cheers,
Rick.

[lazjen]

Indeed, have a good trip. Do you need the astrometry files before you go away? I think it's about 34Gb of index files.

[Spookyer]

Have a safe trip Peter:)

Brett

[pmrid]

No thanks Chris. None of the gear I'm taking is guided or under computer control. I'm doing it the old-fashioned way.
Peter

[RickS]

Luddite :lol:

[lazjen]

Heh, I agree with Rick. :)

[ozstronomer]

Safe trip Peter, looking forward to some great images with the Olympus

Cheers Geoff