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Old 05-08-2025, 11:15 AM
Mickoid (Michael)
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Raspberry Pi Nebula

I've decided to have a go at automating my gear via a WiFi connection of some sort. Something that will allow me to sit inside a warm house and control the mount and cameras that sit outside in the cold. So far I've had some sucess running AstroArch on a Raspberry Pi 5 mini computer. Similar to an ASIAIR but works with a QHY183M camera. I can run everything through the Pi powered by a portable power pack. The whole lot sits on the assesory tray of the HEQ5 mount. So far it only works at a distance of around 10 metres but that's enough from the living room to where the telescope sits outside now.

I haven't quite got the autoguiding function working on it yet so this result is 90 mins worth of RGB and a bit of narrowband for luminance with a 6 inch Newt and 60 second unguided subs. Bortle 6 skies and a quarter moon nearby didn't help this result and without a Coma Corrector.
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Old 05-08-2025, 12:01 PM
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Very nice. I gather AstroArch has continued where Astroberry had lagged.
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Old 05-08-2025, 06:07 PM
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Thanks Sean, I tried installing Astroberry on the Pi 5 but it wouldn't load. Not sure if it has been updated to run on 64 bit boards, I think it is still a 32 bit OS. I'm not that knowledgeable on the internal workings that run computers. Maybe someone else will have an answer to this. Astroberry may run smoothly on a Pi 4.
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