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Tag: Kstars

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Automating my Raspberry Pi builds for EAA…
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Automating my Raspberry Pi builds for EAA…

January 23, 2023 by Hersey

I started out running Astroberry on my Raspberry Pis for EAA. Astroberry is great and has most everything you need but it also has a bunch of stuff you may never use. Since Astroberry is not updated that often and it is…

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Learning KStars/Ekos – Automating EAA Captures with the Ekos Scheduler
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Learning KStars/Ekos – Automating EAA Captures with the Ekos Scheduler

November 5, 2022 by Hersey

The Ekos Scheduler is primarily used for scheduling an automated Astrophotography session, but it can also help automate captures for EAA. This way you can spend less time setting up, or re-setting up, captures and more time observing and enjoying your live…

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Learning KStars/Ekos – Creating Darks with KStars/Ekos and SharpCap
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Learning KStars/Ekos – Creating Darks with KStars/Ekos and SharpCap

September 28, 2022 by Hersey

Dark frames, dark calibration frames, or simply darks are used to compensate for hot pixels, thermal noise, amp glow, and other camera sensor noise artifacts in images, especially in longer exposure images. Most EAA software can apply darks during a live stack…

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Capturing Images with Ekos and EAA Live Stacking in SharpCap Pro
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Capturing Images with Ekos and EAA Live Stacking in SharpCap Pro

April 6, 2022 by Hersey

I have had a few folks reach out and ask me about my workflow for capturing images with KStars/Ekos/INDI and then live stacking them using SharpCap for EAA. I am using Ekos to capture and save the FITS files to my local…

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Added a Display to the Astroberry Raspberry Pi…
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Added a Display to the Astroberry Raspberry Pi…

March 19, 2022 by Hersey

While I am waiting for the sky to clear I added a display to the Raspberry Pi running Astroberry which I have been using to control my camera and mount for my EAA sessions. I picked up a 10.1″ touch screen monitor…

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Learning KStars/Ekos – Polar Alignment – What, Why, How…
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Learning KStars/Ekos – Polar Alignment – What, Why, How…

January 29, 2022 by Hersey

This post covers polar alignment (What and Why) and the process I use (How) to accurately polar align my Celestron Advanced GT equatorial mount using Ekos for EAA observing. The details of the process will vary for different mounts and different EAA…

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Learning KStars – Creating a Observing Wish List..
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Learning KStars – Creating a Observing Wish List..

January 25, 2022 by Hersey

Sometimes it’s fun to just bounce around the night sky, but most of the time I try to plan out my EAA sessions. I especially like to have a plan on a school (work) night, when my time is limited. Having a…

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My Old Nikon D60 in KStars/Ekos/INDI
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My Old Nikon D60 in KStars/Ekos/INDI

January 21, 2022 by Hersey

I have an old Nikon D60 DSLR which has been in a box for about 10 years. It is still in decent shape and works. The Nikon D60 was a lower end inexpensive 10 Megapixel DSLR released back in 2008. It took…

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Remote EAA with Astroberry Web Manager…
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Remote EAA with Astroberry Web Manager…

January 13, 2022 by Hersey

I have been using my Raspberry Pi setup with Astroberry to remotely control my gear for a few EAA observing sessions now and it has been working out great. The clear nights have been cold and since I can access and control…

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Setting Up a GPS Module on the Astroberry
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Setting Up a GPS Module on the Astroberry

January 6, 2022 by Hersey

I set up and tested my Raspberry Pi with Astroberry a few days ago. The GPS Module I ordered finally arrived and this post walks through how I set it up to get real-time GPS data for KStars. This is not really…

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Suffolk, VA
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