Category Archives: Astroimaging

Lunar eclipse from Southern Spain

Posted on August 20, 2018 by james

The lunar eclipse at the end of July found me on holiday in Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains with a view to the coast and beyond (as far as Africa, in fact). I had used my … Continue reading →

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Star Adventurer Tracking Accuracy Results

Posted on April 27, 2018 by james

After running for 24 hours I stopped the SA running and measured the distance from the finishing point to my initial mark: Looks like it’s gone a bit too far. However, that’s in a solar day, not a sidereal day, … Continue reading →

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Checking Star Adventurer tracking accuracy

Posted on April 25, 2018 by james

I wanted to get this done now so I can get any problems sorted before actually wanting to use the mount in anger, so I’ve set the entire mount up with the counterweight bar almost touching a wall. I marked … Continue reading →

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Star Adventuring

Posted on April 25, 2018 by james

My new-to-me, but used, Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount has arrived! As discussed in another post, the plan is to use this on a Neewer Carbon Fiber (sic) 65 tripod to mount a TS Photoline 72mm OTA and Canon 450D, possibly … Continue reading →

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Tripod for Skywatcher Star Adventurer

Posted on April 22, 2018 by james

Reading around to pull together ideas for a tripod for the Skywatcher Star Adventurer mount (particularly with a view to airline travel), a number of people are apparently using the Zomei Z888C carbon fibre tripod and it did indeed look … Continue reading →

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ASI120MM-S first impressions

Posted on August 14, 2014 by james

The ASI120MM-S (and ASI120MC-S) are new versions of the ASI120MM (and ASI120MC) cameras from ZWO with a new USB3 interface rather than the USB2 interface in the original models. Mine arrived a few weeks ago though I’ve had no chance … Continue reading →

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Planetary imaging on a MacBook/OSX

Posted on August 13, 2014 by james

Well, ok, so I’ve not actually done it, but it should at least now be possible using oaCapture. Using a bundle of bits from the macports repository I now have oaCapture building on 64-bit OSX and it appears to work … Continue reading →

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My first RGB planetary image

Posted on August 13, 2014 by james

I’ve been working myself up to having a crack at monochrome planetary imaging for a while, but having got the motorised focuser, dew heaters and so on sorted it seemed like it was about time. Capturing the data was actually … Continue reading →

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Access to all camera controls in oaCapture

Posted on August 13, 2014 by james

I’ve now added functionality to provide access to all the supported camera controls in a single popup in oaCapture.  In the general case I suspect many of these will not be required, but if you want to fiddle with everything … Continue reading →

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oaCapture QHY5L-II support

Posted on August 13, 2014 by james

Note quite there, but very nearly (for the mono camera, at least).  The splitting of the frame clearly means there’s an issue somewhere, but it can’t be too hard to get sorted.

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