A New Beginning- Test Night 2

The Lap top has been retired just like me. I have started to use a Nuc which is a computer the size of my Samsung phone but not even a third of the weight. Nucs do not have a screen or a keyboard they are just a computer hard drive. It took me the better part of three days to set it all up( thankfully bucketing down with rain) first in the computer then as you can see getting it to find all the part that it has to operate. The only two night I had to check was FULL MOON which is not really good for photos but great for testing. The drive has only the running parts for the mount, Twitter, Xbox and a whole host of others apps where all deleted from the Nuc. See if you can find the Nuc Top left of key board.





The whole Idea is to remove as many of the heavy hard cables that go up to the top as possible. this removed 5 of them heavy hard cable they shrunk from my 3m ones to less than a 1m and all go into the sides of the Nuc usb ports.



It took me two night to get the parts working first night was Guide camera and calibration. for some unknown reason the program decided to pick the main scope and camera when that was not the one it was set up with for guiding...... A lot of scratch the head but worked it out.

last night was try and take a photo on a far less than ideal night Full moon next to target BUT did all the parts of the program work. Thankfully they all did every one of them. I get into the Nuc by a net work cable that plugs into a switch next to the desk top inside so I operate it from inside the house. the only thing that did not work as I did not try was Rotation, for that I have to walk outside from computer room then back. That will get a test out later. This worked now its try and find clear nights we are back into rain.

Not being a computer person and have to get all the many layers to work is a real uphill battle. First night the main camera only produced what looked like a jet back photo. We could not work out why on the hop out in the dark so I went to bed. It turned out lap top could get a photo but not the Nuc. I checked the Nuc had the very latest all in one driver package but not the laptop it was the driver for the camera one camera so it was copy driver and add to Nuc. yes it worked.

QHY183C -10c 60 shot 5 min
MeLE Mini PC
Prima Luce Essato Focus
Optolong LeNhance filter,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps.