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Yes it does, it will be under the telescope status window that opens up. You can find this under observatory > telescope status. There are a few tabs and this will be a few clicks to the right. I will post screenshots shortly.

This is a very good question, let me find out from the developer. As far as I know, this is not yet possible but is a very good proposition

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I have seen a few people with successful connections, maybe the drivers need to be updated perhaps?

can you please post screenshots of the problem? This help us see what is actually going on. It is also advisable to turn on the logging function to capture information about what is actually happening

thanks for the report Eric., we are looking into it now.

That's interesting. can you please send us a screenshot of how it is set up in the hardware section?

We already provide an extensive number of video and written tutorials. Could there be more, sure. The allsky plate solve is designed to search for a solution all over the sky. just create a free dropbox account and upload your fits image to it, then share the link to that file with us here, we will ...

please express your opinion by voting on which option you prefer, I'd love to know what the community prefers.

Peter, if you succeed at uploading those images somewhere accessible, I'd be glad to take a look on my machine. For those interested, I will start a new series of video tutorials and I will address one simple subject in less then 2 minutes.

Thanks Graham, that's exactly correct.

your astrometry.net is pointed at the wrong URL, it should be http://nova.astrometry.net . The address you have now will only work if you have download the local engine with ALL its files.

you can try something like Dropbox or Onedrive and share th link here. No matter, let's address your questions: 1. PRISM does provide a few clues as to why a plate solve failed. Remember here: There is a localized and allsky plate solve engines in PRISM. 2. I am interested as to why the ASTROMETRY.N...

The biggest problem so far I encounter is the plate solving. I loaded one of my photos (Veil nebula taken with a C14) and was unable to plate solve it. I tried different approaches. First I tried Astrometry.Net and despite I have the API key I always get the message: Invalid Key or Field error. When...

Welcome to the forum. You are correct, the advanced version is the only one capable of imaging with two cameras and guiding with a third. There is a special version of PRISM that can actually image with up to eight (8) different cameras but this is for special application. If this is of interest, we...

I will do that in the next few days, I will be broadcasting live for anyone who wants to join

Thanks

AAPOD has been awarded "Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day" for an image of M83 that was captured and pre-processed with PRISM, final processing was with Photoshop CS6. Here it is: http://www.aapodx2.com/

great results Vikrant, the data we acquired from Chile was unusable unfortunately.

can anyone share their images with us of this comet? I am sure someone has a great image of it

I imaged comet P46 last night from Chile and unchecking the dithering checkbox from the manual sequence windows will not dither. See the attached image

you can in automatic observation and manual observation as well. It is dithering during manual or automatic observation?

sweeeeet

This is an awesome result and I am glad everything is back in a working order.

Hi all For one reason or another, sometimes one is unsuccessful in installing their updates..unstable internet, antivirus flagging the wrong files, etc.. Cyril has built a backup for you so you can always revert to the last version very quickly. 1) head over to the PRISM program folder 2) find Prism...

Hi all For one reason or another, sometimes one is unsuccessful in installing their updates..unstable internet, antivirus flagging the wrong files, etc.. Cyril has built a backup for you so you can always revert to the last version very quickly. 1) head over to the PRISM program folder 2) find Prism...

I think @Olivier Thizy can help with this, he is our subject matter expert

great report again Al, thanks for sharing. I have had a similar situation with a customer that has a different system. Setting the park position in PRISM closer to the actual final position solved it. Now remember to share your processed images with us sometime

that is great news Al, thanks for reporting this.

I did it as a test from Chile, the video iself was put together using PRISM, this will be an upcoming tutorial.

Here is the video of the comet animation: https://www.facebook.com/hamzakt/videos ... 014795307/

let us look into this a little more. If I remember correctly, there is an issue with SideOfPier when you get really close to the meridian line. I will discuss this with Cyril and respond back.

I need the actual PRISM log that is present in C:\Users\XXX\Documents\Prism\LogFiles. Something important to note here: One needs to be careful about enabling the extent of logging, this will cause the file to ginormous.

Also,the function is actually "selectimg" and needs to be fixed in the documentation

I gotta ask, are you trying this function with images already open in PRISM? or trying to actually open one?

PRISM will park where it is told on the"parking tab" of the telescope control panel and then issue an ASCOM park command for mounts that supports. So, if you set those values to a location close to your actual park, it should work without a hitch. I do this with four mounts : (2) Paramounts and (2) ...

Thanks for the report, can you please share some screenshots with us?

great image Greg, I did make a video of it last month ( i think ?) and its rate was a lot slower. I will try it again tonight from Chile

please enable the log file for the length on the this test, try and replicate exactly what you just showed us.

P.S: your guiding looks great

please enable the log file for the length on the this test, try and replicate exactly what you just showed us.

P.S: your guiding looks great

Thanks for the information, this gives us something to go on. We will be in touch soon with a resolution to this problem

Thanks for the information, this gives us something to go on. We will be in touch soon with a resolution to this problem

that is a lot more detail, did you DDP the image?

Thanks Greg for the video, I am sure people here will appreciate your time. Yes, Windows font scaling can do it.

That is excellent Vikrant

Greg

If you reinstall on the same exact computer, the server treat it as the same activation. For the record, did you manage to reinstall and did the problem go away?

confirmed, what Cyril said works

the entire article can be found here: https://www.hyperion-astronomy.com/pages/publications

That would make sense, some software packages have different ways of saving file and writing to FIT headers.

it is quite impressive for that short of integration time, makes you wonder what it would like with 10 hours for each channel

The JANUS team has produced some amazing images throughout their first year. Operating everything with PRISM v10 ( of course :D ), all the images they take have a pixel scale of 0.4"/pixel and a seeing often well below 1 arcsecond. Their work is simply exceptional. Here is an image of NGC 300 by Lau...

can you please show me the settings of your filterwheel? I need to see how they're setup please.

That is awesome Greg, can you share your exposure details please?

Absolutely, let's get you up and running...automated

Hello Stefan

I had the same mount for months and guided with zero issues. Can you please try and calibrate the mount and share some screenshots with us? Pictures and videos are always better for troubleshooting

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VERY VERY well done, thank you for that.

Rowland

Can you type where the the " 1 " is, as in type "Lum" there and cycle through the filters and see if the names remain?

the second activation is actually automatic, you just need to enter your license on the second computer and PRISM will unlock

good morning Rowland

It is under observatory > Filterwheel 1 > and then you have top select the button that appears under the ASCOM hardware selector.

this looks like the RA direction is reversed in the last movement. Can you please check the driver. Also, please increase the calibration times to 10s for each axis.

no answer so far so here I go. PRISM makes taking lights and calibration frames easy. For flats/darks/biases there are tools to take them automatically for you. You can find them here: Observatory > CApture calibration images. For lights, you can use the manual sequence or the automatic observation ...

As you all know, PRISM is evolving quickly. What I typically do is combine the master frames and manually swap channels until I get what I want out of the image. This can be done under Color Imaging > swap color planes

Excellent question, I will need to verify with my own GPS to see if it is possible.

when you find a comet in PRISM ( easy to do ;) ) and you double click on it, the rate will be shown if it is known. PRISM provides a staggering amount of information right at your fingertips. Please keep in mind that rate offset can be adjusted under the mount control window IF your mount's driver a...

Great report. A few points:

- When using the contrast/Luminosity setting under settings, whatever you choose there becomes a the standard thresholds for what is displayed every time. The closer you get to 100% the darker the image gets. Adjust to taste

Niklas

I have used the same function with a GM1000 and PRISM sends the information at the end of the run. Can you please confirm this is what you are seeing?

Hi Dhaval

I need :

- the calibration parallelogram that you get, as in I need the image you get.
- I need to know what size subframe are you using in the calibration
- I need to know the amount of movement you are using in seconds
- Are you using an ST-4 cable or ASCOM pulseguide.

Hi Dwight

Have you tried using dark with your Lodestar? This way you have a cleaner image and less noise.

can you please send me the raw file? I'd love to give it A shot

try to force the update manually, please download this PRISM installer and install it. http://dl.hyperion-astronomy.com/setup_prism.exe

I have already handled this extensively in my automation video,please refer to it here starting. Please find it here: https://youtu.be/cW5MCONU9_I?t=1875

Sorry about the delayed response. I do not see any blooming in your images and I think the 8300 chip does not bloom either. Am I missing something here?

please update your PRISM version by going to help>check for updates. Please let me know if this fixes it, we can also force an update.

sometimes some catalogs have a folder within a folder you need to point to such as /UCAC4/UCAC4/. Glad you got it working though.

Hi Dick and thanks for the notice.

Try this and install PRISM, it will update your current version: http://dl.hyperion-astronomy.com/setup_prism.zip

Well done Graham

Good morning Graham

PRISM needs to be put in the exception of your antivirus list, please whitelist all its folders. Cyril will NEVER use anything other than safe in PRISM.

Yes, in the telescope control window that shows up after you connect your mount to PRISM, you can set it in the "Parking" tab

Welcome back Henk

I have notified Cyril about this issue and he will get back to you

what version of PRISM is this?

Thanks, great answer.

Greetings to all

Mark Zaslove has written an outstanding article about PRISM v10 in Astronomy Technology Today, check it out here: https://astronomytechnologytoday.com/20 ... 2-issue-2/. Here is a sample:

does it have an ASCOM driver?

this is AWESOME, thanks for sharing

Good morning Dick

Cyril has been notified and this will be resolved, I will update the community as soon as possible.

I need more information, screenshots, a video something to show what is happening.

can you please post some images of the issue?

Absolutely, he is part of this forum and reads these posts.

It is not hidden and always available through a google search like " Prism French Forum". It resides here for your reference : http://www.prism-astro.com/forum/

Please upload the RAWs to Dropbox(or similar) and share the link with me, I wanna try it myself.

This is a great script written by Alain Maury ( www.spaceobs.com) to help in variable star observing. all your comments and suggestions are welcome. Please remember to change the file extension to ".pgm" to work in PRISM. REM Variable star observing REM originated from the asteroid survey script REM...

Mark Smith has some input, I will ping him for a response.

as you noted, Cyril has opted for the start, end and in case of trouble to execute a script, it has been like this since its conception. There is already a script designed by Alain Maury that I will post later with his permission. It does quite a bit.

when you choose Hardware setup then filterwheel #1, you should be presented with a "setup" button on the bottom right where you can set your filterwheel names. PRISM will then pull the name from ASCOM as you name them. If this is not the case, please post a picture of what you're seeing please.

Enhancement suggestion: store the autofocus parameters in settings and use them by default. This is already available here: focus parameters.JPG I woke up at 445AM local time and the run was still going, but it had gotten to 159 exposures. By 162 exposures, the scope was starting to point below my ...

Excellent post Rowland. Changing equipment is handled in PRISM as you can save the entire software's settings for each setup. This will address your hardware changes. PRISM is being developed continuously and we welcome Ideas such as this one. One thing to keep in mind however; PRISM has exceeded 1 ...

I was hoping the Celestron owners would chime in by now

You can set them in the camera tab if you know what they are. Just telling the camera to go to "unity gain" remains a function of the ASCOM driver

I am assuming you'redoing this through the pre-processing tool ? if it is the case, then it should be rather quick.

Hi Rowland Thanks for the great question. PRISM takes a rather simple and reliable way to autofocus. It is not far-fetched to ask where the start and end of the autofocus routine is and one has to account for ALL telescope setups out there. Some cases with SCT are hard to deal with because of mirror...

Yes, many users use the G11/Gemini 2 without a hitch, I had the G11 and liked it very much.

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