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<WeylandsWings>
raptop: how goes your conjuntion zoom
<raptop>
Success
<raptop>
The clouds parted, so we could show jupiter + saturn + assorted moons in the same frame
<SnoopJ>
nice
<WeylandsWings>
hrm that isnt how astronomy open houses are supposed to work though... it is supposed to clear up right after you tell everyone that it isnt going to clear up and cancel the event
<WeylandsWings>
or if you are trying to catch an event, it clears up just as it happens or right after it
<raptop>
cleared up during the event, but conjunctions take a while, so...
<iximeow>
so far as i can tell, this is a diff between two released versions of some mount control software
<raptop>
iximeow: oops
<raptop>
iximeow: also, uh, we've had some fun problems with TheSkyX on Windows 10
<iximeow>
oh no. what kind?
<raptop>
Standard procedure includes making sure to close/reopen the program every few days (and we've gone back and forth on shutting it down at the end of every observing session)
<raptop>
For specific cases, it's lost contact with the telescope in interesting ways
* iximeow
sigh
<raptop>
Or gotten coordinate confusion that results in trying to point below the horizon
<raptop>
lost contact in one cases meaning something reacting with the registry or something so the dome had to be closed manually
<iximeow>
yeah. i've seen similar misbehaviors after leaving this telescope parked over an evening
<raptop>
aaaa
<iximeow>
perfectly fine model ends up off by like twenty degrees after doing nothing for a day
<raptop>
An evening is not a large number of milliseconds
<raptop>
Yeah, we've had pointing issues that are apparently non-trivial to fix, so the scope can end up 10s of arcminutes off for a week or three
<raptop>
(the FoV is 23' x 23')
<iximeow>
lolsob
<iximeow>
the former owner of this telescope relied on ACP's feature wherein it would plate solve after pointing and correct off of that, to handle any last-minute pointing issues
<raptop>
It would be nice if we could do that weekly and then back-propogate the pointing. (This is probably quite possible?)
<iximeow>
sounds reasonable to me?
<iximeow>
if you're using TheSkyX, are you working with a paramount?
<raptop>
not sure
<iximeow>
(software bisque's licensing for their mount software is.... upsetting. so TheSkyX ends up being the best option for their mounts, OR "just replace all the electronics".)
<iximeow>
reportedly they license out a library to handle mount communication that works over ASCOM but the licensing is such that TheSkyX is a better price and a better option for most uses
<iximeow>
including, for some setups i've seen, "just run TheSkyX in a windows VM writing to a shared folder that the linux side of the software stack can see and read/write"
<raptop>
oof
<WeylandsWings>
but TheSkyX is such a nice package overall
<iximeow>
yeah it seems nice
<WeylandsWings>
but i have seen some fun failures/issues with it as well