![]() ![]() The most recent of these products being the impressively small and powerful Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box. With new astrophotography hardware products hitting the market that demand faster and more capable machines, I knew the old Sony’s days were numbered. The computer I’ve used for astrophotography until now was a Sony VAIO with USB 2.0 ports, 2GB RAM, and a severely outdated processor. I currently use an Acer Enduro N3 laptop to control my imaging sessions (Summer 2020) Upgrading My Computer for Astrophotography My decision-making process should be of value to anyone that finds themselves in this situation. When this post was written, I had just upgraded my nearly 10-year old laptop to an affordable Lenovo Thinkpad. As I said, I prefer the full control of a laptop for astrophotography, but you may want to build a kit with something a little more streamlined. In this article, I will describe some of the options available to amateur astronomers right now. The photo below was captured by controlling my Canon EOS Ra camera with the Enduro laptop outside. The latest computer I use for my deep-sky astrophotography sessions is the Acer Enduro N3.Īcer reached out to me to test their new line of rugged laptops in 2020, and I am happy to report that it is a great fit for my imaging location. I will keep trying iterations with the desktop system to bracket the problem.I enjoy using a laptop for astrophotography over some of the other choices that are available. Mind you I started phd2 after all other drivers were running. ![]() Otherwise, last night I used a similar setup with my Star Adventurer, Canon 60D, QHY5L mini guider, sim=telescope and phd2 running on another RP3+. Power need to be recycled on Canon and all drivers halted and restarted. However, if I trigger 'capture' in guiding it get the" could not wait for event" message under the Canon driver tab. Power need to be recycled on Canon and all drivers halted and restarted.įrom the Mac desktop with remote configuration to RP3+ (running drivers) the Canon is able to take and save photos. When I select guide/capture/loop from guiding tab the Canon (photo) repeats " could not wait for event". Kstars was run solely on this RP3+ as a test. Running current version on two RP3+ and MacOs. I have been experiencing nearly the same behaviour. I would like to add some more data to this thread. Linux raspberry pi 4.19.57-v7l (Raspberry Pi 4) on Raspbian 10 Buster INDI Library : 1.7.9 (compiled from d0321cb7, a more recent build like 1.8.0 does not get an image from the QHY5II) I'm new with INDI and don't really what I could try to do to diagnose my issue. I'm not asking for a solution directly (because miracles are rare ), but I don't really know where to begin with. At some point, PHD2 complains about QHY driver timing out, and I usually need to restart guiding.Ĭould it be a power issue (I don't use a powered hub at the moment) ? A USB bottleneck somehow ? As soon as I try to use the gphotos driver to control my Pentax DSLR, PHD2 guidescope preview freezes while Ekos is transferring raw files from the DSLR to the Rpi. The QHY driver works fine for hours straight when I'm controlling the camera with a remote control. When using both QHY and gphotos driver at the same time, it seems that the QHY driver times out and lead to a crash in PHD2. ![]()
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