Caroles First Deep Sky Attempt, was - Re: Deep Sky Camp - February 20th 2009

[Ian]

Mike was waltzing? I don't recall that turning up on the "things to do at DSC" thread...

[Carole]

Paul here NOT. I have been called Malcolm many times by many people of the years but never Paul

I think the confusion arose from me asking Mike about capture settings in K3 and he said he wasn't familiar with K3 but Paul was.  So when a tall person in a woolley hat came over, in the dark, I just assumed it was Paul.

I was obviously more intent on what I was doing rather than looking at the person talking to me.

Paul was even more confused later when I went to ask him about something I thought "he had told me to do", because he didn't have a clue what I was talking about.  I then got even more confused thinking "this guy's just told me all this and now he doesn't remember"!!!  thought he was either winding me up or I was going balmy.  Anyway, eventually the penny dropped.

Duh!!!!!!!!!

The joys of working in the dark.

Carole

[Fay]

 

[Carole]

John,

Have you got long exposure control setup in K3..? You need to set up the LX port control settings in options/ settings.

Have now got laptop on.

Under options/settings Under camera SC mod there is LX mode ON and under Jg mod long exposure settings, not sure which I should be using or what any of the other things mean.  

I have got a long exposure button (camera with a yellow frame).

Should I also be entering the telescope and CCD camera settings according to my set up in CCD button?

Carole

[Ian]

you should use the SC mod. The JG mod is for a different sort of camera. The camera will have a parallel port connection (or maybe serial) that the computer will use to control the shutter of the camera. Steve Chambers did try and find a way of controlling the shutter over the USB port, but it's not possible.

The telescope and CCD setting are worth setting, but it'll work quite happily without. IIRC there's a CCD calculator that'll give you field of view and so on. I think those setting might be important to guiding too, but I don't use K3 for guiding so I don't know.

[Carole]

Thanks Ian.

[Rocket Pooch]

Well done Carol, you will not spend all your life waiting for clear skies.....

[Mac]

you will not spend all your life waiting for clear skies

Just most of it.