Lagoon Nebula

This was a trial with the MeLE Nuc to see if things where right I had three nights to "play" with the whole set up. The Nuc sits under the Skywatcker ED80 so 5 long 3 m cables gone going to the laptop they all stay up on the top of the scope.

 

Night one did not work out at all could not get plate solve to work properly could hardly see the stars. After some two hours I gave up went to bed.

 

Night two I bumped plate solve exposure by more than double the time finally plate solve worked. So I thought I would try some thing to check if the system worked. On taking the very first photo it would not down load and I lost the camera. The usb cable that was supplied with the camera died. My only option was to bundle up my normal 3m cable and connect up to the camera and the Nuc and try a fix the whole lot to the scope. The whole thing looked like it was normally what I was use to seeing.

 

Night three I had to remove the dead cable and wrap the 3m one around the guide scope. I decided to do a real test set up the system to start on it own 6:45Pm. I sat in side the computer room and watched the sequence start flawless totally on its own. This is the result of those two nights some more 1m cables on there way to lessen the weight of cables. Plate solve has gone back to its normal 10 sec exposure time.

 

QHY183C -10c 226 shot 2 min

MeLE Mini PC

Prima Luce Essato Focus

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

SVbony 50MM Guide scope

QHY QHY5L-II-M Guide camera

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps.

Done