For those of you that are interested in open source astronomy and do not want to manually install their system like I presented in this post, I recently found a very nice alternative name Astroberry. It comes with all the necessary software such as INDI, KStars, Astrometry.Net, ASTAP, CCDCiel, SkyChart, OpenPHD, oaCapture and many others……
Yesterday night, we had the biggest full moon for 2020 (“Super Moon”). I took the opportunity to shot it. Interestingly, the moon was not completely full (illuminated at 99.4%). Therefore you can see some relief in craters on the southern part of the Moon. == MATERIEL == Instrument : WO ZenithStar 66 Diamètre: 66mm Focale:…
Here is the installation procedure I used to configure a Raspberry Pi 4 for astronomical use. Install Ubuntu Server: https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi Update Ubuntu and install a desktop environment together with an SSH and VNC servers 3. Install astronomy software INDI:Website | Installation KStars: Website | Installation Astrometry.net: Website | Installation CCDciel: Website | Installation SkyChart: Website | Installation Stellarium: Website…