Balance, even if it’s Ugly

Balance, even if it’s Ugly

Yeah, it looks ugly I know even looking at it while I am writing this post I am thinking why the hell am I posting this? Simply put if you use an EQ mount you need balance! If not it will cause you headaches if you don’t. I have been running my new RedCat51 II...
Hacking the ZWO ASIAIR Plus Kernel

Hacking the ZWO ASIAIR Plus Kernel

Well, I did it! It didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would. As a matter of fact, here is the Kernel for anyone that would like to load any operating system you want on the ASIAIR Plus with working USB ports. Basically, you need the changes I made to the...
Hello Open Astro

Hello Open Astro

So it begins, the ever-changing revolving door of Astrophotography. I recently gave a speech at ALCON 2022 All about the ZWO ASAIR Pro and Plus and the Open Astro Initiative https://www.openastro.net/ Welcome to ALCON 2022 So what is the Open Astro Initiative all...
Super Sonic Speed with PixInsight

Super Sonic Speed with PixInsight

So in my last article, I posted about increasing the speed of StarNet++ as long as you have a CUDA-enabled NVIDIA Graphics Card. This article is about speeding up PixInsight with a little thing called RAM Disk. What doe this cost? Well, some time to set up and 10GB...
Speedy Gonzales your StarNet++!

Speedy Gonzales your StarNet++!

So in the never-ending need to go faster with processing images, I purchased a new computer. The Dell XPS 8950 to be exact. I was going to build a PC but after pricing it all out Dell was the cheaper route to go and it included one year of pro support and Windows 11...