Nicolas GladeFeb 7, 2025
#Astrophotography of Orion captured 2 nights ago. [slightly enhanced]
56x180s exp time (with L-Enhance #optolongfilters) + 39x30s (without filter) + DOF, #canon 1200D defiltered, 800 iso, #Skywatcher Netwonian 150/750 and AZ-EQ5 mount, coma corrector, PHD2 Guiding with #kepler 50/162 lens + Asi #Zwo 120mm + #Astroberry on a #raspberrypi 3.
https://flic.kr/p/2qKmBx6
#photo #photography. #space #deepskyphotography #deepsky #telescope
Grande nébuleuse d'Orion (M42)

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Show threadelbuhocurioso ✨🔭🌳🚴🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♂️✍🏼💩

@nicoglastro

Hello there.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3. I installed Astroberry on it. I connect to it from a browser on my laptop. I open kstar to take pictures with Ekos. But everything seems very slow to me.

Are there any remote connection options to Astroberry that do not require an open graphical session in Astroberry?

A very nice picture.

Feb 12, 2025 at 3:04pmWeb
Show threadNicolas GladeFeb 12, 2025
@elbuhocurioso hi ! Thanks !
Well, I don't really know since I'm using a small monitor directly connected through the hdmi port of the RPi.
Ekos+Kstar are in general very slow on a RPi3 and I can imagine it's worth after a VNC graphical connection.
It's of course possible to connect to RPi from a PC using a terminal and SSH protocol, but I really have no idea of how to control Ekos in command line.
Personnaly I'm currently considering moving to a RPi5 with NINA running on Windows.
Show threadNicolas GladeFeb 12, 2025

@elbuhocurioso ... ok, it seems it's possible : https://openastronomy.substack.com/p/automating-kstars-and-ekos-part-1

I'd use a SSH connection from the PC to control Kstars and Ekos via QDBus.
I'll try it ... when I'll find enough time ... in another life ... ;)

Automating KStars & Ekos Part 1

Using DBUS to control your Astroimaging

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Show threadelbuhocurioso ✨🔭🌳🚴🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♂️✍🏼💩Feb 13, 2025

@nicoglastro

I finally found the solution to leave the telescope outside the house with Astroberry and control it remotely from inside.

The distribution is very well thought out. By default it loads an #indiweb service that is accessed from #Kstars through port 8624.
In fact, in the ekos profile there is an option that searches the local network to see if there is an indiweb server to connect to.

Now I am going to try to close by default services that are not necessary like X, cups and others. This way I will be able to get more out of the raspberry 3