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Re: Digital Setting Circles working with SkySafari Post by geyes30 » Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:01 pm I converted the system to a dual-encoder DSC, and it now performs lag-free in SkySafari.Hardware set #1 (Flush sided as with a TeleKit) is shown at left below in Photo 1. Hardware set #2 (side protrusions as with a Obsession) is shown below in Photo 2. ... Sky Commander Digital Setting Circles XP-4 Flash v 5.02. Sky Commander mounted on Zhumell Z-8. Sky Commander Computer with Zhumell Hardware Set Digital Setting Circles: a different experience in visual observation. The GOTO systems of the scope mounts allow us to go automatically to any object in the sky. The fact is that without knowing how to align with the polar and without knowing where the stars, clusters, galaxies or nebulae are, we can easily find and see them thanks to a ... At the request of a user, I updated my ASCOM Driver for Digital Setting Circles to include a couple of the northern constellations--Ursa Minor and Draco. These constellations were added because the user had a limited view of the sky and needed more northerly stars on which to align. However, in general it is better to choose alignment …

Our encoder mount packages include encoders pre-installed on our Tele Vue mounts along with the cables necessary to work with your Digital Setting Circles or computer (DSC / Computer). This equipment greatly enhances your observing fun and capability of your telescope. We also sell an encoder kit (STN-4001) for existing mounts without encoders.The digital setting circles are markings visible on your telescope’s mount. There are more little computers that help you direct your telescope to locate a target astronomical object. They help astronomers in discovering angles and the pointing direction of a telescope toward a particular object.

DYI digital setting circles - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: In 1990 I designed digital setting circles for a German equatorial mount based on Hewlett-Packard 1000 count optical encoders and discrete IC counter chips and IC support circuitry. The readout is red LED numerals. It works well but I have found that eventually the RA …

Digital Setting Circles are a lot easier to use for finding objects, but analog setting circles can do something that the DSCs can't: Allow you to accurately polar align in daylight. This is of course unimportant for a permanently mounted setup, but it can be important for a portable one.Sep 4, 2017 ... Learn to use the Push To feature in Deep-Sky Planner with Nexus DSC over WiFi.Digital Setting Circle systems do not on their own make a telescope move in any direction to any position such as "Closed Loop Computer Controlled" Systems may do. These systems are essentially composed of three components a "Central Processing Unit" (CPU) computer, two encoders, and the mechanical hardware necessary to attach the encoder to a ...A circle is not a polygon because it does not conform to the definition of a polygon. The definition of a polygon is a closed figure formed by straight lines or straight sides. Alt...

What are Digital Setting Circles? You probably already know that setting circles are markings on a telescope’s mount that help you point the telescope toward a particular …

Page 1 of 17 - $37 Dobsonian DSC for DIY makers - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: This project is an implementation of a simple Digital Setting Circles, that evolves from my previous DSC project, but now using an inexpensive optical encoder (and GT2 timing belt+gear) instead of the magnetometer. This DSC achieves the following: …

Location: South Wales. Posted September 6, 2008. I've got the televue digital setting circles on a televue gibraltar alt az mount. I REALLY like them. They are very easy to set up - level, then find two stars, and you're off. If you don't want to see the planets you don't even have to input date, time and location. You don’t need any of the options like index, ball bearings, etc. Encoders are rated in counts per revolution (CPR), but because we use both channels in quadrature mode, the actual resolution (what I call tics/rev) is four times the CPR. So, encoders rated at 1024 CPR will give us 4096 tics/rev, or about 0.09 degrees per tic (assuming a gear ... Nexus-II combines Digital Setting Circles and USB Serial To Wifi interface in one powerful package. Nexus-II is a multifunctional WiFi telescope interface. Using the advantages of WiFi, Nexus allows seamless interfacing of your telescope to the most popular planetarium software running on WiFi compatible computing devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod ... Taurus DSC (Digital Setting Circles) is an object guidance system that, in combination with an astronomical application, helps to quickly locate any object on the sky map. The system constantly monitors the position of the telescope using the encoders located in its two axes. The Nexus II is one member of a family of digital setting circles devices developed by Serge Antonov, owner of Astro Devices. While the Nexus DSC product itself is a full featured DSC system consisting of the hardware/software and LED displays that enable anyone to dial in a selected astronomical object, the Nexus II is essentially the …

Need Help Picking Digital Setting Circles - posted in Mounts: My M2C mount is due to ship in a few days and Im on the fence about getting digital setting circles for it. I would appreciate your thoughts on: - Is the cost justified by the utility they provide? - Which models work the best with an Android smartphone (I dont have a tablet)? - On which side of the mount should the scope be mounted ...DESCRIPTION. When purchasing digital setting circles for your telescope, you’ll also need to have encoders installed on your scope - without these, your DSC has no way of interfacing with your telescope. The encoders are attached to your telescope’s axes and send signals to your DSC, letting it determine the position of your telescope. The ...DSC stands for Digital Setting Circle. It is a computer that connects to your telescope. It tells you what you are looking at, or where to move your telescope to look at a selected object. I have found that DSCs are invaluable for observing under Los Angeles skies. The light pollution here makes it impossible to star hop to most deep sky ...Hardware set #1 (Flush sided as with a TeleKit) is shown at left below in Photo 1. Hardware set #2 (side protrusions as with a Obsession) is shown below in Photo 2. ... Sky Commander Digital Setting Circles XP-4 Flash v 5.02. Sky Commander mounted on Zhumell Z-8. Sky Commander Computer with Zhumell Hardware SetWhen it comes to designing your garden pathway, there are countless options to explore. One increasingly popular choice among homeowners is the use of circle paving sets. Circle pa...

Greater accuracy: Digital setting circles use electronic sensors and computer algorithms to provide precise coordinates, eliminating errors caused by mechanical mechanisms and human interpretation. Real-time updates: Digital setting circles can be connected to software or GPS systems to automatically update celestial coordinates, ensuring ...At the request of a user, I updated my ASCOM Driver for Digital Setting Circles to include a couple of the northern constellations–Ursa Minor and Draco. These constellations were added because the user had a limited view of the sky and needed more northerly stars on which to align. However, in general it is better to choose alignment stars ...

Powered by a Teensy 3.1, Aaron’s digital setting circles allow connecting your computer, iPad or Android device to your telescope via WiFi to more easily find any object in the night sky. More information on the project can be found on the Teensy-DSC Wiki. The code for the project can be at TeensyDSC on GitHub.Advanced Digital Setting Circles Nexus DSC is an advanced digital setting circles computer for your telescope that packs all the latest technologies into a device designed for your telescope. DESCRIPTION Using the advantages of WiFi, the Nexus DSC allows for the seamless interfacing of your telescope to the most popular planetarium software ...Asterion Push To Kit - Digital Setting Circles with WiFi for Dobsonian Telescopes The search for the observation objects with a classical Dobsonian telescope requires some effort even for experienced observers. For beginners it is very tedious and so always the same objects are set. Exciting, but hard to find celestial objects are denied.Hubble SkyHub2 Digital Setting Circle comes with revolutionary high resolution (8192 PPR), extremely compact, and highly energy efficient ball bearing encoders. It is 80% more power efficient, and is only about 15% size of a traditional encoder. The 5VDC USB battery bank is required. About 100 hours operation time can be expected for an ...Digital setting circles are almost standard now. Their apparent advantage is that accurate alignment is not a requirement for visual observation as any inaccuracy can be factored out by calculations. The setting circles of the Questar predate any of this but it was designed to actually work. The only requirement is that the platform that the ...Many telescope-setting circles need to be bigger or better marked to be helpful. The digital setting circle aids in pointing the telescope by utilizing rotary encoders attached to the telescope’s axes. A computer monitors this movement and continuously reports the telescope’s direction to the user. Applications of Digital Setting Circles:The Pixel 8a is the first device in the Pixel A-series to offer a 120Hz refresh rate on the display. Google only offered 60Hz on the Pixel 6a and 90Hz on the Pixel 7a. This …

Oct 19, 2016 ... Part 2 of setting up SkyCommander Digital Setting Circles with the ServoCat GoTo/Tracking system on a Teeter's Telescope.

What are Digital Setting Circles? You probably already know that setting circles are markings on a telescope’s mount that help you point the telescope toward a particular …

Place the small star washer and nut over the encoder shaft and tighten with a 1⁄2" wrench, crescent wrench or square nose pliers. Press the encoder shaft into the Tension Knob and tighten the pivot bolt setscrew with the supplied 5/64" hex key. Mark the end hole of the arm on the rocker box bottom and drill 1⁄2" deep with a 1/8" bit.Leaving a slight bit of tension in the set screw will allow you to rotate the setting circle without needing tools, but also allow enough friction for the drive to keep the R.A. accurate for the entire observing session. Finding objects without use of the R.A. circle is done fairly easily as well, more on that later.Jan 31, 2021 · Page 1 of 8 - DIY Digital setting circles Wifi /Bluetooth with 2 encoders - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: I am sharing with you all the details of my arduino WiFi / Bluetooth Digital Setting Circles project I put together in April 2020 and tested dozens of times since then. I designed it for communication with SkySafary and it worked flawlesly from day one. The code was written with ... dobsonian setting circles - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Has anyone utilized a digital level/inclinometer and a digital compass to acheive alt/az ability? Looks like you could set the compass on a small shelf. Point the telescope at polaris then rotate the compass back to 0. That gives you the azimuth dial. Then mount the digital …Digital Setting Circles for Orion U-mount - posted in Binoculars: Hi All, I have the Orion BT-100 binoculars which I use with the Orion U-mount. I love using the binoculars while my imaging rig is doing its thing. I have a red dot finder mounted on the binoculars and use Sky Safari on my tablet to find things. Back in the old days I fitted a NGC-Max digital setting circles kit to my Losmandy G ...#1 Neilstar. Lift Off. topic starter. Posts: 23. Joined: 01 Mar 2020. Posted 04 May 2020 - 09:50 PM. Hi all, I am just getting back into astronomy and wanted to ask if I … Taurus DSC (Digital Setting Circles) is an object guidance system that, in combination with an astronomical application, helps to quickly locate any object on the sky map. The system constantly monitors the position of the telescope using the encoders located in its two axes. My goal is digital setting circles as cheaply as possible (but accurate enough of course). Im using some salvage parts, some things I already had, and some cheaper hobby grade stuff. The housings are 3d printed. This is all going on an older but new to me Meade LCD 500B mount holding my refurb/rescued Celestron C8N.Page 1 of 17 - $37 Dobsonian DSC for DIY makers - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: This project is an implementation of a simple Digital Setting Circles, that evolves from my previous DSC project, but now using an inexpensive optical encoder (and GT2 timing belt+gear) instead of the magnetometer. This DSC achieves the following: …A circle does not have any vertices. Vertices (plural for “vertex”) are corners, or the place where two straight lines come together to form a point. Circles do not have straight l...

MAIN FEATURES. Dual power source – internal 9V battery, or external 9-25V DC. Operating temperatures range from -20ºC – 50ºC (-4ºF – 120º) Supports extended Ouranos, Bbox, and Sky Commander communication protocols. Handles TTL quadrature optical encoders with practically unlimited number of pulses per second. More recent "digital setting circles," electronic readouts that tell where a telescope is pointed, can be vastly more accurate and useful; they're described at the …1 Sky Commander Digital Setting Circle Computer 1 Sky Commander Digital Setting Circle Manual 2 Encoders – 10,000 step Lightbridge Model 1 Cable set 10" 12" 16" 1 Altitude Encoder Mount 6" 7" 8.6" 1 Altitude Encoder Tangent Arm 4.5" 4.5" 5.5" Alt. Cable 32" 42" 54" Az. Cable ...PSA: Do not post your deepest darkest secrets on your Twitter Circle. It might surface on your Followers' For You timeline. PSA: Do not post your deepest darkest secrets on your Tw...Instagram:https://instagram. ley lines in virginialyrics for lyrics pranksam and dave auto salesusssa softball tournaments 2023 USB Digital Setting Circles. Credit for this version of the circuit goes to Jimbo Harris. The serial version of the DSC circuit described in these pages is readily adapted to use with a USB-serial conversion cable. In fact, FTDI makes the TTL-232R-5V cable that converts TTL-level serial data coming straight from the PIC into USB for the PC ... daniels funeral home obituarywhy is the winchester 9422 so expensive Aug 29, 2020 · The Nexus II is one member of a family of digital setting circles devices developed by Serge Antonov, owner of Astro Devices. While the Nexus DSC product itself is a full featured DSC system consisting of the hardware/software and LED displays that enable anyone to dial in a selected astronomical object, the Nexus II is essentially the same thing, minus the digital readout. Page 1 of 4 - Adapting Digital Setting Circles to Homemade GEM - Questions - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: My homemade German equatorial mount is now over 50 years old. Since I am considerably older than that, it seems like outfitting the GEM with digital setting circles would be a tremendous aid in ease of … beth abbott dobsonian setting circles - posted in ATM, Optics and DIY Forum: Has anyone utilized a digital level/inclinometer and a digital compass to acheive alt/az ability? Looks like you could set the compass on a small shelf. Point the telescope at polaris then rotate the compass back to 0. That gives you the azimuth dial. Then mount the digital level on the tube near the focuser. That gives the ...The setting circles can be used to help set the home position of the scope, but beyond that their use is only if you have a manual mount and use the RA/DEC circles to actually help point the scope. I have written an FAQ for …