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Post by davy on Apr 11, 2020 15:10:14 GMT
Good introduction to what a raspberry pi is, When I first looked at the use of raspberry pi, like most it was with zwo doing the asiair they used when raspberry pi3,, raspberry pi4 is like race car to the pedal car pi3, For astronomy I would recommend the 4gb version,, simply it should be better for the stuff we do. Lot of the information you will find about the pi will tell you,, to use a certain size of memory card,, my thoughts are,, we do video capture and the video files take up a fair bit of giga bites,, couple of ways to handle it is a large gb micro sd,, I bought a 128gb card,, the capture files will be stored on this,, ideal for grab n go kit,, second is to use a 16gb or 32gb,, think astroberry is about 7gb unzipped file,, Add a laptop external hard drive plugged into the pi and use it to capture images or video. I bought my latest rpi4 4gb for £43, an sd card will cost about £10,, software is all free,,
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2020 1:55:50 GMT
Davy, this post is done on the Pi4 with Raspian and Astroberry and Chromium as the web browser . Not sure why it is called Chromium because it is identical to Google Chrome. Getting sick of waiting for decent weather to try out the ASiair Pro so thought I would add CCDCiel to Astroberry.The other thing I would like to do is connect the Pi to my old and very slow celeron laptop and use it as a screen and keyboard for the pi cheers Paul
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Post by davy on Apr 12, 2020 2:40:35 GMT
Hi Paul,, the post was just to give folk an intro into what the rpi4 is, what it looks like,, to use it for video astronomy the testing and tutorial from old stash is the way to go,, CdC is my preferred planetarium,, not used it a long time,, but this is the way to go for me personally ,, but quite happy to use K stars, got the hang of it,, would use it as a full package if the camera control was better,, Oacapture is well worth using till I get to grips with ccdciel. Firecapture has been released to astroberry,, not shure if its bug free for install yet,, I saw a post on cloudy nights, but developer had looked into it,, so I imagine it should be OK from Firecapture website
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