First, you need to extract your stars from the main image using Starnet2, Star Xterminator etc. The meteor will be merged into the stars image when we have extracted it as below.

The scale below has been reversed from the Webb Society scale which puts excellent values at 1 and poor values at 5 in order to match Meteoblue. However the exact decriptions may not tally exactly with the Meteoblue astronomers’ forecast. To be monitored.

9th October 2022 After lots of tweaking and testing on Windows 10 and 11, the issues with the focusser finally seem to be resolved. I wish I could say definitively why the focussers hadn’t worked on either of the rigs but the common factor in the solution in both cases was new, high-quality micro USB to USB A cables and connecting to USB 3.0 ports rather then USB 2 ports. The takeaway from this is not to swap equipment between set-ups in Windows for fear of upsetting the flaky and…

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From the Astrofarsography Youtube video at Practical Astronomy Show 2019 in Kettering.

9th July 2022 I recalibrated PHD2 on the EQ6R-Pro last night which worked fine. I then successfully guided to an acceptable standard. Unfortunately high cloud affected to whole evening’s imaging so only a few poor subs were captured across both the scopes. At the moment I am putting recent guiding woes down to poor transparency. To be monitored however and I will run PPEC at some point to see if guiding is improved further.

6th July 2022 I rebalanced the mount last night and realigned using the NINA Three Point Polar Alignment. The balance was slightly off and the polar alignment was four arc-minutes out on the declination axis. This might have contributed to the recent poor guiding. it is now set to within 13 arc-seconds. Unfortunately the capture sequence failed when the sky became overcast. I did however manage to get some nice footage of the waxing moon before nautical dusk fell.

Get .deb file from this location (update version and Ubuntu version as required): https://github.com/wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder/releases/download/v4.1.0/wxformbuilder_4.1.0_ubuntu-22.04_amd64.deb ) and install it with the package manager. (The path for future versions may need to be verified.)