<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">First of all, I am a Linux person, and want to use windows as little as possible. Second, I have been an amateur astronomer for over 20 yrs. and <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">an astrophotographer for about 2 years. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !!!!! for building a astrophotography platform that does not rely <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">on Windows / ascom. And really works, and does not make me feel like a 2nd class citizen. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I do like that I have been able to put indilib on a raspberry pi, runs my zwo devices, I can use my laptop in my house (warm) wirelessly. Save the pics <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">on a pi flash drive or on my laptop. I do use windows deep sky stacker, would like to move that off windows..... and I can use Gimp 2.10+ on Linux instead of <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">photoshop / pix insight / etc. I know stellar mate is out there, like building my own, and you have kept me out of an ASI air which means I could buy a non-zwo camera.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Love it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I did run into something recently that was disappointing. Simply, because I did not do any alignment (or plate solve in particular), pointed the scope at the eclipse moon directly.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I did get a preview picture (fits) of the moon, but I found I could not save any of them, because it had no world coordinates, ie. save would not work because the fits picture <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">did not have and could not be plate solved to get those coordinates. I understand it wanting to complain about data it does not have. My complaint is that it needs to find a way <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">to save the file anyway, no matter how problems it has. I realize a read-only file system would be a show stopper. But it should work if it can't get some / all the file header info <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">it wants. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My scenario is that I live with clouds, they stop me often enough. On this night, it was somewhat broken clouds in parts of the sky. By the time I really wanted to polar align, <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">the clouds blocked that, essentially for the time I wanted to take photos. But I could crudely get past that (home position roughly pretty good). I had an optical, not camera, <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">finder scope, and could get to the moon when clouds were not too heavy. Seeing stars however, was not possible. So plate solving was simply not going to work. So like I said,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I could get a preview picture, but could not save it (always got the no coordinates error popup). You might tell me that if I had scheduled a single shot and told it where to save, that might have worked. I realized later that <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">if I had been determined, I could have saved the whole preview window and clipped the picture of it with gimp later. But I really want preview save to work, and I think you all <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">would too. I don't know but maybe the same problem might exist if somebody wanted to take preview snaps of the sun with a solar filter? I also understand if I had a DSLR <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">as the camera, this would not be a problem, but I am one of the people who don't, so I really needed this to work.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If there is other software that would work with ekos and let me save the photo, I am interested, but I currently doubt that kind of integration currently exists. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks again, I really appreciate all the work that has been done and is still going,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Wally Knesel<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>