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    Orbiter Video Thread

    Sort of an Orbiter video, I tracked the Hubble Space Telescope this weekend with my telescope and was able to optically resolve the elongated shape of HST. With help from Orbiter and BrianJ's excellent HST-Ex mod I was able to confirm that Hubble was showing the expected attitude given its...
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    Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)

    Worth mentioning that the jet associated with M87's supermassive black hole can be imaged even with amateur telescope equipment. I took this image of it last night with my 8" LX200 classic, SBIG ST-2000XCM and AO-7 adaptive optics, stacking 1 hour and 5 minutes with 5 minute sub-exposures:
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    Astrophoto thread (your own photos please)

    Dropcanvas stopped existing, so all my old photos are sadly gone. Oh well. Here's a new one I took last night of M87 with its black hole jet, the same black hole imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope project. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RkqqRk3NRB6QLpZKVn0Qv6sZM91C_ITs/view?usp=sharing 8"...
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    Launch News SpaceX Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A

    Here's my video of launch to landing:
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    OHM Falcon9 Block4

    Thank you Brian, this is great!
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    Launch News SpaceX CRS-15 Mission (June 29th, 09:42:42 UTC)

    Sure! I wrote it in visual basic to perform manual joystick (at arbitrary smooth slew speeds depending on the level of joystick deflection and throttle) and automatic optical tracking of fast moving objects, including rocket launches. It uses the LX200 classic command set and that's all it's...
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    Launch News SpaceX CRS-15 Mission (June 29th, 09:42:42 UTC)

    A couple of still shots from my tracking: ---------- Post added 06-30-18 at 10:33 AM ---------- Previous post was 06-29-18 at 02:52 PM ---------- Telescopic tracking footage:
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    Launch News SpaceX CRS-15 Mission (June 29th, 09:42:42 UTC)

    Beautiful launch, the rocket hitting sunlight was really something special. I'll upload my footage later, it was really gorgeous.
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    Gaming Digital Combat Simulator Thread

    I'm pretty resilient to VR-induced motion sickness. Granted, the kind of flying I typically do in FSX with FlyInside for the Oculus is much more... gentle. I put my girlfriend in it and she almost lost her cookies the first time even with just flying a prop in FSX.
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    Gaming Digital Combat Simulator Thread

    Anyone here using an Oculus with DCS? I have an X-52 Pro and a rift and I'd like to really get into flying DCS but I find it quite cumbersome to grab my touch controllers to try to actuate switches in the cockpit while also flying with the hotas. Is everything needed during combat pretty much...
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    DSKY external interface

    Bru57000 on YouTube already has done just that. I don't know if he's here on the forum, but you should have a chat with him to see how he did it: It sounds like he re-inserted the TCP/IP functions for the virtual AGC back into NASSP's source code.
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    Bug NASSP Issue with AGC clock sync

    Got it, thanks, that makes sense. I might try that scenario again then just for kicks. Yeah I'm going to keep a close eye on it with my real-time play through and see if it happens again. I'm saving the scenario about every hour and it's still fine so far, but if it messes up during the...
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    Bug NASSP Issue with AGC clock sync

    Yeah, I don't know when it happened but it seemed pretty sudden; prior to launch it was just fine, I saved the scenario about 30 minutes after the launch and shut down. When I came back to the scenario later I noticed it was several minutes off. I reloaded it several times just to make sure...
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    Bug NASSP Issue with AGC clock sync

    Hi all, I'm in the process of recording a real-time simulation of the entire Apollo 8 mission to sync up to the audio archives and play back during a webcast on the 50th anniversary in December. In doing a practice run with the Apollo 8 MCC scenario I found that the AGC's reported mission...
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    Updates InSight mission news and updates

    Here's some ground telescope tracking I did of InSight during its departure:
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