mw season

 Finally time to get out the nebula filter.

wolf-rayet wr134 in cygnus
veTEC571 on sv550     120x4min @ hcg100

supernova remnant ngc6888 crescent in cygnus

veTEC571 on sv550     80x4min @ hcg100

bright nebula lbn251 in cygnus
veTEC571 on sv550     40x4min @ hcg100

autofirma

We need the PFX/PKCS#12 option to find our .p12 certificate:
 

quadro p5000

Install the nvidia drivers. It's just two cliks:

 nvidia-smi

Sun Jul  5 13:36:18 2026        

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 580.159.03             Driver Version: 580.159.03     CUDA Version: 13.0     |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |

|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

|   0  Quadro P5000                   Off |   00000000:03:00.0  On |                  Off |

| 28%   45C    P0             37W /  180W |     431MiB /  16384MiB |      0%      Default |

|                                         |                        |                  N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

Install the toolkit:
sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

Launch setiastrosuitepro.py. It will create the runtime venv on the first start at:
~/.local/share/SASpro/runtime/py31x

Activate the venv (under py312 or py314)
Than it's simply:

cd ~/.local/share/SASpro/runtime/py312
or, depending upon which python version you used to build the git:
cd ~/.local/share/SASpro/runtime/py314

. venv/bin/activate

Install torch:
pip install torch==2.10.0 torchvision==0.25.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu126

Don't forget to install some models:

IT cooling solutions S.A.

 Hi tech cooling when it's 30º ambient.

1. server: kubuntu 26.04
6c/12t Xeon -32Gb ram - cooler beneath

 kstars  indi  phd2   RustDesk

2. client: kubuntu 26.04
n95

RustDesk over h265

3. processing: kubuntu 26.04
z420: 12c/24t Xeon -128Gb ram - rtx3060

SetiAstroSuitePro - DarkTable

processor thermals

junio

Spent a lot of time trying to find suitable targets to image before Cepheus rotated high enough, hence the clusters.

sv550 80mm

dark nebula ldn1082 seahorse in cepheus
veTEC571 on sv550    120x4min @ hcg100

open cluster ngc6659 in hercules
12x4min

open cluster ngc6791 in lyra
12x4min

open cluster ngc6811 in cygnus

open cluster ngc7023 and reflection nebula lbn487 iris in cepheus
veTEC571 on sv550    118x4min @ hcg100

sasp qt wayland stuff

Environment variables don't seem to apply in virtual environments, so how about a script?

Install the py binding stuff in the activated venv:

pip install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL_accelerate

Then launch:

#/bin/bash

cd /home/steve/sasp-314
. venv/bin/activate
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
export QT_OPENGL=desktop
python setiastrosuitepro.py
/bin/bash

solstice

 

The sun reaches a turning point at 09:24 CEST today when it is overhead on the Tropic of Cancer. Astro darkness at Alicante is 23:26