Locating Targets: Plate-solving Hacks (Stellarium/Sharpcap ,Electronically_Assisted Astronomy - EAA)
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2023
- This Emerald Hills Skylet covers some cool Plate-solving Hacks -- including ways you can locate Astro Targets by finding them first in Stellarium, then, using custom code we'll supply for free, instantly apply cross-hairs on those targets in you live EAA views in Sharpcap (using electronically-assisted astronomy -- EAA). Thanks for taking part!
Note that there is some lag in this video - but I think the message still gets across. My laptop had a lot going on. (I tried using OBS as a screen recorder. Maybe next time, I'll just live-stream it and be done with it.)
We owe special thanks to Pete, an EAA-er from the Isle of Wight, an island in the English Channel (UK). Pete developed the code featured in this video. To copy the code and use it in your own EAA sessions, just go to:
emeraldhillsskies.com/resources/
To see other videos, including Pete's very own EAA sessions, just click to:
www.youtube.com/@Xio2011/videos
Electronically-assisted Astronomy (EAA) opens up new vistas for those who would never be able to make time to travel to view the heavenlies through a scope like our RASA 11-inch with a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro astro-camera and an Octopi-Astro camera interface. Operating on an iOptron CEM70G mount from a Pier-Tech Tele-Station 2 observatory on a Pier-Tech Adjustable-Height pier for precision "Go-To" targeting, in this video, we feature another episode of "Cosmic Challenge."
Thanks for joining us! Astronomy is now a team sport!
We'll hope to play some background music for the first time in this session. We plan to use music from Stellardrone:
stellardrone.bandcamp.com
/ stellardrone
/ stellardrone
We're grateful for their great sound. All of their music is used here under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Unported License and is being used without having changed the tracks. creativecommons.org/licenses/... The track list we hope to use:
Some might be interested in the equipment and software that we use. For whatever it's worth, we're relying on the following:
Optical Tube Assembly: 11-inch Celestron Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph telescope
Mount: iOptron CEM70G
Primary Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Observatory: Pier-Tech Tele-station 2
Pier: Pier-Tech Adjustable-Height Pier
Dew Shield: Celestron 11 RASA Aluminum Dew Shield
All-Sky Camera - ZWO ASI178MM
ScopeCam - TP-Link TAPO C325WB
The USB hub on the equipment plate (riding up on the scope) is a Pegasus Astro USB Control Hub.
That equipment plate also carries a Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox Micro to power the USB Hub and cameras, as well as control the dew heater bands to prevent dew build-up on the two cameras.
Filter: Celestron Light-Pollution Imaging Filter
Focus Motor: Celestron Focus Motor
Focusing Software: NINA with Hocus Focus plug-in by George Hilios (jokogeo)
Streaming software: OSB with Stream Deck
Planetarium software: Stellarium
Imaging (EAA) software: Sharpcap
Portable operating solution: icron USB Raven 3124 USB 3-2-1 Extender operating indoors, approximately 200 feet from the observatory, with data being transported via fiber-optic cable
12V Power distributed by a power distribution by RIGrunner 4005i by West Mountain Radio
110V Power distributed by a Tripp Lite 14 Outlet Network-Grade Rackmount PDU, 15A Power Strip
Rack at base of scope: Gator Cases Pro Series Rotationally Molded 4U Rack Case (G-PRO-4U-13)
Please visit our website at:
emeraldhillsskies.com/
and the resource site for electronically-assisted astronomy at...
eaa101.com
and our online store at:
emerald-hills-skies.myspreads...
Thanks for joining us!
Doug
Thank you Doug, appreciate the instruction 😊
Tiffany, it’s like you have the gift of encouragement.
You can use an external HDMI captured device with OBS.
Hi Jeff. Yes, i think i might just try live-streaming first. i’ve been doing that for a couple of years without much difficulty. thanks!!
That music in the background was also a high-def video playing in yet another browser on the same PC. I can reduce some load on my processor by playing that music on another device and piping it in as an audio source. Thanks for your feedback..
Problem with video, I did not understand what's going on. Sorry.
Hi Okeania. So sorry. The process is indeed complex. first things first, if you didn’t already grasp EAA, try watching some of my live streams first.