Can Astrophotography Be This EASY??? Testing Out The SeeStarS50 LIVE
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2024
- The ZWO SeeStarS50 is a smart telescope that's pretty easy to use and operate. I wanted to give it a go LIVE and show how it works for those who are unsure if its worth the $500 price tag for astrophotography (it is!)
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I happened to stumble across this stream randomly and just wanted to say it put a smile on my face seeing how excited you are to be playing with this awesome piece of technology!
Loved the stream!
Thanks Bearbear! I love playing with technology and I’ve been very excited with these smart telescopes now that I can stream them with the new “station mode” for everyone as I love to do outreach which is what I was doing in person before starting my RUclips channel!
Can you comment more on making a mosaic manually? I can simulate the setup on telescopious, and it would give me coordinates.
Keep working at it and stay happy.
Very happy reviewing smart telescopes! I’m just hoping that solar eclipse is cloud free!
How do I save my image? Before moving to another target.
It saves stacked images automatically on the SeeStar’s internal hard drive. However in the setting you can tell it to also save all the info vial images taken and you can also stack the images on a computer and with processing pull out additional detail.
Thanks
Liked your video on the Seestar S50, and in fact got me one.........impressed so far with how easy and well it works. I am curious about your comments regarding taking images of Orion for example over several nights and have questions is I may: 1) Do you put all the subs from each night in one folder and use ASIStudio or another stacker to put them together, or: 2) Do you stack each nights images separately (our use the stack the Seestar makes each night) and then stack those composites for the final image to edit; and 3) What are your referring to as a "mosaic"....generally that is putting small pieces of an image together, do you mean to piece parts of the nebula into a final image? Thanks for your patience, all new to this!
Hey Bill! No problems we were all "New" at somepoint, myself especially! So I go with option 1, and align and stack all the images to my "ideal" framing so they all line up the same and then stack them all at once. You can do option 2, especially if your computer struggles with option 1 (I have 64GB of ram so I've done 2000 images at once) but you have to do the additional steps to reach your end result, unless you pixel peep once you likely won't notice a difference.
As for "mosics" this is for larger targets that are bigger than the field of view / framing of the Seestar S50, then I would take images of various part of the target, align and make a mosaic with 1 frame from each part of the target. Make sure the stars are aligned etc. and then star align them all together to that base mosaic and then stack each "part" seperately and take the final images and re-mosic them together for the final image... yes they are a lot more work but once you get the hang of 2-3 it gets a lot easier.
Hope this is helpful, feel free to ask my any adidtional questions you may have as you set forth into the night :)
Thanks for the information.............one last question, do you collect your subs in one night by doing multiple starts and stops of say 30 minute runs, or do you take the sets over several nights trying to collect them at about the same time each night to make alignment easier? Clear Skies...........Bill
I have some targets where I've taken several hours of footage on them over several nights that I'll be showing in my full review once I have time to process all the data@@billmeador215
Ok, thanks.................will watch for the coming video!
How do I save my image?
Bottom right opens the save files and you can download them to your phone from there, however note that the current image doesn’t show up until you are finished.
Any chance this thing will follow a decent pass of the ISS? I'm considering purchasing and this is just an also to question. Thanks
It does not have ISS tracking abilities and I'm 90% sure the top slew of the motors aren't fast enough. The ISS is one fast object.
Your best bet its to use transit-finder.com/ and image the ISS or Tiangong when one or the other passes in front of the Sun or Moon.
Do your ever meas with your settings
I’ve changed some settings and played around in the advance menu, however the base settings actually do the best job for this scope currently. Things like 20-30second exposures work but in alt-az mode you loose a lot from star streaking that it’s not worth the effort vs. the standard 10 seconds.
I’ll explore tilting the scope more for polar alignment and going longer durations but I loose part of the southern sky (unless I figure out how to mount the scope so it’s pointing south and only loose the northern sky…)
Single frame is possible after last firmware upgrade 10, 20 or 30 sec
Yes, however after some testing you'd have to put it into equitorial angle to get any real advantage to it as you loose too many 20 & 30 second subs to motion as the SeeStar S50 wasn't truely design to go that long. They only added it after people found it was available in a secret developer menu.
@@EmberSkyMedia Yes but if you put hem on a wedge you loose a lot of objects in south direction
The most southern objects would be lost if you align to polaris... unless you flip the scope upside down to point "south" as it will then work as if its in the southern hemisphere). I haven't tried it myself but you could give it a go if you want German equitorial with southern objects.
they already tried x2 lenses and it is not working
Thanks for the insight! Sorry to hear it was not successful!
Mosaic will be possible in one of the following upgrades
That's what I heard, looking forward to it and the rumoured imaging plan tool.
Is it available now?