Your advice about revisiting old data to reprocess it is truly on point. I have a dataset which is only about 90 minutes worth of lights on NGC7000 taken through my 4" refractor with an un-modded DSLR. As I have acquired new tools and skills I have reprocessed that data no fewer than 9 times. I finally have an image that I am proud to use as the desktop background on my 21" monitor, and to share with others...it's still not perfect but all things considered, I'm pretty happy with it. Always retain your raw data! It may be better than you first thought. You should always hang on to your early "finished" images too, just to show yourself how much your processing skills have improved.
Yep. Not only saving it because it's "old data" but it could just be a project you build on over the years. Say you start with 4 hours on the Rosette. Well, if you frame it the same way (easily doable with the AIR), you can add more to the stack a few years down the road :)
Many thanks for this video, that was exactly what I was looking for! I sold my laptop and started using only my steam deck as a PC. I am a just getting into astrophotography and was happy to get help with your video.
I'm glad it helped! I was just messing around in desktop mode and I saw Stellarium, then Siril...and I knew about dual booting, so it got me thinking about it. Just watch it when processing, like I said, some scripts will take a long time!
Thanks for this video. I'd like to know if a base model Steam Deck is a good option for primarily visual astronomers who only need a Windows machine for polar alignment with iPolar or PoleMaster. The screen looks big enough for alignment, yet the unit is small enough to be portable and easy to pack away when alignment is finished.
If you did it with JUST the deck and nothing else, you'll need to put windows on a microSD card and install bluestacks. But, if you have an external monitor, you can use a USB stick for the windows install. Have fun with that ASI AIR!
Unfortunately it seems the version of kstars in the discover store doesn't include eKos so it seems you cannot use the steam deck to control your AP equipment.
Gphoto2 is also not available in the discover store so as of now I can't find a way to do camera control from the deck without doing system packages. Those will get destroyed on the next steamOS update. Somebody did suggest installing windows on an SD card and dual booting, then using windows for AP control. Which would work but eew. No pyQT either so can't run my own poledancer tool either. Since I'm just trying to operate a barn door tracker I didn't find it worth the effort to dig further when an intervalometer costs 20 bucks. But these are all solveable problems. For example you could use a desktop to build a kstars build with eKos as an appimage. Anything that installs to your home directory is directly supported.
@@a.j.venter16 You also have the option to use Nix packages since SteamOS 3.5 but this requires learning the Nix synthax. And there are also a pre-installed version of Distrobox and Podman since SteamOS 3.5 but they can be outadted so the Distrobox project has a Steam Deck guide to install a more recent version of Distrobox in $HOME and have it used instead of the pre-installed distrobox package. Both methods are definitely for advanced users but are available and with their own pros and cons. (Nix packages installation is the more "native path path with less "moving parts" but Distrobox theorically allows to use any linux package format to install an app.)
Your advice about revisiting old data to reprocess it is truly on point. I have a dataset which is only about 90 minutes worth of lights on NGC7000 taken through my 4" refractor with an un-modded DSLR. As I have acquired new tools and skills I have reprocessed that data no fewer than 9 times. I finally have an image that I am proud to use as the desktop background on my 21" monitor, and to share with others...it's still not perfect but all things considered, I'm pretty happy with it. Always retain your raw data! It may be better than you first thought. You should always hang on to your early "finished" images too, just to show yourself how much your processing skills have improved.
Yep. Not only saving it because it's "old data" but it could just be a project you build on over the years. Say you start with 4 hours on the Rosette. Well, if you frame it the same way (easily doable with the AIR), you can add more to the stack a few years down the road :)
Many thanks for this video, that was exactly what I was looking for! I sold my laptop and started using only my steam deck as a PC. I am a just getting into astrophotography and was happy to get help with your video.
I'm glad it helped! I was just messing around in desktop mode and I saw Stellarium, then Siril...and I knew about dual booting, so it got me thinking about it. Just watch it when processing, like I said, some scripts will take a long time!
Thanks for this video. I'd like to know if a base model Steam Deck is a good option for primarily visual astronomers who only need a Windows machine for polar alignment with iPolar or PoleMaster. The screen looks big enough for alignment, yet the unit is small enough to be portable and easy to pack away when alignment is finished.
Great idea Daylon, Just got an asi air and was thinking of a tablet for larger screen, this may be another option 👍🏻
If you did it with JUST the deck and nothing else, you'll need to put windows on a microSD card and install bluestacks. But, if you have an external monitor, you can use a USB stick for the windows install. Have fun with that ASI AIR!
@@AstroEscape thank you, love your RUclips channel btw 👍🏻
I use bluestacks 5 my laptop and my quest 3 with virtual desktop
Unfortunately it seems the version of kstars in the discover store doesn't include eKos so it seems you cannot use the steam deck to control your AP equipment.
Thanks for adding that. I noticed it was there but didn't go much beyond that (with Kstars). Maybe in a future version?
Gphoto2 is also not available in the discover store so as of now I can't find a way to do camera control from the deck without doing system packages. Those will get destroyed on the next steamOS update.
Somebody did suggest installing windows on an SD card and dual booting, then using windows for AP control. Which would work but eew.
No pyQT either so can't run my own poledancer tool either.
Since I'm just trying to operate a barn door tracker I didn't find it worth the effort to dig further when an intervalometer costs 20 bucks. But these are all solveable problems. For example you could use a desktop to build a kstars build with eKos as an appimage. Anything that installs to your home directory is directly supported.
@@a.j.venter16 You also have the option to use Nix packages since SteamOS 3.5 but this requires learning the Nix synthax. And there are also a pre-installed version of Distrobox and Podman since SteamOS 3.5 but they can be outadted so the Distrobox project has a Steam Deck guide to install a more recent version of Distrobox in $HOME and have it used instead of the pre-installed distrobox package.
Both methods are definitely for advanced users but are available and with their own pros and cons. (Nix packages installation is the more "native path path with less "moving parts" but Distrobox theorically allows to use any linux package format to install an app.)