This has an enormous potential, Kai. Thanks for caring and sharing :-) I do not own a seestar, but I am interested in EAA and science. In our astronomy club, members do own Seestars and others and we are using smart telescopes in public viewings.. As chaiman I like the idea of supporting science and education. I therefore had a discussion with the director of our local planetarium, which thinks about buying a Seestar for the astro youth. That's pretty d... cool :-) Cheers, Axel
I installed Seestar_ALP and Stellarium on my Windows 11, but I cannot choose ASCOM as interface. I can choose all the other ones, but not ASCOM. What am I doing wrong?
I downloaded the seestar alp from github and tried to follow this video, but get start in the config.toml. It looks nothing like you show. Is there another video that can help. I'm on windows 11.
Great, thank you so much Kai! : ) Any possibility to turn off the time tracker? This would be very useful when i am trying to observe geo-stationary satellites in the sky, e.g. Himawari 8, and 9. These satellites are already in Stellarium ~
Thx for the tutorial. But I have a problem. The Seestar does sync with it and also with Stellarium. However, when I select an object in Stellarium and want it to go there, it doesn’t work. What does work is that I can move the Seestar with the tablet, and it shows me in Stellarium that it is moving. Only the selection of a star and automatically slewing to it does not work. How can I fix this?
That’s wonderful Kai, I understand your interest has , among other things been mosaic and spectroscopy. However, and I hope I am not speaking out of turn, but a simple workflow labelled image target with might help clarify testing and basic functionality. … I realize simply changing the start mosaic I can be configured for 1x1 which is the same however single object one time shoot is perhaps the most common workflow among most of us. If 6ou say then go ahead and create it in Bruno then I will try however it will won’t happen today or tomorrow but only when I am able to find time to get into helping with this, which I am afraid may be some time from now. Just thinking to keep it simple end to end common functionality and then building off that. I know it helps to have the mosaic functionality for someone like your self to be motivated in the creative aspect of your software so kudos for that. We all appreciate it. …Ken
My thought is that a single panel target is just a 1x1 mosaic. Thus instead of creating another API entry for that, I just leave mosaic as a superset command. All the parameters not relevant to mosaics spacing will be ignored. Alternatively, anyone can create a new entry in Bruno and name it or organize it in any way they want. It's a platform so it is design for easy customization.
Hi Kai This sounds very interesting I have a question could this be used for scripted supernova hunting.I mean imaging a list of different galaxies on a given night. So the seestar would image one galaxy for say 5min then move on to the next target and so on.This would be a clever use of the seestar.I do supernova hunting with larger setups thanks
@@kai_seestar .Thanks this sounds very interesting.Could you use the Sky X as the driving software.So do you add a extra line for each target.So this would be what I would use.Slew to target,platesolve,image for 300 sec,move to next target.It would be good to do around 50-100 different targets.Also focus every hour.The target galaxies would be bright ones so be in all catalogs.What do you think
What you described is already very doable. No need for targets to be in catalogs since you can enter ra/Dec coordinates. Since Seestar is not really a light bucket, my strategy is to employ an array of them and control all with one instance.
Stellarium 0.22.2 is removed from there github, leaving only 23.1 as the nest closest, I downloaded the latest version 24.1 and ASCOM is not an option under adding telescopes
Seestar is connected to Stellarium and Bruno, I can open its with Bruno but when I open lense, cercle don't move on stellarium... Same if I do CTRL+0 to slew telescope to..
I am curious if this app will allow for autofocusing to be built into an imaging session at 20 minute intervals to compensate for temperature changes to the hardware?
Kai! I get the feeling that all of thios(so far!) is still in development stage!? As a beginner in astro, with Seestar; a lot of what is on here, seems to be aimed at people who know quite a bit about software, and its development! Am I correct? Maybe I and others, should check in with you, when THIS is ready for general use?Thanks for all your efforts!
As noted in my Facebook group and discord channel, I suggest to let us and the testers to go through the teething process before general use. Yes this framework can do many advanced things, but one goal I have is also to let typical Seestar users to do mosaics and night scheduling with just a few clicks. I may tape a video to demo that. The teething part is to arrive at an easy install for everyone.
THAT IS SIMPLY FANTASTIC!!!! ENOURMOUS WELL DONE JOB!!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!! Best best greetings and clear skies from Italy
This has an enormous potential, Kai.
Thanks for caring and sharing :-) I do not own a seestar, but I am interested in EAA and science. In our astronomy club, members do own Seestars and others and we are using smart telescopes in public viewings.. As chaiman I like the idea of supporting science and education. I therefore had a discussion with the director of our local planetarium, which thinks about buying a Seestar for the astro youth. That's pretty d... cool :-)
Cheers, Axel
Thanks for the tutorial. I have seestar-alp with the Steallarium integration working now.
I installed Seestar_ALP and Stellarium on my Windows 11, but I cannot choose ASCOM as interface. I can choose all the other ones, but not ASCOM. What am I doing wrong?
Great job done, Kai !! Thanks. Stephane (from Belgium)
Thanks, Artimon. Good to see you here. I am also looking for collaborators to extend this GitHub
I downloaded the seestar alp from github and tried to follow this video, but get start in the config.toml. It looks nothing like you show. Is there another video that can help. I'm on windows 11.
Nice. Excellent tutorial. Just need some clear nights now!
Great, thank you so much Kai! : )
Any possibility to turn off the time tracker? This would be very useful when i am trying to observe geo-stationary satellites in the sky, e.g. Himawari 8, and 9. These satellites are already in Stellarium ~
Thx for the tutorial. But I have a problem. The Seestar does sync with it and also with Stellarium. However, when I select an object in Stellarium and want it to go there, it doesn’t work. What does work is that I can move the Seestar with the tablet, and it shows me in Stellarium that it is moving. Only the selection of a star and automatically slewing to it does not work. How can I fix this?
@@SandroH. At around minute 17 of the video, you will see how you can bring up a dialog in Stellarrium to instruct Seestar to move to a location.
That’s wonderful Kai, I understand your interest has , among other things been mosaic and spectroscopy. However, and I hope I am not speaking out of turn, but a simple workflow labelled image target with might help clarify testing and basic functionality. … I realize simply changing the start mosaic I can be configured for 1x1 which is the same however single object one time shoot is perhaps the most common workflow among most of us. If 6ou say then go ahead and create it in Bruno then I will try however it will won’t happen today or tomorrow but only when I am able to find time to get into helping with this, which I am afraid may be some time from now. Just thinking to keep it simple end to end common functionality and then building off that. I know it helps to have the mosaic functionality for someone like your self to be motivated in the creative aspect of your software so kudos for that. We all appreciate it. …Ken
My thought is that a single panel target is just a 1x1 mosaic. Thus instead of creating another API entry for that, I just leave mosaic as a superset command. All the parameters not relevant to mosaics spacing will be ignored. Alternatively, anyone can create a new entry in Bruno and name it or organize it in any way they want. It's a platform so it is design for easy customization.
Hi Kai This sounds very interesting I have a question could this be used for scripted supernova hunting.I mean imaging a list of different galaxies on a given night. So the seestar would image one galaxy for say 5min then move on to the next target and so on.This would be a clever use of the seestar.I do supernova hunting with larger setups thanks
Yes, any GoTo, platesolve, focus, acquisition, loop, etc can be scripted and thus automated.
@@kai_seestar .Thanks this sounds very interesting.Could you use the Sky X as the driving software.So do you add a extra line for each target.So this would be what I would use.Slew to target,platesolve,image for 300 sec,move to next target.It would be good to do around 50-100 different targets.Also focus every hour.The target galaxies would be bright ones so be in all catalogs.What do you think
What you described is already very doable. No need for targets to be in catalogs since you can enter ra/Dec coordinates. Since Seestar is not really a light bucket, my strategy is to employ an array of them and control all with one instance.
Thank you for this cool video.
Is bruno needed or optional?
@@felixf4613 Bruno is useful to test out commands. SSC (simple web GUI) is simpler to use.
Stellarium 0.22.2 is removed from there github, leaving only 23.1 as the nest closest, I downloaded the latest version 24.1 and ASCOM is not an option under adding telescopes
What version of Stellarium would work, then? 23.4 has ascom but it is disabled because of incompatibility it says.
gave up at pip install -r requirements.txt with errors :((
INDIGO/Stellarium doesn't work on the Mac.
Fantastic stuff Kai !
Seestar is connected to Stellarium and Bruno, I can open its with Bruno but when I open lense, cercle don't move on stellarium... Same if I do CTRL+0 to slew telescope to..
I am curious if this app will allow for autofocusing to be built into an imaging session at 20 minute intervals to compensate for temperature changes to the hardware?
Yes, easily. Just stop stacking every n minutes, autofocus, and then continue stacking. Repeat.
@@kai_seestar Excellent. This keeps on getting better! Appreciate your time and efforts to make this an even better hobby.
Kai! I get the feeling that all of thios(so far!) is still in development stage!? As a beginner in astro, with Seestar; a lot of what is on here, seems to be aimed at people who know quite a bit about software, and its development! Am I correct? Maybe I and others, should check in with you, when THIS is ready for general use?Thanks for all your efforts!
As noted in my Facebook group and discord channel, I suggest to let us and the testers to go through the teething process before general use. Yes this framework can do many advanced things, but one goal I have is also to let typical Seestar users to do mosaics and night scheduling with just a few clicks. I may tape a video to demo that. The teething part is to arrive at an easy install for everyone.
No offense, but, could you be any less clear?
Great job Kai, I am using MAC, how do I connect using INDI ?
I was going to write an adapter for indi but other priorities took over.
LOL
Do you have any timed shutdown script?
@@stiop52 already part of seestar_alp list of features
It works. :) But in the last part, the mosaic shows the error of KeyError: ‘is_use_autofocus’. I have post an issue in github, thx
@@AndyKong51 will be fixed soon.
@@AndyKong51 bug was introduced as part of a new Simple web based GUi added to codebase. You can try that interface in the mean time