Please do more videos. I have the Benro and have had great success with it doing wide angle landscape astrophotography. I was to try deep sky. I will experiment but it don’t have a clear understanding of all that you are doing. Can you do a video series as if you are teaching someone who has no experience in deep sky imaging?
That's true! I didn't touch on focusing, this can be completed at any stage before the actual imaging - as long as it's roughly in focus, the plate solving will work perfectly.
This is great, will some of these features like plate solving and center ing target every x frames this ever be doable from only the mobile app? Bento should still update this app extensively. The hardware is great, the software not so much. I can dream right😂. I love this but it would still require me to take a laptop in the field, which is not very handy when you’re on top of a mountain or something.
Hi Alexander, terrific video tutorial, you make it sound so easy to follow step by step. I am a Sony user so I downloaded the ASCOM plugin for Sony and it connects fine with/NINA. I am able to connect the camera and Benro Polaris just like you showed, I also entered the lens in both the ASCOM driver details and NINA options tab. My lens (Sigma 100-400) however isn't recognized in Focuser or Telescope (Polaris is recognized as the Mount) in order to enable NINA's autofocus and/or Hocus Focus plugin. My issue remains the lens. andy tips how to make it work?
@@moshesalama Thanks Moshe! My understanding is that with NINA, it is only possible to use “native” autofocus with Canon cameras - there’s been a plugin developed which allows this. The rest of us have to stick to either manual focusing (my pick), or attaching some sort of ASCOM-compliant electronic focuser to the lens.
Can it also be controlled from a Windows tablet?Alpaca would work for a Pentax Aspc? K3 or K3 III, which driver should I choose? When you choose the camera at minute 2.36, what should I put for my Pentax? Thanks for the video
Absolutely - as long as the tablet runs the full-fledged version of windows (not windows ARM), you’ll be ready to roll I’m actually not sure RE: the Pentax, although if you flick a message into the NINA discord support, I’m sure you’ll have someone chime in there
Sorry if that has already been mentioned and I missed it: You do need a laptop, this will not work with just a phone as NINA is not (yet) running on Android, correct? I love this project but can't make use of it since the whole point of getting the Benro Polaris for me was to be ultraportable. That being said, I seem to remember it was mentioned other control SW integration is also planned in the future, so I'm wondering what the status is here?
unfortunately NINA is windows-only - although, if Benro continue to develop their mobile software, we may see some of these features come to the phone app for the Polaris!
Wow. I'm gonna try this. Stunning!
Awesome...you need to do more videos of this...Since Benro do nothing
Amazing video. Clear explanation. Keep them coming
Thanks! I definitely will.
Awesome video and excellent clarification 😀
Thanks a lot!
Nice video and great explanation. Thanks. Keep them coming.
Thanks - I will!
Just what we need - clear easy explanation - and N.I.N.A. lol - thank you!
I'm pumped - thanks!
Please do more videos. I have the Benro and have had great success with it doing wide angle landscape astrophotography. I was to try deep sky. I will experiment but it don’t have a clear understanding of all that you are doing. Can you do a video series as if you are teaching someone who has no experience in deep sky imaging?
@@boycefitzgerald absolutely - I’d love to create a series like this!
Fantastic video, simple steps, the only thing I think you missed was how you go about with focusing.
That's true! I didn't touch on focusing, this can be completed at any stage before the actual imaging - as long as it's roughly in focus, the plate solving will work perfectly.
This is great, will some of these features like plate solving and center ing target every x frames this ever be doable from only the mobile app? Bento should still update this app extensively. The hardware is great, the software not so much. I can dream right😂. I love this but it would still require me to take a laptop in the field, which is not very handy when you’re on top of a mountain or something.
@@koenpijpersphotography Hopefully one day! For now, this is a totally community-led project
@@outsideourspherebtw is it also possible to program panoramas instead of single (stacked) images?
@ you absolutely can, I can piece together a video covering this in NINA - the mosaic tool in the framing assistant is great!
Hi, in the imaging tab I can’t see any image preview. I am using a Sony A7 IV with a 200-600. Not sure what else I need to adjust.
Hi Alexander, terrific video tutorial, you make it sound so easy to follow step by step. I am a Sony user so I downloaded the ASCOM plugin for Sony and it connects fine with/NINA. I am able to connect the camera and Benro Polaris just like you showed, I also entered the lens in both the ASCOM driver details and NINA options tab. My lens (Sigma 100-400) however isn't recognized in Focuser or Telescope (Polaris is recognized as the Mount) in order to enable NINA's autofocus and/or Hocus Focus plugin. My issue remains the lens. andy tips how to make it work?
@@moshesalama Thanks Moshe! My understanding is that with NINA, it is only possible to use “native” autofocus with Canon cameras - there’s been a plugin developed which allows this. The rest of us have to stick to either manual focusing (my pick), or attaching some sort of ASCOM-compliant electronic focuser to the lens.
Can it also be controlled from a Windows tablet?Alpaca would work for a Pentax Aspc? K3 or K3 III, which driver should I choose? When you choose the camera at minute 2.36, what should I put for my Pentax? Thanks for the video
Absolutely - as long as the tablet runs the full-fledged version of windows (not windows ARM), you’ll be ready to roll
I’m actually not sure RE: the Pentax, although if you flick a message into the NINA discord support, I’m sure you’ll have someone chime in there
@@outsideoursphere hi! too much thanks
Had did you make a shortcut to start the Alpaca driver? I have to use the command prompt which is tedious.
@@boycefitzgerald under “software installation”, see step 4 (github.com/ogecko/alpaca-benro-polaris/blob/main/docs/installation.md)
@@outsideoursphere - thank you. I’m an older guy and this is stretching my tech skills. I’ll at it and figure it out. Thanks.
Totally nobody NINA question here: How do you connect the camera? Via cable to the laptop? To the Polaris as usual or???
@@andywash I connect the camera directly to the laptop with a USB cable - ideally one that’s a bit longer than the cable supplied with the Polaris!
Sorry if that has already been mentioned and I missed it: You do need a laptop, this will not work with just a phone as NINA is not (yet) running on Android, correct? I love this project but can't make use of it since the whole point of getting the Benro Polaris for me was to be ultraportable. That being said, I seem to remember it was mentioned other control SW integration is also planned in the future, so I'm wondering what the status is here?
unfortunately NINA is windows-only - although, if Benro continue to develop their mobile software, we may see some of these features come to the phone app for the Polaris!
How Nikon ccan be connected to Nina?use a cable or WiFi?
NINA has drivers for Nikon cameras built in, I just connect the camera via USB to the laptop!