Connecting Your Main Computer to a Telescope via Remote Connection
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- In this video, I will show you how I am able to control my telescopes outside with WiFi from my main computer inside my office via a remote connection.
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I'm about to be 67 and this hobby is so rewarding, lots of battles to fight but it keeps you learning all along.
Hi Tim,
Yep, totally agree ... so rewarding and challenging at the same time
I am also 67 next month and I have been interested in astronomy since I was maybe 12 years old. I only took up astrophotography about 10 years ago, its been quite a journey and very frustrating at times but I can now produce pictures better than those I used to see from professional telescopes back in the 60s.
I'm about to be 77!...wish I had started this a couple decades earlier...endlessly fun and facinating.
Hi, Don,
"Fascinating" is an understatement. It's so amazing what we can see from our own backyards. Imagine if Kepler, Galileo, Newton, etc., had the same equipment that we have what else they would have discovered.
Thank you for watching my video
I’m turning 47 this year and got my scope about a year ago. Finally decided to get a camera and an equatorial. So so much to learn but I’m loving the challenge.
Hi Larry,
Well, I hope my videos are helping you make proper choices and aid you in that steep learning curve with all the different software packages.
Have fun with the nighttime skies.
I applaud your presentation of network options. So many folks get locked into using RDP over WiFi and don't consider other configurations even when that approach doesn't work reliably.
Thank you "Linux Astro"
I am slowly learning how to use Linux and am experimenting with Ubuntu. It is my belief that one can remote from Linux into a Windows box using Chrome Desktop, but I haven't tried that yet
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy There are a great many ways to do remote work with Linux. Many more than in Windows. My preference to control a Windows machine is to use VNC. TightVNC seems to work really well with Windows, although I prefer Remina, a stock Ubuntu utility as the Linux client. Really, though, if you use INDI drivers instead of ASCOM, you don't even need to do remote. Run the drivers only on the remote and the imaging and control software in the house.
Just an excellent primer for a novice, such as myself, to learn from.
Thank you, Dennis. I hope it helps. I have three different rigs in which I can connect to remotely.
Thanks Pat! I've been struggling with cables for years and they work but invariably they do get tangeled. Actually did my first astrophoto with a Kodak BOX camera when I was around 10 ...that will surely give my age away. From one Georgian to another...Thanks for the doing another great video.
Hi Jerry,
Kodak Box Camera? Okay, yep, you are an old fart like me! Ha. I remember my first astrophoto ... it was when I was at Murray State University in my astrophysics class, we took a picture of Jupiter using an SLR camera and Kodak Ektachrome film for color slides. That was in 1974. Soooo much easier today.
Great info Pat! I like your idea of using a Wi-Fi extender on the outside of your house. I need to do that as well.
Hi Joe,
That would help connect to your Bear Claw observatory so you wouldn't have to go outside to duke it out with the bears and wolves. Ha. Thanks for watching. Is your winter nearly over yet?
Thanks Pat! Great topic. I’m using the ASI Air plus on “station mode” which I run off my iPad along with a wifi extender, that allows me to be inside the house after polar alignment to run the sequence(s).
Sometimes a hardwire solution would be better if you can leave your gear setup on a pier or observatory and fire up NINA at your desk.
I thought about ASI Air but my eye vision is not that good working on tablets and even worse on phones. I prefrer these big monitors and my comfy chair ... Ha! Thank you for viewing my video
Can you give details about accessories used ?
Wasp on the Guidescope making a nest @07:47??!!! Great info Pat. I've setup a MiniPC that I won via a raffle best 20 bucks I've spent. It sits under my Tri-Pier and makes things so much easier. Great image of M101 with a full moon.
Thank you, Jason.
Yes, I need to keep the optical train closed when I remove my camera so that the wasps don't fly inside and try to build a nest. Just 5 years ago, I never thoughyt it will possible to connect to my telescope this way. Wow.
Hi Pat. Wealth of information here. Thanks. I will be automating soon. Looking at the asi air and am5 mount, with the red cat 51.
Hi Perry,
That's a great rig you got there. I hear a lot of wondergul things about the Red cat and the AM5. I wish you great success and clear skies
Thanks!
Thank you for that "Super Thanks". I hope that video helped you out (as in your prious question about setting up a remote computer.
Thanks Pat
Good one.
Do you have any advice?
Using my smartphone hotspot, I use remote desktop to connect my indoor PC with the mini PC on the heq6-r pro. Drops all the time! 🤯
Not the signal nor any password issues. Sometimes works, but sometimes not.
Any ideas?
Doug
Hi Doug,
From what I know about phones, using them as a hot spot is not what they are designed to do. Using it as a hot spot like that can burn out the phone. You should just get a WiFi transmitter and go that route
Thank you.
Cheers
Thanks
I can't seem to get nina. Your videos are good I get some of them others I have to really think about. Like plate solving. That and Nina I need to spend more time studying. You must live in a very safe neighborhood. I guarantee you if I left my scope and tripod outside it would be gone the next morning. Columbus Ohio is not safe anymore.
Hi Geof,
Sorry about the unsafe neighborhood, hmmm, not good.
Concerning NINA, do you mean you are not able to comprehend how to use it or is it something else? Maybe I can help. Are you using any other acquisition software?
Good video Pat... You should come up to NEAF , place for us to drool ....
Hi Steve,
I would love to attend the NEAF exhibition but I am not one who likes to travel. However, I look forward every year in watching all the astronomy videos that are produced at NEAF. At least I "Drool" over those videos.
Thanks for watching my video.
I just subscribed to Heavenly Backyard Astronomy. I would like to begin this high learning curve journey by engaging with a remote computer interfaced with my in house tower or laptop. I plan to purchase the remote computer, interface it with the house computer and get used to using it as a source of operations at the scope/mount location. If I get the two computers talking to each other, do you have a suggestion for economical operations to view night sky constellations? Ie, I have no telescope or mount right now, but could see value in purchasing a camera of sorts that would be controllable by the remote computer and practice with that technology.
Hi Dennis,
There are now many "Mini Computers" and at very reasonable prices, available with the Windows operating system. Since my main computer is Windows, I simply use "Remote Desktop Connection" to connect to the mini computer on the telescope.
A good planetarium software package is Stellarium, and it's free. You can even control the telescope using it.
Is there a simpler approach? I just want to put a decent maybe 8-10" stargazing telescope on my roof, bolt it down and connect wi-fi or cat 7 cable to my office computer 15 feet away, control it with my computer, watch it on 1 of my monitors. I'd run 120V or USB-C to it to avoid chaging batteries in the Wisconsin winter.
Hi Jeff,
Hmmm, I wonder if you would get too much vibration from the roof when different household devices activate, such as blowers from HVAC, washing machines, dryers, ect. Also, how would you cover the scope when not in use?
Running a CAT 7 cable would provide a clean signal but most everything today can use WiFi for connection. Either one would work. All you would need is a mini-computer at the rig and just remote into it.
Anyway, good luck and clear skies
What do you mean “I connect mount”? You are connected to mini computer. Right? Mini computer is connected to everything in your rig.
Do you think autofocuser is just an accessory? It is THEaccessory. More important than mount.
Mount balance could be little bit heavier on counterweight and telescope tail sides. It gives better guiding.
Do you think PoleMaster is better than software alignment through your scope? It is not, since scope has better magnification.
Hi Ana,
Yes, I connect to the mini-computer via WiFi. The mount is connected to the mini. Some mounts have a built in WiFi system and you can connect directly to the mount that way, but my mount(s) don't have this feature.
I found out that (through trial and error) that I need to roughly PA before using the 3 point PA in NINA. So I use QHY's Pole Master to do that. But once I get that done, yes, using the main objective of the telescope does a much better alignment.
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Ok. You use two steps. I have been doing it before. But then changed routine. Polar alignment in SharpCap then mount alignment with at least 5 stars. That last step will tell you about accuracy of polar alignment. I am now switching to better mount, they have the same strategy. Polar alignment with SharpCap, mount alignment with 5-20 stars, then polar alignment again. Finally, sky modeling.
Thanks Pat. So you use both Pole Master and NINA 3pt polar align?
Hi Craig.
Yes. When I first set up the rig, It has to be closely polar align in order for the NINA to do a 3 point Polar Alignment.
What Wifi booster connector did you use, Pat?
I have a Netgear WiFi extender that gives me a strong signal out in the backyard.
Does your mini PC and office PC both use WIndows 10 Professional or Windows Home or a mix.?? thank you
Hi Roy,
Thank you for watching my video.
Both computers are Windows 10 PRO.
If you cannot connect via Windows Remote Desktop, you can cannect using Chrome Remote Desktop. You can also connect using the TeamViewr, or AnyDesk apps. I find Windows Remote desktop the cleanest connection.