Best video ever. I am so new to all of this and everything is so confusing. Every move seems to require a masters degree of information. This is the first video that I have found that really starts with the basics and guides you step-by-step, even telling you where you are clicking which is one of my big pet peeves. People all the time say “go here and go there”, but they do it so fast you don’t see where they’re going. Thanks heaps. I still would like a more remedial course in this, but this is by far the best out there. Big thanks.
Excellent tutorial...the best I've seen so far on how to use this...people need to understand the 2 main benefits of this system, 1.) By making the hobby easier, it will open it up to more people, which will create more consumers, lower prices and create more innovations, like this product, and 2.) This will allow you to plan and execute more subs for various targets, over the course of those rare clear nights, allowing you to maximize your photography time...you can process at any time...clear nights are valuable.
Hi Peter, I saw some comments in regard to power availability and consumption of ASIPRO and plus. I would advise ASI users to review the specs of the ASIPRO or PLUS to ensure that you are within the unit's capability to deliver the power that's required to run your rig. These are the bench test that I had done when I bought the EQ6R P last year. As you can see I have to run the mount with independent power supply and I run my camera cooler at -10. I would like to add that my ASIAIR has worked flawless from day one. It just a great piece of equipment. Measured Amp draw EQ6R-Pro Park 0.37 Slew 2.42 Guide 0.55
Dude this took me from 0 to 100 on getting the ASIAIR Plus set up and running out of the box. Can't thank you enough!!! (ESPECIALLY for covering the stuff that didn't go perfect at setup, hugely important)
Great video. Been doing this hobby for 11 months and the ASIAIR Pro has made things so much better. This and a few other things have saved me so much time where I used to struggle all night. My favorite astrophotography life hacks: 1. A poured cement back yard pier. It's cheap, rock solid and always perfectly level. I attach mount head to pier, put Polaris where it belongs on the mounts polar bullseye and I'm done with mounting & PA in 10 minutes. I never use the ASIAIR PA anymore, it was such a waste of time. 2. Pair the ASI120 mini and mini 30mm guidescope, then never unpair it. I just move the pairing to whichever telescope I'm using and never have to focus guidescope again. 3. EAF. Wish I'd have gotten this autofocuser at the beginning. It does pretty much all of the focus work. No more Bathinov nightmares and re-focusing mid-session. Clear skies!
Peter, thanks so much for the tutorial. I'm brand new to astrophotography, and I just got a new scope and the asiair along with a zwo camera. This made it quite easy to set everything up. Now just waiting for a clear night. Haven't seen one of those in Columbus, Ohio for about 3 weeks now and no clear sky forecast in sight. Again, thanks for the great video. I've been looking through many of your videos and they are extremely helpful.
Received my ASI Air Plus today. As you said, this device "revolutionizes astrophotography." So true! Even having a GTI mount with a WiFi app, the process was tedious beyond description! Thank you for this tutorial!
Many thanks Peter. You’ve saved me countless hours crawling around in the app just to get started. Now if I can only figure out why I can connect the app to my iPad, but not my iPad Pro!
Hi Peter, great video, and +1 on Martin’s suggestion. I was going to say the same thing last night but I had a technical glitch. Multi star guiding is the best thing to happen to autoguiding since the original ASIAIR, and it’s just about the best thing that’s happened to the ASIAIR Pro. Martin pointed out the only difference - at the point where you’re currently touching a star, just push the guide button - and I’ll bet your guiding will improve by about 30% right away. I was happy to get close to 1 arc second of error before, and thrilled to get anything below that, but since multistar guiding I’m disappointed by anything above the .7 range.
This video is a year old, for anybody watching it and reading the comments I would suggest you look at the Bluetti batteries or any other company that uses LifePO batteries. You’ll have three times the life usage. Jackery it’s just releasing a Lifepo in one of their larger batteries. I’m sure in time they will offer them in the smaller batteries. You’re talking 3500 discharge versus 800 to 1000 with Jackery’s lithium Ion. With all that said, terrific review.
A tip: Don’t tap the screen in the guiding screen but click the looping button and then the target button as soon as you have stars in focus. You will then get multi-star guiding. Tapping the screen and selecting a star bypasses that and use 1-star guiding
Great video Peter, but I would add that it is not a good idea to be running your camera's cooler at 100%. That will just make your camera wear out a lot quicker. I better idea is to find a temperature that only makes the cooler work at a max of 60% and use that.
I’m 2 years late but nevertheless it’s a great video and super easy to understand, thank you for that.The power cable is a pet peeve of mines about zwo! They sell smart pieces of equipment with no power cords upon purchase of the product. How stingy can they be! I mean obviously stingy…
Really nice run down and good on you for keeping it real, Peter. I don't currently Plate Solve after Polar Alignment, but think I might start as this could cut down (should!) on my re-centering after Go-To on my targets. Thanks!
When framing you can use the Annotate feature in Tools...after you see the target annotated you can touch and hold the screen to center or adjust your framing with the goto button that is on the screen. Enjoy!
Thanks for this video. I have a celestron dgem dx mount and i just bought a ts-optics 203/800 photo. I need this asiair plus! That looks so much easier…Thx!
The DSLR cable is actually very useful because it means you don't need a stand alone shutter release dohicky. I use the Star Adventurer 2i with that cable and make sequences in the companion app that goes with it, like 30/60/120s exposures with X frames. But each to his own of course, the DSLR cable does serve a good purpose for beginners.
This video I found to be a great help. But with mine it was still a B***** to get the on line code. Some how it all came together just as I was gonna connect to Ethernet at the same time. Thank you for your editorials.
Another tutorial video shows the Plus has a video mode, which is handy for attaining focus as you're not taking multiple pictures. Learning curve on this thing is pretty steep, I think.
Hi Peter. help request please. could you please create a video for the mosiac feature of the asiair plus ? some of the available videos do not provide the start to finish steps...the final image. thank you.
Great video, thanks! Just got my ASIAIR Plus and took it out last night. It took me awhile to focus (Zero or home position pointing to Polaris) and eventually found one star (fortunately I new the setting & focus manually). Any ideas on finding stars easily (I have an iOptron iEQ30 Pro Mount)? Then I went to PA. It plate solved, rotated 60 degrees, but from then on, all attempts to plate solve failed. It was saying that it was detecting approximately 100 stars. Also, I have a 500mm fl (90mm aperture) scope with a 0.8 FF/FR. Thanks again!
Great video, learned a great deal. For those of us that have a Star Tracker but have all the other components as in this video. What videos do you suggest? If I want to shoot Orion, I guess using the Star Tracker Adventurer, I would have to manually adjust the Telescope? Any help appreciated.
I upgrade to ASIAIR Plus and the EAF, the new (which I bought for a second Telescope train), and the existing EAF is not being seeing by the app!! I tried all, change cables, use the ASIAIR Pro, interchange EAF, still the app do not recognize it. I can do manual focusing using manual controller and focusing mask, but is a bummer, the bug hit me. USING ASIAIR Pro was a dream, know I have just nightmares, back to manual....I summit bug report but I cannot either got to their bug site!
My Star Adventurer is connected to my guide camera via the ST cable. The guide is connected to the ASIAIR but when I try to polar align it says no mount. I have it set to on camera and activated with the green button. Any suggestions welcomed!
Great video as always Peter! Question: I own a Skywatcher EQ6-mount which I run through a laptop. Can you still do a PEC routine (to get a tracking curve) with the ASI AIR+?
Hello Peter. Thanks for the great video. I've been imaging without autoguiding for the last year and I'm ready to start doing it. I use an Orion ED80T CF on a Celestron AVX and a Canon t8i. Would you recommend the ASIAIR plus as a good way to get started with autoguiding? I'll probably stick with the DSLR for a little while and eventually upgrade to an astro cam. I like the idea of an integrated system. Thanks for your advice.
Question: Can Autorun also live stack? The first, and only time I used it, I was disappointed that my photo's did not live stack. If live stacking and autorun are compatible how do I set that up?
Thank you for the tutorial. I'm using V2.2.1 10.75 version of the app and so there are changes but the basic work flow is still relevant. I notice in your video your when you are checking the camera settings the focal length is 250mm yet when you were showing the the PA procedure and the very last step is to move the mount to a random section of the sky to perform a plate solve and mount sync. The equipment is a SCT Edge by appearances. The reason I bring this up is I have been trying to get my ASIAir Plus 256 to perform plate solve and GO TO with my C8 SCT with AVX mount and an ASI585MC planetary camera. Have you gotten ASIAir to plate solve and GO TO consistently with that SCT? Do you use a focal reducer?. I've figured out that with the long focal length of 2032mm and the ASI585MC I can't get past the first step in the PA procedure, taking the first image and then plate solving. I've verified the focus is good. I then installed the 6.3 focal reducers. The focal length should be reduced to 1280mm. This change seems to get me through the PA procedure to where I think I'm ready to GO TO. Here is where I noticed a step you do that I don't do. You slew away from the NCP area to some random point and from the video it appears you slew to the northeast then take a photo, plate solve then Sync the mount. I don't do that last step. I'll go to a target like a star or a galaxy just to test out the accuracy of the GO TO. When you do this it still plate solves so ASIAir must know where it is but maybe the Sync to Mount is the keyThis is where it gets hit and miss. I might find a couple of targets in a row but then it will get loss. I never feel confident to move inside to move the scope around because I don't trust it. Last night after a couple of test targets seemed to locate and center I moved to Jupiter to set up for taking some videos. I bought the ASIAir so I could GO TO targets and get them centered. For planets the SCT in native focal length would be ideal but the ASIAIr will not plate solve at that 2032 focal length. Last night I had to use the 6.3 focal reducer and when choosing Jupiter it got close but failed to center because of plate solving problems. It was very close in the finder but in Video mode even at 1080p it couldn't see it. Eventually after a lot of moving the mount and using the finder scope I got it centered. I was then able to add the 2x Barlow and focus. I could've down that without the ASIAir. I"m also finding the mount direction controls on V2.2.1 10-74 App don't work well with the AVX mount. You hold your finger down and when released the mount keeps slewing for 5 or more seconds. Sometimes My conclusion is ASIAir Plus with V2.2.1 10.74 App seems to be only suitable with short focal length OTA, maybe under 1000m or 700mm in conjunction with a larger sensor camera vs the planetary cameras. All the youTube ASIAir demonstration videos seem to use short focal length telescopes with cooled ZWO cameras with the exception of the Astroblender channel he's got some but he's using a F/2 Hyperstar on his SCT. I'll keep plugging at it. Thanks.
Hello Peter et all who can answer, I bought the 5.5mm x 2.1 Sparking 12v dc cable. The tip end doesn't go in all the way, maybe a few mm short of going in all the way. Is this normal....The fit was tight too.
Hi Peter, I hope you had a chance to check the cable organizers I've sent you a while back. Please let me know if you'd like me to send you an updated version for this new Plus model. Thanks, Nick
If you are using this with a DSLR on a tracker like the iOptron Sky Guider Pro what do you do about the entry for main camera as it seems there is only a drop down menu with the ZWO cameras?
Hi, thanks for the great videos! One question if i may. If i am using a crop dslr, when i am inputing the focal length of the main telescope, should i put the actual mms of the telescope, or should i also include the crop factor? I mean multiply it with the crop factor of the camera? Thank you in advance!
PLease explain the wired ethernet connection. I'm using my ASI AIR pro through Wi-Fi but I'd like to use an emulator like BlueStacks and the ethernet cable. I have the cable installed and the correct ip address for the device and it says connected but Wi-Fi still takes precedence.
This is an excellent video Peter! I have couple of questions. When you say your mount is connected to your AAP are you talking about the power? ie. Are you powering your mount thru the AAP? Or are you talking about the GO TO/Slewing signals from AAP? I guess my question is how are your operating your mount via AAP? Maybe you talk about this and I missed it. Thanks!
This is my current setup Canon R5 Canon RF 100-500 SA Tracker ASI 120MM Mini ZWO Mini Guide Scope PHD2 SharpCap NINA MSI Laptop... I've been debating on getting thr Asair plus, or just getting a cheaper laptop and keeping my current setup. I'm just looking for the best results. Could I get your opinion please, I've been watching you for along time and followed your guides since day one lol. Iv heard a lot of cons with the asair plus and only a hand full of good reviews with it, so I've been on the fence.. I'm looking at getting a go-to mount also.
I guess I'm old school and like using my laptop. I hate all the wires, but I really dislike being strapped to a cellphone. The app that works with this device is not available for PC's. Oh well.
Great instructional video! is there an Asiair Plus user manual that can be downloaded as a PDF? When I go to the ZWO site I only see one for the first generation and Pro models.
Hi. Thanks for the video. I must be dense. I take a picture or video with the asiair and the images are no where to be seen. They don't show up anywhere in the eMMC file folders and when I connect to my computer there are still no files. What do I have to do to get it to save a file. It even tells me it is saving mp4, so what am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Hello Peter, I have watched many of your videos and they are all tremendously well done and very helpful. I do have a question for you. I am trying to use my asi air plus to do some narrowband imaging. I have tried NGC 7000 (as well as a few other targets). I can't seem to get anything to show up in the preview. I have tried all of my narrowband filters and none of them show anything. I have had good success with my non narrowband filters on other objects so I feel I must be doing something wrong. I noticed you see the image without any additional workflow steps. I am using a ZWO 1600 cooled monochrome dedicated monochrome camera and the narrowband filters and wheel that came with the camera. I have tried exposures up to 300 seconds but still no luck. I saw in at least one of your videos you were using the same filters and saw an image with a 60 second exposure. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.
Thanks for the rundown! Question, after I start the shooting sequence, can I take my device away and reconnect it to my home wifi? Will that disrupt the shooting? Or do I need my device near the ASIAIR, connected to its wifi until shooting is done?
Since ZWO doesn't provide documentation no way to find out. I'm afraid you'll have to test that scenario yourself. The app on your phone/tablet is controlling the sequences etc so I would imagine if the connection was lost the ASIAir would stop whatever its doing.
Thanks so much for the tutorial, this is really helpful! One question though: how do you manage charging both your Asiair device and your mount? From the pictures, it seems like your battery is covering both devices, right?
Peter, I own an ASI Air Pro. I plan to get it modified to get an external antenna. According to your presentation, that you did not see that much of a difference between the two. Therefore, I will send of my ASI Air pro for a new antenna. I just cannot see shelving the Pro and get a Plus for the improvement of WIFI. What are your thoughts? Thanks and good presentation.
GREAT VIDEO! THANK YOU! This is exactly what I have been waiting/looking for. I have a Celestron 8" Evolution which is an ALT-AZ mount. Am I correct in assuming that I should be looking at a different setup entirely to use the ASI Air with? They do sell wedges for my current setup, but I can't imagine it would be "solid" enough for reliable operation?
Get a wedge and convert to equatorial and replicate true tracking and guiding. An Alt-Az mount is good for visual, not astrophotography. Like anything else, there are a range of wedges available, doing research and asking for performance opinions on astronomy websites will give you good feedback.
If anyone knows: 1. Does the ASiair Plus work with Mesu Mount e200mkII ? 2. If you are taking images for several hours - does the App need to stay OPEN all that time? What happens if your Tablet or Phone is turned off in the meantime - does the ASiair Plus still "run" on its own until it is finished with imaging?
When taking the images to PA, can that be done with a DSLR? The only astro cam I have is the ASI 120mm mini for autoguiding, but I still use a Canon T3i for my main imaging camera.
I don't have my ordered Plus yet, but due to the fact it has a dslr shutter port, I'm confident the Plus will recognize a dslr as long as it has the live view function.
I have asiair pro can I just polar align then hit go to on I pad then hit plate solve? Because I have been doing 2 star align on celestron and that’s a lot of work. I use a WiFi extender on my pro and it works good.
Yes you can. The Polar Align on AAP is great. Goto on AAP from app on iPad screen is great too. The scope slews to selected target, takes an image to check that target is centred then confirms. It’s like magic after SkyGuider Pro
So what do you recommend:ASIAIR PRO or PLUS? I mean from the functionality point of view? Is it worth paying a bit more for Plus just because it has a few improvements but not so huge overall?I want to buy one and I've seen many people that were very pleased with Asiair PRO and I don't know which one to pick.You've used both pro and plus.Any advice?Thanks
As of today, they show the Pro discontinued and only the Plus available for preorder. I'm not sure that will be available at the end of April as they suggest it might due to the world wide chip shortages. I've been shopping for a RPi 4 and can't get one. I did however see a used Pro on eBay for $600 with no extras. So, in hindsight, choose the one that's available.
hi peter, comparing to the pro, is the plus faster in calculating? e.g. star size calculation, plate solve? i use the asi6200mm pro, this is a lot of pixels (61mpix)?
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Hello Peter, I have a question about Live mode. As it been improved with the Plus version compared to the Pro version ? I have a Pro and unfortunately, there is no way to visualize the stacked image at the end of a live session. I have to take the image and use FITs viewer from AsiStudio to look at the final result. This implies taking the USB stick and plug it in a PC. I am doing EAA and it would be a big plus to have FITs viewer integrated with the Asi App. Looks like it is not planned by ZWO. Any trick you would have to view the result of a Live stack ? Many thanks in advance.
@@sebastienriviere695 maybe so but you do not see any more details than the first shot. I have to open the stacked version in FTIs viewer to see all the details as it uses a good AUTO histogram. In the Asi App, you do not see any details even when using manual histograms. Have you seen any details in the stacked FITs directly in the app ? Thanks again for your help.
No power cable dos not suprise me. 1500 in a 071 mc. No case, no power cable. I feel like this device must get very hot with all the power outputs, especially dew heaters. It's just a raspberry pi. Nevermind, the 12v in is just 12v thru. Nothing to do with the 5v section. But now I have typed too much to not comment.
Ah to be young in this day and age! You clearly missed out on the age of dial up, Baud refers to the speed of a dial up modem over phone lines. We now use Megabits per second or even Gigabits since we all use broadband internet connections. But back in the day, when internet access first started over phone lines your baud rate was how fast your phone dial up modem could connect. The fastest without going up to DSL was 56.6. It was truly pathetic. Any yes I realize this video is 2 years old, but I'm a computer geek, of course I'm gonna still explain, tho I bet it has in the comments below.
I'm sorry but until ZWO includes other focusers other than their own, I will not be buying the ASI Air Plus and will be selling my current ASI Air Pro. If your 100% into ZWO, then get the ASI Air Plus. It works well for all things ZWO. But for me, I have multiple auto focusers, and unless ZWO has updated their marketing philosophy to work with 3rd party focusers and filter wheels, they will not.
Nice video. If you check the auto box in the PA screen the screen will refresh after every exposure so this make the adjustment process easier. You made me chuckle when you said that you set the temperature to Fahrenheit because you are in North America. FYI only the US uses Fahrenheit in North America the rest of the continent uses Celsius. 😀
Superb review with excellent organization, presented in Setup and operational Tutorial sections. Everything one needs to get started, even without previous ASIAir experience. Just waiting for a clear sky so I can test mine! Thanks for your efforts on this, Peter!
Best video ever. I am so new to all of this and everything is so confusing. Every move seems to require a masters degree of information. This is the first video that I have found that really starts with the basics and guides you step-by-step, even telling you where you are clicking which is one of my big pet peeves. People all the time say “go here and go there”, but they do it so fast you don’t see where they’re going. Thanks heaps. I still would like a more remedial course in this, but this is by far the best out there. Big thanks.
Ha yeah it's a mind blowing hobby to start off with for sure , how u faring a year on?
Excellent tutorial...the best I've seen so far on how to use this...people need to understand the 2 main benefits of this system, 1.) By making the hobby easier, it will open it up to more people, which will create more consumers, lower prices and create more innovations, like this product, and 2.) This will allow you to plan and execute more subs for various targets, over the course of those rare clear nights, allowing you to maximize your photography time...you can process at any time...clear nights are valuable.
Me watching this still using a star tracker and dslr lol. Great video as always. I’ll be ready to hit the ground running when I upgrade. Cheers
I reckon you can still use this with dslr setup right?
@@priteshpardeshi5842 yes, of course, hence the dslr shutter port.
Hi Peter, I saw some comments in regard to power availability and consumption of ASIPRO and plus. I would advise ASI users to review the specs of the ASIPRO or PLUS to ensure that you are within the unit's capability to deliver the power that's required to run your rig. These are the bench test that I had done when I bought the EQ6R P last year. As you can see I have to run the mount with independent power supply and I run my camera cooler at -10. I would like to add that my ASIAIR has worked flawless from day one. It just a great piece of equipment.
Measured Amp draw
EQ6R-Pro
Park 0.37
Slew 2.42
Guide 0.55
ASIAIR Pro 0.45
ASI294MC-PRO
cooling -0C @ 37% 0.7
cooling -20C @ 100% 3.13
Combined ASIAIR/EQ6-R/ASI294MC-Pro/ASI120-mini @ -0 @ 39%
Parked 1.2
Slew 3.5
Guide 1.4
Combined ASIAIR/EQ6-R/ASI294MC-Pro/ASI120-mini @ -20 @ 100%
Parked 3.45
Slew 5.7
Guide 3.78
Dew Heater (camera) 0.95
Dew Heater (guide Scope) 0.78
Dude this took me from 0 to 100 on getting the ASIAIR Plus set up and running out of the box. Can't thank you enough!!! (ESPECIALLY for covering the stuff that didn't go perfect at setup, hugely important)
It's a golden age for amateur astrophotography!
Plate solving alone makes it worth it. My hand controller has been hurled off the roof!
Great video. Been doing this hobby for 11 months and the ASIAIR Pro has made things so much better. This and a few other things have saved me so much time where I used to struggle all night. My favorite astrophotography life hacks: 1. A poured cement back yard pier. It's cheap, rock solid and always perfectly level. I attach mount head to pier, put Polaris where it belongs on the mounts polar bullseye and I'm done with mounting & PA in 10 minutes. I never use the ASIAIR PA anymore, it was such a waste of time. 2. Pair the ASI120 mini and mini 30mm guidescope, then never unpair it. I just move the pairing to whichever telescope I'm using and never have to focus guidescope again. 3. EAF. Wish I'd have gotten this autofocuser at the beginning. It does pretty much all of the focus work. No more Bathinov nightmares and re-focusing mid-session. Clear skies!
Peter, thanks so much for the tutorial. I'm brand new to astrophotography, and I just got a new scope and the asiair along with a zwo camera. This made it quite easy to set everything up. Now just waiting for a clear night. Haven't seen one of those in Columbus, Ohio for about 3 weeks now and no clear sky forecast in sight. Again, thanks for the great video. I've been looking through many of your videos and they are extremely helpful.
Received my ASI Air Plus today. As you said, this device "revolutionizes astrophotography." So true! Even having a GTI mount with a WiFi app, the process was tedious beyond description! Thank you for this tutorial!
Thanks for the part about the activation. I couldn’t figure that out at first. Your video solved it. Cheers!
Many thanks Peter. You’ve saved me countless hours crawling around in the app just to get started. Now if I can only figure out why I can connect the app to my iPad, but not my iPad Pro!
This is exactly what someone like m, who is just about to dive into this hobby, needed. Thanks
Just broke-in my new AM5 and ASiair Plus and guidescope last night, this video was tremendously helpful! Thanks!
Just upgraded to Asi plus. As always, a great Video and well explained. Thank you.
Hi Peter, great video, and +1 on Martin’s suggestion. I was going to say the same thing last night but I had a technical glitch. Multi star guiding is the best thing to happen to autoguiding since the original ASIAIR, and it’s just about the best thing that’s happened to the ASIAIR Pro. Martin pointed out the only difference - at the point where you’re currently touching a star, just push the guide button - and I’ll bet your guiding will improve by about 30% right away. I was happy to get close to 1 arc second of error before, and thrilled to get anything below that, but since multistar guiding I’m disappointed by anything above the .7 range.
This video is a year old, for anybody watching it and reading the comments I would suggest you look at the Bluetti batteries or any other company that uses LifePO batteries. You’ll have three times the life usage.
Jackery it’s just releasing a Lifepo in one of their larger batteries. I’m sure in time they will offer them in the smaller batteries. You’re talking 3500 discharge versus 800 to 1000 with Jackery’s lithium Ion.
With all that said, terrific review.
Very nice tutorial Peter. This will definitely help me get started with my new rig. Clear skies!
A tip: Don’t tap the screen in the guiding screen but click the looping button and then the target button as soon as you have stars in focus. You will then get multi-star guiding.
Tapping the screen and selecting a star bypasses that and use 1-star guiding
Agreed!
Came to add this feedback and saw you already did it. Great tip!
As others have said, extremely helpful video and helpful comments--thanks.
Excellent video tutorial Peter 👌
Excellent info and very straightforward. Thx Peter
Outstanding video,..very clear and helpful
Excellent detailed tutorial. I wanted to see how this unit worked before making a purchase and wow it looks great!
Great video Peter, but I would add that it is not a good idea to be running your camera's cooler at 100%. That will just make your camera wear out a lot quicker. I better idea is to find a temperature that only makes the cooler work at a max of 60% and use that.
Great tutorial !!!!
I’m 2 years late but nevertheless it’s a great video and super easy to understand, thank you for that.The power cable is a pet peeve of mines about zwo! They sell smart pieces of equipment with no power cords upon purchase of the product. How stingy can they be! I mean obviously stingy…
In polar align, tick the ‘Auto’ box then there is no delay waiting for image to download-it works like when focusing-continuous.
Just what i was looking for.
Thanks Peter - another very useful video!
Really nice run down and good on you for keeping it real, Peter. I don't currently Plate Solve after Polar Alignment, but think I might start as this could cut down (should!) on my re-centering after Go-To on my targets. Thanks!
When framing you can use the Annotate feature in Tools...after you see the target annotated you can touch and hold the screen to center or adjust your framing with the goto button that is on the screen. Enjoy!
Thanks for this video. I have a celestron dgem dx mount and i just bought a ts-optics 203/800 photo. I need this asiair plus!
That looks so much easier…Thx!
Awesome. I use a mini with a Hq5 And a dob.
great video, its a shame Celestron and ASIair dont give as much installation information as you did
Thank you, Peter 🙏🏼
The DSLR cable is actually very useful because it means you don't need a stand alone shutter release dohicky. I use the Star Adventurer 2i with that cable and make sequences in the companion app that goes with it, like 30/60/120s exposures with X frames. But each to his own of course, the DSLR cable does serve a good purpose for beginners.
This video I found to be a great help. But with mine it was still a B***** to get the on line code.
Some how it all came together just as I was gonna connect to Ethernet at the same time.
Thank you for your editorials.
Thanks, excellent presentation .
Another tutorial video shows the Plus has a video mode, which is handy for attaining focus as you're not taking multiple pictures. Learning curve on this thing is pretty steep, I think.
Very well done, thank you!
What is the word before “mask?” In focusing you use a word starting with a b but I can’t tell what you are saying. Thanks. Great video.
Nice review! Mine should be here soon!
Hi Peter.
help request please.
could you please create a video for the mosiac feature of the asiair plus ?
some of the available videos do not provide the start to finish steps...the final image.
thank you.
Great video, thanks! Just got my ASIAIR Plus and took it out last night. It took me awhile to focus (Zero or home position pointing to Polaris) and eventually found one star (fortunately I new the setting & focus manually). Any ideas on finding stars easily (I have an iOptron iEQ30 Pro Mount)? Then I went to PA. It plate solved, rotated 60 degrees, but from then on, all attempts to plate solve failed. It was saying that it was detecting approximately 100 stars. Also, I have a 500mm fl (90mm aperture) scope with a 0.8 FF/FR. Thanks again!
Great video, learned a great deal. For those of us that have a Star Tracker but have all the other components as in this video. What videos do you suggest? If I want to shoot Orion, I guess using the Star Tracker Adventurer, I would have to manually adjust the Telescope? Any help appreciated.
Really great video!
Does it support Nikon Z7 yet, Last model didn’t
I have a Celestron AVX mount, would the ASIAir connect to it via WIFI?
I upgrade to ASIAIR Plus and the EAF, the new (which I bought for a second Telescope train), and the existing EAF is not being seeing by the app!! I tried all, change cables, use the ASIAIR Pro, interchange EAF, still the app do not recognize it. I can do manual focusing using manual controller and focusing mask, but is a bummer, the bug hit me.
USING ASIAIR Pro was a dream, know I have just nightmares, back to manual....I summit bug report but I cannot either got to their bug site!
My Star Adventurer is connected to my guide camera via the ST cable. The guide is connected to the ASIAIR but when I try to polar align it says no mount. I have it set to on camera and activated with the green button. Any suggestions welcomed!
Great video as always Peter! Question: I own a Skywatcher EQ6-mount which I run through a laptop. Can you still do a PEC routine (to get a tracking curve) with the ASI AIR+?
Hello Peter. Thanks for the great video. I've been imaging without autoguiding for the last year and I'm ready to start doing it. I use an Orion ED80T CF on a Celestron AVX and a Canon t8i. Would you recommend the ASIAIR plus as a good way to get started with autoguiding? I'll probably stick with the DSLR for a little while and eventually upgrade to an astro cam. I like the idea of an integrated system. Thanks for your advice.
Question: Can Autorun also live stack? The first, and only time I used it, I was disappointed that my photo's did not live stack. If live stacking and autorun are compatible how do I set that up?
does it work with the Celestron mounts and telescopes, and with the Canon 5D Mk4 DSLR camera?
great!!!!
Thank you for the tutorial. I'm using V2.2.1 10.75 version of the app and so there are changes but the basic work flow is still relevant. I notice in your video your when you are checking the camera settings the focal length is 250mm yet when you were showing the the PA procedure and the very last step is to move the mount to a random section of the sky to perform a plate solve and mount sync. The equipment is a SCT Edge by appearances. The reason I bring this up is I have been trying to get my ASIAir Plus 256 to perform plate solve and GO TO with my C8 SCT with AVX mount and an ASI585MC planetary camera. Have you gotten ASIAir to plate solve and GO TO consistently with that SCT? Do you use a focal reducer?. I've figured out that with the long focal length of 2032mm and the ASI585MC I can't get past the first step in the PA procedure, taking the first image and then plate solving. I've verified the focus is good. I then installed the 6.3 focal reducers. The focal length should be reduced to 1280mm. This change seems to get me through the PA procedure to where I think I'm ready to GO TO. Here is where I noticed a step you do that I don't do. You slew away from the NCP area to some random point and from the video it appears you slew to the northeast then take a photo, plate solve then Sync the mount. I don't do that last step. I'll go to a target like a star or a galaxy just to test out the accuracy of the GO TO. When you do this it still plate solves so ASIAir must know where it is but maybe the Sync to Mount is the keyThis is where it gets hit and miss. I might find a couple of targets in a row but then it will get loss. I never feel confident to move inside to move the scope around because I don't trust it. Last night after a couple of test targets seemed to locate and center I moved to Jupiter to set up for taking some videos. I bought the ASIAir so I could GO TO targets and get them centered. For planets the SCT in native focal length would be ideal but the ASIAIr will not plate solve at that 2032 focal length. Last night I had to use the 6.3 focal reducer and when choosing Jupiter it got close but failed to center because of plate solving problems. It was very close in the finder but in Video mode even at 1080p it couldn't see it. Eventually after a lot of moving the mount and using the finder scope I got it centered. I was then able to add the 2x Barlow and focus. I could've down that without the ASIAir.
I"m also finding the mount direction controls on V2.2.1 10-74 App don't work well with the AVX mount. You hold your finger down and when released the mount keeps slewing for 5 or more seconds. Sometimes
My conclusion is ASIAir Plus with V2.2.1 10.74 App seems to be only suitable with short focal length OTA, maybe under 1000m or 700mm in conjunction with a larger sensor camera vs the planetary cameras. All the youTube ASIAir demonstration videos seem to use short focal length telescopes with cooled ZWO cameras with the exception of the Astroblender channel he's got some but he's using a F/2 Hyperstar on his SCT.
I'll keep plugging at it. Thanks.
Hello Peter et all who can answer, I bought the 5.5mm x 2.1 Sparking 12v dc cable. The tip end doesn't go in all the way, maybe a few mm short of going in all the way. Is this normal....The fit was tight too.
Hi Peter, I hope you had a chance to check the cable organizers I've sent you a while back. Please let me know if you'd like me to send you an updated version for this new Plus model. Thanks, Nick
If you are using this with a DSLR on a tracker like the iOptron Sky Guider Pro what do you do about the entry for main camera as it seems there is only a drop down menu with the ZWO cameras?
Do I need to have WiFi for ASIAir Pro or The Plus.
Hi, thanks for the great videos! One question if i may. If i am using a crop dslr, when i am inputing the focal length of the main telescope, should i put the actual mms of the telescope, or should i also include the crop factor? I mean multiply it with the crop factor of the camera? Thank you in advance!
PLease explain the wired ethernet connection. I'm using my ASI AIR pro through Wi-Fi but I'd like to use an emulator like BlueStacks and the ethernet cable. I have the cable installed and the correct ip address for the device and it says connected but Wi-Fi still takes precedence.
This is an excellent video Peter! I have couple of questions. When you say your mount is connected to your AAP are you talking about the power? ie. Are you powering your mount thru the AAP? Or are you talking about the GO TO/Slewing signals from AAP? I guess my question is how are your operating your mount via AAP? Maybe you talk about this and I missed it. Thanks!
This is my current setup
Canon R5
Canon RF 100-500
SA Tracker
ASI 120MM Mini
ZWO Mini Guide Scope
PHD2
SharpCap
NINA
MSI Laptop...
I've been debating on getting thr Asair plus, or just getting a cheaper laptop and keeping my current setup. I'm just looking for the best results. Could I get your opinion please, I've been watching you for along time and followed your guides since day one lol. Iv heard a lot of cons with the asair plus and only a hand full of good reviews with it, so I've been on the fence.. I'm looking at getting a go-to mount also.
what kind of goto mount you are using in this clip?
I guess I'm old school and like using my laptop. I hate all the wires, but I really dislike being strapped to a cellphone. The app that works with this device is not available for PC's. Oh well.
Great instructional video! is there an Asiair Plus user manual that can be downloaded as a PDF? When I go to the ZWO site I only see one for the first generation and Pro models.
can I plug it to the car cigarette lighter?
Hi. Thanks for the video.
I must be dense. I take a picture or video with the asiair and the images are no where to be seen. They don't show up anywhere in the eMMC file folders and when I connect to my computer there are still no files. What do I have to do to get it to save a file. It even tells me it is saving mp4, so what am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
You must be using the video feature for mp4. If ASIAir shows its saving then the file should be in the Video folder even if the image is black.
Your EQ6R-Pro requires 5amps power. How are you powering the mount?
Hello Peter, I have watched many of your videos and they are all tremendously well done and very helpful. I do have a question for you. I am trying to use my asi air plus to do some narrowband imaging. I have tried NGC 7000 (as well as a few other targets). I can't seem to get anything to show up in the preview. I have tried all of my narrowband filters and none of them show anything. I have had good success with my non narrowband filters on other objects so I feel I must be doing something wrong. I noticed you see the image without any additional workflow steps. I am using a ZWO 1600 cooled monochrome dedicated monochrome camera and the narrowband filters and wheel that came with the camera. I have tried exposures up to 300 seconds but still no luck. I saw in at least one of your videos you were using the same filters and saw an image with a 60 second exposure. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.
Thanks for the rundown! Question, after I start the shooting sequence, can I take my device away and reconnect it to my home wifi? Will that disrupt the shooting? Or do I need my device near the ASIAIR, connected to its wifi until shooting is done?
Since ZWO doesn't provide documentation no way to find out. I'm afraid you'll have to test that scenario yourself. The app on your phone/tablet is controlling the sequences etc so I would imagine if the connection was lost the ASIAir would stop whatever its doing.
Thanks so much for the tutorial, this is really helpful! One question though: how do you manage charging both your Asiair device and your mount? From the pictures, it seems like your battery is covering both devices, right?
Peter - what telescope are you using at 19:12?
Does the ASIAIR Plus have it's own dovetail bar? Or is that something that needs to be added? Thanks.
Does the dollar alignment mode work without a guiding camera? I'm a beginner and use a Samyang 135mm f2 with a ASI 533MC Pro and the ASIAir Pro
Does it works also with azimuthal mounts?
Peter, I own an ASI Air Pro. I plan to get it modified to get an external antenna. According to your presentation, that you did not see that much of a difference between the two. Therefore, I will send of my ASI Air pro for a new antenna. I just cannot see shelving the Pro and get a Plus for the improvement of WIFI. What are your thoughts? Thanks and good presentation.
@Peter or anyone, is a 12v 2A Wallwart good for running the ASIAIR Plus?
GREAT VIDEO! THANK YOU! This is exactly what I have been waiting/looking for. I have a Celestron 8" Evolution which is an ALT-AZ mount. Am I correct in assuming that I should be looking at a different setup entirely to use the ASI Air with? They do sell wedges for my current setup, but I can't imagine it would be "solid" enough for reliable operation?
Get a wedge and convert to equatorial and replicate true tracking and guiding. An Alt-Az mount is good for visual, not astrophotography. Like anything else, there are a range of wedges available, doing research and asking for performance opinions on astronomy websites will give you good feedback.
I'll hope they soon will support Sony cameras
If anyone knows:
1. Does the ASiair Plus work with Mesu Mount e200mkII ?
2. If you are taking images for several hours - does the App need to stay OPEN all that time? What happens if your Tablet or Phone is turned off in the meantime - does the ASiair Plus still "run" on its own until it is finished with imaging?
When taking the images to PA, can that be done with a DSLR? The only astro cam I have is the ASI 120mm mini for autoguiding, but I still use a Canon T3i for my main imaging camera.
I don't have my ordered Plus yet, but due to the fact it has a dslr shutter port, I'm confident the Plus will recognize a dslr as long as it has the live view function.
I have asiair pro can I just polar align then hit go to on I pad then hit plate solve? Because I have been doing 2 star align on celestron and that’s a lot of work. I use a WiFi extender on my pro and it works good.
Yes you can. The Polar Align on AAP is great. Goto on AAP from app on iPad screen is great too. The scope slews to selected target, takes an image to check that target is centred then confirms. It’s like magic after SkyGuider Pro
So what do you recommend:ASIAIR PRO or PLUS? I mean from the functionality point of view?
Is it worth paying a bit more for Plus just because it has a few improvements but not so huge overall?I want to buy one and I've seen many people that were very pleased with Asiair PRO and I don't know which one to pick.You've used both pro and plus.Any advice?Thanks
As of today, they show the Pro discontinued and only the Plus available for preorder. I'm not sure that will be available at the end of April as they suggest it might due to the world wide chip shortages. I've been shopping for a RPi 4 and can't get one. I did however see a used Pro on eBay for $600 with no extras. So, in hindsight, choose the one that's available.
Astroberry is free and supports other brands.
hi peter, comparing to the pro, is the plus faster in calculating? e.g. star size calculation, plate solve? i use the asi6200mm pro, this is a lot of pixels (61mpix)?
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The $49 antenna upgrade for the Pro would have been much cheaper.
Great review. Can I use the ASI pro/plus for planetary videos? I don’t want to buy a Windows laptop
yes, thats possible. Just used my AsiAir Pro for imaging Jupiter & Saturn
@@agentorange1291 That's good news. Did you capture video frames to stack? If so was the file format correct
@@craiglowery4427 Yes I've used the frames from a video file. You can choose AVI, MP4 or AVI+MP4.
@@agentorange1291 did you save onto the usb that comes with the AAP? (In usb3.0 socket). I tried that and it didn’t save for some reason
Hello Peter, I have a question about Live mode. As it been improved with the Plus version compared to the Pro version ? I have a Pro and unfortunately, there is no way to visualize the stacked image at the end of a live session. I have to take the image and use FITs viewer from AsiStudio to look at the final result. This implies taking the USB stick and plug it in a PC. I am doing EAA and it would be a big plus to have FITs viewer integrated with the Asi App. Looks like it is not planned by ZWO. Any trick you would have to view the result of a Live stack ?
Many thanks in advance.
What you see is the stacked Fits...
@@sebastienriviere695 maybe so but you do not see any more details than the first shot. I have to open the stacked version in FTIs viewer to see all the details as it uses a good AUTO histogram. In the Asi App, you do not see any details even when using manual histograms. Have you seen any details in the stacked FITs directly in the app ?
Thanks again for your help.
@@JeanFrancoisVerrier Depending on your seeing conditions, yes, I see the displayed live stack improving after each capture...
No power cable dos not suprise me. 1500 in a 071 mc. No case, no power cable.
I feel like this device must get very hot with all the power outputs, especially dew heaters. It's just a raspberry pi. Nevermind, the 12v in is just 12v thru. Nothing to do with the 5v section. But now I have typed too much to not comment.
Saw your name Peter 6:44
Ah to be young in this day and age! You clearly missed out on the age of dial up, Baud refers to the speed of a dial up modem over phone lines. We now use Megabits per second or even Gigabits since we all use broadband internet connections. But back in the day, when internet access first started over phone lines your baud rate was how fast your phone dial up modem could connect. The fastest without going up to DSL was 56.6. It was truly pathetic. Any yes I realize this video is 2 years old, but I'm a computer geek, of course I'm gonna still explain, tho I bet it has in the comments below.
I'm sorry but until ZWO includes other focusers other than their own, I will not be buying the ASI Air Plus and will be selling my current ASI Air Pro. If your 100% into ZWO, then get the ASI Air Plus. It works well for all things ZWO. But for me, I have multiple auto focusers, and unless ZWO has updated their marketing philosophy to work with 3rd party focusers and filter wheels, they will not.
Same for supported cameras. It’s shocking they claim Nikon Z support but actually it doesn’t, at least with huge issues
ZWO China number 1
Is it the same in Hong Kong, or do you need permission ?
Good but stop saying 'actually' repeatedly
Nice video. If you check the auto box in the PA screen the screen will refresh after every exposure so this make the adjustment process easier. You made me chuckle when you said that you set the temperature to Fahrenheit because you are in North America. FYI only the US uses Fahrenheit in North America the rest of the continent uses Celsius. 😀
@Buddy Austin , yes but only people outside of the U.S. know this.
@Buddy Austin
Do you only watch Fox News?
Superb review with excellent organization, presented in Setup and operational Tutorial sections. Everything one needs to get started, even without previous ASIAir experience. Just waiting for a clear sky so I can test mine! Thanks for your efforts on this, Peter!