Tracking ANDROMEDA with the SKY-WATCHER STAR ADVENTURER
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“Unfortunately I’ve forgotten my camera gear, my van, and my clothes - and that, officer, is why I’m stood stark bollock-naked in this field.”
(Stunning Andromeda pic! 🌌)
Lol
I wish more people would show single image shots like that. It just shows what you can do without a lot of computer work.
When framing your shot, don't forget you can rotate the camera around the center axis of the lens via the lens collar to give you a third point of adjustment.
That is stunning for a single exposure. Can't wait to watch more of your videos on deep sky astrophotography :)
I am getting a tracking mount for my birthday in 4 days... you can now guarantee cloudy nights for the foreseeable future. sorry guys
Damn, what? you do astrophotography and yet still get big birthday gifts like that? How young are you?
@@linkedwinters you can do astrophotography as young as you want, you just need to know how to do it.
@@linkedwinters lol i’m 17 & my parents bought me most of my gear
@@cruznunez7567 Dude I wish we could afford that in my family hahaha
@@linkedwinters hey man i only have a dobsonian some filters some eyepieces & a star tracker , when i grow up ima buy myself the best i can get bcs i love it & if i were you , i’d save up money slowly , it’s worth it
I have watched a TON of AP vids. Alyn has THE BEST intro EVER!
Star adventurer best astro investment I have made - always gives me good shots, even on poor nights up in the beacons. Its quick and easy to setup, takes camera and /or small telescope, light and portable, batteries last for ages, different speeds for sidelreal, lunar, solar and time lapse.
But the polar scope cover and battery cover are cheap and nasty, ocassionaly accidently switch on the mount when in the case
Yup agree with all your concerns as well
You can make a dew shield from a piece of paper or card and some tape if you've forgotten your proper one at home.
May you rest In Peace Alyn. You will be missed.
Th SA is a great piece of portable gear for tracking. There are easier ways to set up, but once you get it.... you get it.
Look forward to your journey with this equipment Alyn, thanks for the videos. 👍
Dude! I love your channel even more now I know you have a camper! I feel your pain about forgetting kit. I once forgot both the tripod adapter and my only SD card at the time on. Oh! and then there was the time when I left the focus mask on for an entire imaging run! All my stars looked like 6 legged creatures!
Man these videos are just the best. Just so chill to watch
its much more chill when youre doing whilst smoking a j
Pretty!! At least you explain what YOU like and don't like.
I always have various crap in my vehicle so when a lens hood is forgotten, I can tape on a coffee cup, magazine cover etc. I got nuked by lens fog when I was using a really wide lens which you really can't put anything around with out heavy vignetting . Shopping for a warmer to keep the dew at bay.
Great stuff with a hell lot of information. I'm particularly glad you don't hold back with your own little imperfections (lens warmers). It's good to know that it's not only happening to myself ;)
Exactly why I started these videos! So I could share the cockups 😂
@@AlynWallace LOL - of course, why else would you run this channel ?
Btw.: I'm looking forward to meet you on 16th December in person. Can't wait to shake hands with the local Astro-Rockstar ;)
RIP my friend. You'll be missed.
Nice results I use a Fornax Lightrack II with a Canon 300mm f2.8 I wish I could go to Wales more often I'm in light polluted Watford. It's been nothing but rain and unfortunately the nights it's been clear I'm too tired to stay up.
I just got the star adventurer pro pack, I have a Sony A7IV, sony 14mm f1.8 GM, 50mm f1.2 GM and 70-200 f2.8 GM II. I would love to be able to capture andromeda and other cool things in our sky. Thanks for your videos, I’ll try this weekend
Thank you Alyn, Just ordered the star adventurer 2I. You got me hooked. Wish me luck. Have a super weekend.
Just to clarify for beginners "in the crosshair of your polarscope" It really should state "in the correct position of the reticle" The polar axis will be in the crosshair. Polaris will be somewhere in the circle.
Also a polar finding app shows where the position that polaris needs to be in that circle relative to the time and GPS location. Before I had a tracker with polarscope, I couldn't figure out how to use the app because it only shows position to place in reticle and does not do anything else.
It left me confused because I was outside with a camera trying to figure out which stars was polaris....doesn't work that way! LOL.
Not sure where you are, but I am also north at 51 114 west
Star Adventurer is a killer little tracker, I got mine this past July and got excellent results first try, with a Canon 7D Mkii and 300mm lens
That single frame of M31 is great. I am using 120 sec subs and the background is not even close to as dark. I currently have 40 120's of M31 haven't processed yet, but they are not nearly as clean as that shot of yours.
Probably the best video ever seen.. well done !
Hi Alyn, only recently discovered your photos! I'm from North Wales and your photos have inspired me to go out more, just received the same tracker in the post too, looking forward to testing it out 😀
NICE shots!!!
My SKY-WATCHER STAR ADVENTURE came with a plastic insert that you install in the micro adapter in insert the light in that so your camera can be mounted when you do your alignment
If you use the l-bracket it's fine yeah but not the little ballhead mount as that covers up the polar scope
Just got my Star Adventurer 2i in November. True to form, I haven't had but 3-5 clear nights since then. I am hoping to get polar alignment worked out by the end of January as I hope to image the comet then. I have subscribed and will be watching more of your vids. Great job!
Looks fantastic and using the Skywatcher is worth every pretty penny.
With the addition of the right apps to give you the correct tracking alignment is a boost.
Love your work. Cheers
I’m waiting on my sky watcher AZ TI hope it will allow me to photo some milky way and nebulas.
La Star Adventurer, est une merveille.
Amazing universe and Andromeda
Ok let me just re watch that intro about ten more times...!
That single frame you got is incredible! Good luck next time with Andromeda! I still need to get my hands on that tough ;)
Cheers dude!
Some may find acquiring a target constrained to movement in RA and DEC easier than flopping around lose on a ball head, I have.
Hi Alyn! Maybe, this could work, with a cleaning cloth, put it between your front element and your hand, warm it for a few minutes, and the lens will last a little bit more without fog, or... that if you don’t want to use your van AC, this are temporary solutions, but better than nothing!
FLASH light !!!!! 3:22 after that lets go for 20-30 min waiting for see again xD
To find Polaris, just use Stellarium.
Just got one and am looking for video tutorials. This was very helpful. Thanks. Now just have to wait for more clear weather.
Nice Andromeda image despite all the setbacks Alyn. I also have the SKY-WATCHER STAR ADVENTURER which is pretty good. I am just waiting for some nice clear skies to do some imaging with it, well this is the UK after all!
I love your van.
Awesome video as always Alyn! I also got the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer and I am thinking about to astro mod my Nikon D750.
Absolutely love your vlogs and info you share. Thanks. Fingers crossed for a clear weekend night. Orion is 1st on my target list! 😁
I have one of these on order and plan to try it with my Panasonic S1H and the Leica 90-280mm. That will be heavy (about 7lbs). So it will test what this machine can handle. I guess you were about 5 pounds with your set up.
Great video Alyn. Really impressive that You could get sharp results with such long exposures and 400mm. When I used 200mm on a Canon crop camera (equivalent to 320mm) I got star trails after 30 seconds
I'm stumped how some people (Peter Zelinka) with this kit can only get 30 second shots, you get 2 mins, and astrobackyard 4 mins. Without Auto-guiders. Is that testament to the quality of the drives...hit and miss? Which is what's made me hold off buying one, and looking more at £1000+ units, and sacrifice mobility.
My personal rate at 400mm focal length is 1min30secs with about a 50% success rate sometimes a bit more. Fornax Lightrack is good option for better tracking and portability
I'm trying to get some shots with my tamron 600mm. Complete pain in the butt to keep my tracker on Polaris while trying to reposition the lense. Only tried the tracker for about 2 nights however. Dang weather is just clouds and high high high winds..
Great vid! Love the feeling!
I have taken this same shot with the same gear, the only difference was the
Camera.. I use a Fuji xT2 body ( unmodified) with Fuji 100-400mm !
Good stuff.. I subscribed. !!
Incredible amount of useful info packed into 11.5 minutes! Thanks.
You’ve probably done this already, but on mine I removed the left/right lens mount from the dovetail bracket to replace it with the ball head for more movement to frame up.
Nice video man. I took polar aligning for granted in the northern hemisphere, haha. I’m waiting on my Pole Master for my EQ3 GoTo Mount to come. Hopefully have my new astro setup done by Christmas.
Amazing! Love this video! Thanks so much Alyn for sharing your thoughts and inputs on space, astrophotography etc. Keep it up, well done!
Fantastic video! And complain all you want, but that one image is really, really good IMHO. BTW is your camera body modified or no? I can never get that much color from Cygnus no matter what I do with my unmodified Nikon.
I use hand warmers they work well
Ill have to visit Wales one day.
Great stuff Alyn! Lovely for a single exposure. Man that Orion dazzling in the background from 8:16 😜✌️
sometimes after hours of stacking i dont have same quality than you with a single exposure ! i just miss the dark sky :/
OMG the intro looks sooooo cool! Good job Alyn!
Thats beautiful mate.Still haven't got myself a tracker but hopefully soon.
Any tips on how to find your deep sky object Alyn? With big telescopes viewfinders help, plus Stellarium/Cartes du Ciel can guide the mount to the right region getting you very close, but how to do this with a camera on a Welsh mountain is unclear to me. Must be increasing harder as focal length gets longer. Cheers mate !
Nice work! This give me the reference for my unit that I had trouble to track star perfectly.
Very good Alyn. I am looking to do a bit more deep space work this winter. I use a Fornax Lightrack II, which I replaced my Astrotrac with. The Astrotrac was a really good mount, but was let down by a poor polar scope.
Let me know how you find the Fornax. Will have to try one out one day but does look a bit bulky
@@AlynWallace It's really good pal, if a little heavy. It's probably a bit more suitable for the longer lenses like your 100-400 but I have used an old 300mm f4 on Andromeda the other week & it came out really well, with no trailing at all at 2 minutes.I never got even that with the Astrotrac, but I blame the horrible polar scope for that. I even got some detail on the Ring Nebula (M57) even though it's tiny through a lens. I will be limiting all of my deep space exposures to 2 minutes, to be more consistent.
I'm thinking of buying the same bit of kit as yourself to fit my Canon 5d mark iv and sigma 150-600mm on to see what I can get
Great vlog by the way 👍
hey mate, how did you get on with this? ive got the 6d and the same sigma lens and im waiting for SA pro to be delivered
I really like the astrovlogs thank you
Incredible!!!!!!!.....Thank you for sharing..
I have and love this mount. I have the Canon 60Da Astro modified camera that I use on it. . I am thinking about getting the new Canon EOS Ra but it is so expensive.
Shockingly expensive...
For Andromeda, could you take a photo at ISO 800 using this tracker?
Also I have two lenses, 75-300, and 150-600. Which one would you recommend for this galaxy?
Now that's a great setup 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
First, looking forward to get my first astro mod camera
Great video, thanks. Can you tell me which Benro ballhead you have as I don't see it listed. Thanks
Great video Alyn, down here in South Africa I'm using the Skywatcher star adv, it sadly does suffer from PEC so there's always going to be throw away frames. I know you can send it up for tune up in the UK but for what I use it for, it didn't seem worth it for me.
Many people I know use the PoleMaster for alignment, though you’ll need to drag more kit with you.
Oh, I was hoping to see how you use the ra and dec to frame the object, Im getting this tommorow and I have like 0 clue how eq mounts work, Im used to alt az.
There's a manual knob on the dial to move in small increments in DEC and then there are two red arrow buttons to move elctronically in small increments in Ra. Makes framing easy :)
truly stunning.
Amazing, look forward to see more videos
How do you focus if you don't see the object? And when using lens warmers: does the heated air around the lens not influence the seeing?
Haven’t even watched the video yet but that intro earned a like and subscribe.
Hello Allan absolutely love your videos.
I too have a star adventure pro and am using my Nikon d7500 with a Nikon 55-300 lens lowest f stop is f5.6 with a lens warmer.
I have spent 3 months trying to get an image of a galaxy. But I am really really struggling. I am not using a ball head and simply mounting straight to the slide mount exactly like you have done in the later part of this video.
My issue is locating the target galaxy. I use stellarium to roughly find the location of the galaxy. However it’s not visible in live view. So I am having to take a photo zoomed out then try to find a star pattern on the photo and try to match it to a star map that’s near my target. This is exceptional difficult once I know where I am I them move the camera on the declination and left and right until I think I have found it. This takes me from the point of a proper polar alignment about 3 hours to do. Using this method above is also very difficult because of the orientation of the camera vs the star map I use on stellerium.
On the plus side I am getting nice sharp stars with not trails so I am getting close to where I need to be. Can you give me any advise on how to locate my target galaxy quicker because by the time I find it in the sky it’s getting very late into the night or the weather conditions change. I know your a really busy man but if you can give me any advise it would be very very helpful.
Kind Regards
Tom
Excellent video! Quick question for anyone.... using the accessory can you illuminate the polar scope cross hair/clock with balancing mount and everything connected? many thanks
Hey Alyn! How did you find the target in the first place? You made it look so simple.
Star hopping. Use an app like Stellarium to find a bright star nearby, start there and then hop from star to star until you're at your target.
How does it rotate. I have a star adventure but I can’t seem to understand how it rotates. After I lock it in place. Do I have to unlock it? And if so it rotates and drops. Would love to get some feedback. Thank you.
How did you manage to get the illuminator to work for the polar align? Mine won't fit on once the dovetail is mounted. You can see through the polar scope but can't illuminate the reticle without holding the light in one hand. I'm thinking you might be using some kind of adapter for that?
THANKYOU...
Beautiful video Alyn Wallace, congratulations really,a question if you can,self-driving photographers? Without self-driving until you can chase without having the micromox? Thank you very much and have a good day
Hi i have sony 7r2 and sigma 100-400 F5 -6.5 Can I make foto to Andromeda Galaxy. I have Vixen polarie too. Thanks
'lovin the vlogs, Alyn! Thanks for the shares... 'just a bit confused though... Do you prefer using the Skywatcher as your primary, or do you find yourself relying more on the i-Optron? That's an impressive collection of glass you have, btw!
Dude your intro was sick!
Love your intro
Liked and I will not ne able to watch the video before tomorrow xD
Great video like always!👏Thanks for sharing!
9:07 scared me when he started the time-lapse
Another great video.
I have one question, though: how do you keep the filter dew free? I myself use a small fan attached to a second tripod and pointed right at the filter. But that's a lot to carry.
Or does a dew heater produce enough heat to keep the lens and the filter dew free?
When I stand still at night and stare at any star in the sky, they move around with like an anti gravity type movement but still stay in their respective spots..why do they move like that?? Does anyone know the answer to my question?
So is polaris not the north star? I am confused :(
What does the equatorial mount give you? Looking on Amazon the kit with it is 3 times the price of the Pro kit
The William Optics Z61 pairs really well with the SW SA.
Have heard good things! Not a bad price either
@@AlynWallace quality optics and great build. Well worth a punt.
I have done the same thing Z61 with entry level DSLR - never fails to give me some decent shots, even on poor nights.
Just love you work❤️Keep it up!!
hello, what camera do you shoot your blog with? she is light sensitive!
"Not bad" Looks dope to me.
Good night my friend
I saw your video on yt about sky watcher (vlog 30). I would very much like to buy one to use here in Brazil, but I have not found any shutter release cable compatible with Sony alpha for the timelapse function. I also opened the instruction manual for the skyguider and sky watcher tracker, and none of them had a sony alpha compatible cable. Only canon and nikon.
Do you know if there is a compatible cable for sony alpha cameras for this tracker?
thankful
Thanks! I use Anker but they are not 12v
Nice dude, ive got the original star adventurer but cant get anything sharp over 2 minutes at 50mm never mind 400! Something loose in reticle, when you turn it you can see it jump sometimes so need to figure out how to tighten it and recenter it
Ah they're a nightmare to calibrate sometimes!
Hi Alyn, total novice here. Could you recommend a tracker for the Nikon P1000, I'd like to track the sun, moon and wondering stars (planets). Thankyou in advance.