Good job. Me too am starting on this hobby and also inspired by Peter Zelinka. I'm waiting for my gear to arrive to start tests. As I'm on the Southern Hemisphere things will be interesting when doing the polar alignment. Cheers from Brazil and clear skies.
I enjoyed the video. Think I would like to see something similar in portuguese. Although I'm comfortable with English, I think a lot of people would benefit if it was in Portuguese. Was glad to know that I'm not the only one who follows Peter Zelinka! I laughed a bit with the music. A little bit of Trevor Jones there....😅
Fantastic video, i have just invested in an ASIair pro to go with my Mirrorless setup. Along with a guide scope. I like your setup. has given me a few ideas. Thanks man
Don't worry about weight with that setup, my Z73 + guide scope + filter wheel + DSLR + laser + flattener = 10.4 lbs. I can run 15 min exposures (which I don't) without any trails.
Very interesting video, I plan to use an ASIAIR Pro with my Nikon DLSR, and I was waiting for such video. Could you make a video to show the initial camera (DSLR) setting ?
Nice! I came across this video looking for something else and thought imediately "oh Portugal also has a Peter Zelinka" so I laughed a bit when you mentioned where you took your inspiration. Good job, very happy to see a portuguese production. I do have a question: where did you get those USB flat short cables? Mine, the origional that came with the 120MC and 294MC are extraordinarily long!
Thank you for uploading. I had the opportunity to view a rocket launch in 2018. Amazing experience. I uploaded a pretty fun montage of the trip to my channel.
Thanks for this video... I tried this setup last night and it would not calibrate guiding... now I see how/where to turn Dec Mode off... Thanks.. I hope that solves the calibration fail problem.
It's up to you actually, fo the heavier payload it's better to mount it on the longer side, but in this case you'll need to solve the problem of free DEC rotation, e.g by replacing the screw with a shorter one like I did
I guess it all comes down to exposure time, there should be some amount of seconds your amount will be able to track using 400mm without star trails. Probably it won't be enough if it's e.g. 15 seconds. But you have to test it with your own mount cause the second factor is how well built and greased the mount is.
Hi, good job !!!, realy like your video. I'm using set up like yours. I wonder how long your battery (12V, 12 Ah) will last ?. Presently I'm getting power from the plug in the wall, but eventualy want to buy battery (when I go on the trip). I have hard time to estimate the set up power needs. Can you please help with that. Thank you
Thanks! I still didn't manage to push it to the end, it worked at least 5 hours powering DSLR, ASIAIR pro, one dew heater when it was 5°C outside. But depends on your equipment as well
@@astroswell Hi, Thanks, I'm using equipment like yours, only exception is the camera, Nikon instead of Canon. I have another question. Did you try to power Skygider Pro using your external battery ?. I've sent email to iOptron, but no answer so far.
I didn't and that's one of the benefits of having the skyguider, cause it's not draining your main battery. But I know it's possible, you just need a 12v-5v converter
Thank you for the video. How are you able to preview the image from your Canon camera on the ASIAIR pro? I assumed you could only do that with a dedicated ASI astro camera. I just got the ASIAIR pro and 120 mini for guiding and I’m shooting with a Sony A7rIII on a HEQ5 mount.
ASIAIR pro supports several canon and nikon cameras, though not recent models yet as far as I know. Everyone wants them to support recent mirrorless, and from sony as well. Hopefully they'll add it in the future. The only workaround for now is to use StellarMate OS on the ASIAIR pro, although it's a pretty raw product and not as user friendly as asiair app
AstroSwell oh ok thanks! I’m trying to set it up with the asi air pro and it’s not seeing the camera :/. Just bought the 3.0 mini cable (the one I have currently is the 2.0) so hopefully that works
Ive watched this a couple times now just because you give so much great info so thank you! One question....when trying to polar align with the ASIair Pro and Skyguider I follow the prompt through to when it asks to slew to 60 degrees but as its not a goto mount the ASI air does recognise any movement so I can't proceed but in the video you polar alignment routine runs all the way through, have you got any tip as I'm really stuck! 🙂
What I do at this stage is that I manually rotate the the mount clockwise(if looking from the polar scope out hole) roughly 60 degrees, don't need to be precise. Then I click Rotated and it proceeds. All of my issues with PA were related to asiair not being able to plate solve the images. That's what you need to make sure first in the Preview mode. Click plate solve and check if it works. Once it plate solves you go to the PA. Let me know if it helped
@@astroswell so I did a bit of digging around and found others Skyguider/ASIair users had a similar problem as me. I had to turn off the mount in app and on the Skyguider to complete the PA, when it was done just reconnect in app and on the mount. Strange way to get PA but it works! 👏🏻😀
Thanks for this video! I have a question, as I am about to purchase the ASI Air for my Star Adventurer coupled with my Nikon mirrorless camera. To get Andromeda in the viewfinder, did you use ASI Air to locate it, or did you do it "manually" by pointing your lens to about where it ought to be in the night sky?
Hey, the easiest and the most precise way for me is use plate-solving to center the frame to the coordinates of the object. Basically by knowing the e.g Andromeda RA and Dec values you can get as close as possible to them in the ASI air app
@@astroswell Thanks for the reply! That's what I suspected you were doing. Also, if I may ask, how do you get your image files from the ASI Air to your PC?
@@davidletz9123 sure, older version could store them both on the SD card or usb drive, I use the latter usually. Newer ones have internal storage I believe, apparently you connect them directly to pc and transfer. But I don't know for sure
I'm struggling to figure out how you connected your L-bracket to your ioptron:) did you have to use longer bolts and a dovetail rail?? All advice appreciated.
I had a short dovetail plate with 1/4 screw and I would attach the L bracket to it using that screw. Then I would mount that dovetail on the mount. If you see my later videos I actually removed L bracket it favor of a longer dovetail bar to which I attach asiair pro, guide and camera side by side
@@mikezhao1931 thanks! You actually don't need it to be perfectly aligned, for autoguiding the rough alignment is ok for focal distances that short. And for the PA the alignment doesn't matter at all, cause you essentially aligning the RA axis of the mount and if polar alignment is good, it works for any scope installed on the mount
@@astroswell Thanks for your quick response! So, to do PA, even guider scope is not parallel to the RA axis of the mount, it will be fine, as long as the guider scope can 'see' the Polaris. Right?
Уважаемый tomato, простите , не знаю Ваше имя, в сюжетах Вы не представляетесь, можете немного рассказать о показанном на видео сетапе, в часности интересует связь трекера с Аси Эйр, каким образом управляете монтировкой со смартфона, что за ПО. Спасибо
Я не tomato, tomato из chilescope, а я Максим) асиэир создаёт вайфай к которому смартфон и подключается, и через приложение asiair управляется. Очень удобно. По asiair вроде много материалов на ютубе
Максим, спасибо за ответ, какое приложение установлено на смартфоне, интересовал именно трекер iOpttron, возможность сконнектить его с Аси Эйр и далее со смартфонов, пардон за имя, в подписи к видео не увидел.
Ну если речь о трекере то асиэир может только автогидировать и помогать выставлять полярку, на этом управление заканчивается. А полноценой монтировкой можно полностью управлять
