Deep sky Astro imaging from your iPad! Plate solving EAA with ASI Air and a HyperStar'd C8 telescope

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By popular request, here's a video demoing how we can control our mount with the ASI Air mini computer, wirelessly. I'm warm indoors, the telescope is outside braving a 30º temperature. The magic of plate-solving lets us navigate the night sky, and nobody has to be outside near the telescope to use the hand controller at all!

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19 ноя 2023

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Комментарии : 33

@flatoot 7 месяцев назад

Im falling in love with this scope. Ive not owned a telescope since i was much younger. I really like how simple the setup is with built in battery etc. Thanks for showing us all the add ons you've got and taking us through those images. It looks like its got a lot of potential. Certainly enough for my desires.

@MikeLikesChannel 7 месяцев назад

So glad to hear it. I've owned a lot of telescopes... and yeah, the C8 is my fave by far. In a single night, I've done Hyperstar EAA, visual on the moon with my kids, and some f/6.3 photos of the moon too! Schmidt-cassegrains are the most flexible of all telescopes. And it fits in my car with both my kids, unlike my Dob.

@flatoot 7 месяцев назад

@@MikeLikesChannel sounds good. I'd like to be able to view all sorts so sounds like the C8 will be a good choice. Thanks for the feedback 👍

@jslawsby 4 месяца назад

Love your videos. I’ve decided to buy my fist telescope and have found tour videos to be super helpful. I was thinking evolution 8. Use case is for a house I have in the Caribbean on an island with under 300 people so no light pollution. Nearest street light is over a mile from my house. Anything you would recommend I look at instead? Thanks for any thoughts.

@MikeLikesChannel 4 месяца назад

Nah that’s a great choice!

@BookerHewitt 8 месяцев назад

Very cool, thank you for the video!

@poisonpen26 8 месяцев назад

great video mike. getting my asi plus today. wish me luck!

@MikeLikesChannel 8 месяцев назад

Amazing, I'll wish you clear skies too! We all know new astronomy gear comes packed in with clouds ☁️ 😉

@surgeon1000000 Месяц назад

why didn't you focus?

@randallpatrickc 7 месяцев назад

MIke - somewhere in one of your vids, you showed (I think) a MacBook hooked to your iPad. What was that for? Images? (BTW, thanks SO much for all your help - moving me along slowly! ASI Air on order now. You should setup a "Thanks $" button for more tangible thanks!

@MikeLikesChannel 7 месяцев назад

I just use my MacBook to record my iPad’s screen to share here :)

@randallpatrickc 7 месяцев назад

My MacBook is an Intel Pro - will that share pics from (old) iPad Pro?@@MikeLikesChannel

@terryleitch8363 4 месяца назад

Does the ASI Mini make the StarSense superfluous?

@MikeLikesChannel 4 месяца назад

For alignment the starsense camera still does the job.

@Vventimiglia1984 5 месяцев назад

Mike can you tell us what camera you used in this video?

@MikeLikesChannel 4 месяца назад

It’s an ASI294MC. The uncooled version. EAA doesn’t require additional cooling.

@briangleeson1528 8 месяцев назад

You make it look too easy! Thanks for the videos. In this video, is the ASI providing tracking input, or just the Celestron mount by itself? I've asked my SO for a ASI Mini for Xmas.

@MikeLikesChannel 8 месяцев назад

Great ? So ASI Air doesn't do any tracking computations, the mount handles all that... ASI Air just asks the mount to track at the sidereal (or lunar) rate.

@poisonpen26 7 месяцев назад

hey mike what kind of finderscope bracket your using to hold the asi air onto the telescope and where did you get it? I bought one from ebay but its abit to big for my asi plus's mounting base to slide in.

@MikeLikesChannel 7 месяцев назад

agenaastro.com/agena-cross-slot-dovetail-mounting-base-finder-xfurb.html this is the one, doesn't include the mounting screws though... I seem to remember buying some metric ones for it locally.

@poisonpen26 7 месяцев назад

@@MikeLikesChannel Thanks mike your a huge help.

@ChuckBigbie 5 месяцев назад

The stars and uranus have a black circle in the middle , is that from hyperstar or focus or something else?

@NestecStudios 7 месяцев назад

I may have to pick your brain in the next few weeks. I ordered an 8” Evolution Edge HD for the family for Christmas. It’s been waiting in its packaging in the closet since before Thanksgiving.

@MikeLikesChannel 7 месяцев назад

Awesome, feel free to join us on Reddit at /r/telescopes or CloudyNights too! That's gonna be awesome, fantastic scope!

@NestecStudios 7 месяцев назад

@@MikeLikesChannel I found out RU-vid is automatically deleting my comments. Did you happen to see that meteor tonight?

@poisonpen26 8 месяцев назад

hey make do you get any delays slewing from left to right and vice versa using the evo mount? I have a slight delay with mines. I wonder if im having an issue with backlash.

@MikeLikesChannel 8 месяцев назад

I haven't noticed that, but yeah sometimes the weighting plays a factor. I like to position my scope in the vixen plate where if I set the altitude clutch free, the scope stays level without sinking. Doesn't always work depending on what accessories I've got installed, but usually "close"

@randallpatrickc 8 месяцев назад

So once you’ve focused do you have to re-focus?

@MikeLikesChannel 8 месяцев назад

Generally not, but for a particularly long session where ambient (and your mirror) temperatures are rapidly falling, sometimes it does become necessary.

@randallpatrickc 8 месяцев назад

@@MikeLikesChannel can you see the focus on the screen?

@MikeLikesChannel 8 месяцев назад

@@randallpatrickc with a Bahtinov mask focused on a bright star, yes.

@randallpatrickc 7 месяцев назад

Did you use “flats” and “darks” ? If so how?

@MikeLikesChannel 7 месяцев назад

Yep, ASI Air software includes that routine to capture bias, flats, darks. Helps some.