This astrophotography for everyone. Amazingly fast, amazingly easy! First Light with a Starizona HyperStar lens and Starlight Xpress CCD Camera under light polluted skies.
Yes, if the scope is fastar compatible. You should expect to reach down to 17 mag. with a 10 second exposure (typical good CCD camera). That is like having a 30" scope in a dark location visually. . . .except it is in color : )
Dean and the crew are very helpful when it comes to the hyperstar. I have one on an 8" SCT. have talked with Dean a few times about it. He offers great suggestions to fix problems he knows about. I might be looking for a lager SCT to use maybe a 9.25" or 11"
I would like to see a follow up video. Go thru the whole alignment process and video capture. I think this is a great product wish I could afford the whole package
Hi James, Light pollution hurts, but using a good light pollution filter helps greatly. The filter threads into the HyperStar camera adapter and resides inside the HyperStar below the camera.
If you do not wish diffraction spikes then bring the USB and power cords away from the camera with curves. If you want them bring the wires off at right angles to each other.
Hi Popelka, Dean does this so the cords will create nicer diffraction spikes on brighter stars, rather than the two cords together (fatter) draped to the bottom.
I have a nexstar 6se that is not fast-star compatible and I couldn't find a converter kit on your website. Is the only way to get compatible to by a new ota? I really dont want to do that.
Starizona Does the HyperStar lens shortens the focal length of my SCT; the Celestron 8" SCT has a focal length of about 2000mm and f10, would it make the telescope a 400 mm focal length assuming a f2 ?
I wish gas prices were what they were when you did this video...... I also wouldn't believe you could take such great images from your location, but I saw it with my own eyes there in the parking lot. That's why I now have a Hyperstar. Nothing else comes close.
You don't need to re-collimate with hyperstar. It does not impact the telescopes existing (perfect) collimation...meaning if your telescope was already collimated, Hyperstar will not mess it up. When done shooting with Hyperstar, you put the secondary lens back in and your scope is back to visual configuration with the same collimation you had before.
He added a counterweight and light stopper to balance the oncoming camera and close the eyepiece section so light won't get in. Kind of nifty, kill two birds with one stone.
Just get a cheap focal reducer and a color dedicated camera for telescopes! Geez around 300.00 dollars can do all this instead of spending thousands on hyperstar and the starlight. Nice stuff but way too expensive. And for the price you would think they would have wifi on it instead of those dam wires messing up the view and in the way.
