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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- At my birthday I was gifted with a beautiful night sky! Time to get my rig out and running and to get the first light onto the sensor of my Canon EOS 6D full frame camera. How does the Sky Watcher HEQ5 Pro and the William Optics Zenithstar 73/430 perform? Will I be able to get a good polar and 2 star alignment and how does the SynScan App work?
Time to answer those questions!
Gear: (with affiliate links)
William Optics Zenithstar 73/430 at OPT (bit.ly/3YFYLc2)
Sky Watcher HEQ5 Pro (bit.ly/3jdJWNs)
William Optics 50/200 mm Rotolock Guide Scope (bit.ly/3VcXLsH)
Canon EOS 6D (amzn.to/3BSrlwP)
Omegon 1200 Color CMOS Guide Camera (bit.ly/3jdKPWi)
MeLE Quieter3C (amzn.to/3VrFyIh)
Svbony Light Pollution Filter (amzn.to/3WolUhw)
Nice balcony! Having balcony envy now. You can see zenith! So good.
Thank you I really appreciate the space it gives me! I have great luck!
5:40 With the issue of the focus locking screw, you could always loosen the mounting clamps on the scope and rotate the scope so that the screw is sticking out sidewise or is on top. That would give you better access to it. As long as you can rotate the camera on the scope, it shouldn't be an issue with framing.
well done Benjamin… first light and a great picture of Andromeda with a single 30sec exposure…. 👍
Thank you! It amazes me what is possible with only this amount of data! Really looking forward to those long time stacked exposures!
@@DocAstro you have a fantastic telescope there, i’ve gone green with envy… 🔭
I shall be following you closely. I have the same OTA, a Canon 60D astro modded and will shortly be getting a re-engineered HEQ5 from Darkframe Optics in the UK. I already run StellarMate (Kstars / EKOS) for mount control.
N.I.N.A. 👍
In the next video 🤗
Super Video ! PS : 90 ° RA or DEC ? 😉
Good start, DocAstro 👍.
Thank you! I already had the opportunity to get some serious long exposures. Looking forward to share it with you!
The real game changer is the ASIAIR Plus, it polar aligns just great, plate solves, I have the Zenithstar 73 as well great scope, keep up the good work
Thank you! And yes, I have looked into it and it is really impressive. You will see in one of my next videos that I have chosen something very similar but home made :-)
N.I.N.A does all that and it's free. Only downside is it's not for RasPi. But it works with any camera.
PLEASE don't get yourself locked in the ASI Air prison!!! That is a black hole!
Not only will it limit your future choices on equipment, they are illegally using Open Source GPL license software that is harming the hobby as a whole.
There are plenty of other choices out there, NINA (nuc PC), Astroberry, Stellarmate (both on Rsdp Pi), APT (PC) just to name a few. Not only are these cheaper / better, they are truly better for the astro community!
@@poruatokinhello, yes totally agree with you, but for me the ease of use, no laptop, multitude of program's to learn, it's so easy to just plug and play.
@@billwright9518 Don't forget, no freedom to select any non zwo camera choice as well.
Hello. I recently upgraded from the star adventure 2I and using a canon t-7 to the. Heq5 pro mount i didnt know after i bought it it doesn't use
A snap port for the dslr. I realy dont want to use the intervalometer unless i have to but i know you can hook to the synscan hand controller are you using the canon camera connect app
Or what app are you using to control the camera wirelessly. I need help on this issue.Thanks. Jim Portland oregon
how do you deal with the compass on the telephone? If you get close to iron with you phone, my compas going wild. Even with only the tripod.
Never had a problem with that. It is also more an estimate than a precise maneuver ;)
Same issue here. I just eyeball it and continue from there :) (I do the 3-star alignment process in Nina)
PLEASE don't get yourself locked in the ASI Air prison!!! That is a black hole!
Not only will it limit your future choices on equipment, they are illegally using Open Source GPL license software that is harming the hobby as a whole.
There are plenty of other choices out there, NINA (nuc PC), Astroberry, Stellarmate (both on Rsdp Pi), APT (PC) just to name a few. Not only are these cheaper / better, they are truly better for the astro community!