I am so glad I found your video! It looks great, even without autotracking. I am so excited to use my SeeStar for the eclipse next month. I'll also be using my camera with Eclipse Orchestrator (and if that fails, manually). I've been worrying about the SeeStar's tracking during the near totality phases, but this alleviates a lot of that worry. Great video!
The autotracking feature was released the day before the eclipse, but I was traveling and didn't have the chance to update the software, so used it without autotracking. However, people who have experimented by covering the scope for the length of totality have reported that it holds tracking just fine and should hold the sun through the eclipse. Good luck! I'll be in Kerrville, Texas for the eclipse.
When you do, take it off auto-gain. Pick a gain, and stick with it through the whole eclipse. That's why, in my video, as the moon covered more and more of the sun, the sun got brighter. It was "auto" adjusting.
I have a SeeStar S50 on order with one goal being next year's eclipse. What I can't seem to find out is how to program it to take image sequences like this. Can you tell it to take one image per minute or something along those lines? How many images can it store before the memory fills up? Thanks
I am so glad I found your video! It looks great, even without autotracking.
I am so excited to use my SeeStar for the eclipse next month. I'll also be using my camera with Eclipse Orchestrator (and if that fails, manually). I've been worrying about the SeeStar's tracking during the near totality phases, but this alleviates a lot of that worry.
Great video!
The autotracking feature was released the day before the eclipse, but I was traveling and didn't have the chance to update the software, so used it without autotracking. However, people who have experimented by covering the scope for the length of totality have reported that it holds tracking just fine and should hold the sun through the eclipse. Good luck! I'll be in Kerrville, Texas for the eclipse.
Nice job! I’m looking forward to using my SeeStar S50 for the April 2024 eclipse.
When you do, take it off auto-gain. Pick a gain, and stick with it through the whole eclipse. That's why, in my video, as the moon covered more and more of the sun, the sun got brighter. It was "auto" adjusting.
What time interval did you use? 1sec or more?
One frame per second
FYI annular eclipses don't reach totality. Good work.
Totality of annularity. The sun isn't totally covered, but the moon appears totally in front of the sun.
I have a SeeStar S50 on order with one goal being next year's eclipse. What I can't seem to find out is how to program it to take image sequences like this. Can you tell it to take one image per minute or something along those lines? How many images can it store before the memory fills up? Thanks
When you’re seestar arrives upgrade the firmware to the latest version and it will have time-lapse mode in its solar mode.
Awesome - thanks! @@cmahar3