Tutorial: Solar Imaging with DWARF II and AstroSurface - Rooster Inn Observatory - 25 May 2023

The Rooster Inn Observatory resides in Bortle 4 country in Upstate New York, and provides LIVE video streaming of astrophotography of sun and moon, stars and planets, galaxies and nebulae, comets and satellites. Three telescopes make up the observatory:
The equipment includes:
1- Celestron Edge HD 11-inch Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope (SCT) on a CGX equatorial mount, with a ZWO ASI183MC camera for planets;
2- Vaonis Stellina Telescope for Deep Space Objects (DSO);
3- Lunt LS50T H-alpha solar telescope, B400 blocking filter, Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount, ZWO ASI120MC-S camera;
4- Canon EOS 50D with 250mm lens on NexStar 8SE mount for lazy imaging;
5- Canon EOS Rebel SL3 with Rokinon 650-1300mm lens,
6- DWARF LAB DWARF II Smart Telescope,
7- Skycam 2.1mm fisheye lens on ZWO ASI120MM-mini.
German Shepherd+ Primadonna and Belgian Malinois Belladonna guard the Rooster Inn and supply voice-overs.
The theme music at the start and end of videos was composed and performed by the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble under the direction of James T. Spencer.
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[@grahambutler5025]

One of the most informative Dwarf 2 tutorials I’ve seen. Thank you 😊

[@grahambutler5025]

Now I need to watch the rest. 😁

[@PompeyObservatory]

You are welcome. I hope you enjoy the others as well.

[@lesrobot01]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Used it, last night, for my first ever attempt at post processing. REALLY helped me through the process and came up with what I think was a much better image of the sun than the pic I took using Photo Mode. Next will be using your vid on post processing for the Moon.

[@PompeyObservatory]

Glad it helped!

[@ferdinandoesposito8088]

Thank you for this tutorial.

[@PompeyObservatory]

You are welcome. I hope you found it useful.

[@ferdinandoesposito8088]

@@PompeyObservatory Very much so. I recently got a Dwarf2. It's an interesting tool, and definitely not as simple to use as I expected it to be. Your series on Dwarf2 helps a lot!

[@PompeyObservatory]

👍

[@sergiobahr5427]

Mine tracks SDOs perfectly, but seems to hate the sun and it quickly moves in the screen, it´s good the video is short!

[@PompeyObservatory]

I take usually 30-second videos of sun, moon, and planets for stacking. Given the brightness of the targets, 30 seconds at 30 frames per second give 900 frames.

[@johndoiron9615]

Cool! I didn't know there was solar tracking.

[@PompeyObservatory]

Solar tracking is a useful feature indeed.

[@grahambutler5025]

Question: What device are you using to control the scope?
You seem to be using a cursor and have given yourself a lot of screen space to work with - much more than with a phone.

[@PompeyObservatory]

I use a Lenovo M8 tablet (it fits nicely inside the DWARF bag) to control the Dwarf. I put the tablet in debug mode, and I run scrcpy on my laptop so I can display the tablet screen on a 39-inch monitor and control it with a mouse and keyboard.

[@gg80108]

Can't view easily on tablet!

[@PompeyObservatory]

I display my tablet output on a 39-inch screen using scrcpy