Celestron NEXSTAR Solar Tracking Settings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2017
- This video is about selecting the settings to tack the sun on a Celestron NEXSTAR. With the right setting you will be able to photograph the sun during the eclipse.
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Your video is still helping 6 years later! Thank you!
Awesome tutorial, I couldn't find anything else online that explains how to enable solar tracking.
2024 and this saved my toosh. Thank you!
Absolutely awesome! Thanks for making this video. Exactly what I was looking for. Very well explained and easy to follow.
need more videos like yours out there champ! straight forward, to the point, little bit of extra information / personal experience & easy to follow! job well done hermano!
Your video made are day! Now, we're all set for tomorrow's total solar eclipse. Thanks so much!!!
Well done, Ernesto. Clear and precise directions. My Astronomy class enjoyed our views of our nearest nuclear powered orb.
Gracias Ernesto. I went from one end of the internet to the other until found your post. Made my eclipse experience all the better. Gracias! Mike From Montréal.
Thank you for this. Helpful and inspiring.
Very helpful. I couldn’t find the sun setting and I knew it was hidden from the menu.
After a lot of searching your video was the only thing that helped me with solar tracking. Thank you!
You are a" Rock Star" Ernesto, many thanks and clear skies to you !
Thank you Ernesto. The tracking part I couldn't find before this. Much appreciated.
Sooo helpful!! Thank you so much Ernesto you're the best!
Thank you so much! We are close to the next Mercury transition and your video very helpful.
Thanks for posting. I'm searching how to set up the SkyPortal setup to track as well. This gives me a clue to what I might have to do as well.
Thanks Ernesto, work perfect ! great for traking mercury transit on 11 november
Thanks Ernesto, this was a big help!
You’re a legend! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Excellent video. Thank you for posting.
A Big Thank You from Seattle!😎🤟
Thanks! I have been struggling trying to figure this one out.
I'm glad it was easy! Only about 300 steps through confusing menus!
100% great, someone pointed me to this, many thanks answers my question perfectly
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I could never figure it out!!
Great video Ernesto, muchas gracias !
Your support will be highly appreciated. Why I'm getting this message? "Press BACK and align again. The positions of the alignment objects did not match the database."
Thanks for the help and video! I tracked the sun for the first time today! I tried to get my SvBONY 305 camera on it and focused for some photos but the focus through the eyepiece and camera are way different, so I didn’t get any before the sun set
Much help. Using for 2023 annular ring of fire eclipse. Thank You much!
One question Steven, what was the initial position of the telescope before following the alignment process? I always get this message "Align Failed- The positions of the alignment objects did not match the database." Your help will be highly appreciated.
A great help! I’d looked everywhere.Thanks.
Excellent video.
Thank you this really helped..
This was great! Thanks!
It worked! Thank you.
thank you... clear and simple ..
Thanks - it really helped.
Ernesto, thank you so much! thus us exactly what I needed! But why Celestron doesn't already have the Sun in the menu of the solar system alignment options, by default, is a great mystery to me.
Still valid in 2020. Thanks a lot!!!!
Still valid, and the only one to be found - in 2023!
My guess is this works very well as long as the mount is perfectly level.
Excellent explanation.
Any short cuts for moon tracking with out star aligned like day time moon
Thank you
Hi,
Thanks a lot!
Yours
Oliver from Germany
I'll be your first comment, good job, I too will be heading to see the eclipse, and I will be taking a time lapse of this event. Good luck and let's hope for clear skies.
Great thanks
Thank you! Is this necessary every time you have a new viewing session? Same set up with planets?
Great video I could not find the setting to allow the sun.
Wow that's a lot of clicks.. hopefully they make this feature easier but thank you so much
Do you have to do this every time or will it remember your selection the next time you use the scope?
will this setting will follow the sun or any target?
Does nexstar 8se have the tracking system?
Liked your video. But, first steps first. How did you set up the scope in the first place? Leveling, pointing true north? Because your scope was not leveled at the beginning of the video. . I am looking for a solution to setting up tracking without using any stars. This video helps since I could start with the sun, hibernaye the scope and restart at sundown to tr track the planets rising in the east. Roof over my site prevents using the stars.
That is the same question I have....how the scope should be positioned before the alligment.
@@aapablaz I don't think the scope positioning matters before the alignment. You just need to follow the steps shown in the video. By finding the sun initially, the mount will know how to track it by accounting for the Earth's rotation etc.
@@tannerman46 I have never made it work. What could be wrong? The message I get is "Align Failed- The positions of the alignment objects did not match the database."
It just aligns it but it doesn’t track how do I fix this?
Hi - instead of using Time, Date, Place, can you key in the Lat/Long?
Thank you! This was very informative!
The menu system of the StarSense is different from the NexStar. I finally found the Sun, but when I hit Enter, the telescope moved away from the Sun. I found the Dun again, and pressed Align - but it did not track it. Tracking is under Menu--> Telescope --> Tracking Rate + Menu --> Telescope --> Tracking --> Solar....but it still did not track the Sun. Not sure where to go from here.....Location has been entered correctly. Time, Date and UTC correction is also correct. ..... ??
Never Mind. I found the menu. Align --> Solar System Align -->Time/Date/Zone/DST -->Sun (coarse Alignment) Enter --> Fine Alignment --> Align. Done.
@@RDaleMercer Dale, thanks for posting your resolution to your problem. I'm approaching Solar Tracking with a StarSense as well, and had wondered whether the process differed from that using the NexStar+ Hand Controller. Very helpful!
I have yet to get my scope my scope of actively follow stars. You have to keep telling it to go to the star once the earth moves out of its view. I'm doing astrophotography and am finding out this mount type isnt meant for this.
How the hell did you remember all that?
I'm going to smash my go to mount
I've followed your directions and when I go to solar system align the piece of shot mount is stuck on Jupiter. When I hit the back button and then press the solar system align button and choose sun a dialog comes up saying my mount is not aligned.
Great video.