This is fantastic, and should greatly help new remote users! and...less forum questions, and less tickets :) Looking forward to setting up the advance sequencer video, recommended pluggins, etc.
1. "Hey everybody" is a great way to start a video. 2. Knowing you're in Texas(?) and seeing you in jeans and a hoodie is perplexing. How cold does it get there? lol
I hope you are flexible with those of us who want something other than a live video feed of our work being fed through Google servers. As a programmer, I'm well aware of what's going on. Setting up VPN access on a Mac and remoting into anything on your network after connecting is easy, stable, reliable, and secure. It's how I work remotely at my day job.
A useful suggestion is the file type (for those that use Pixinsight). Change it to XSIF and you can use a compression algorithm to save disc space too if required :)
Up to 25:53 .. So... You're telling me you don't need to do your flats, darks, and biases directly before or after each lights image run? You can get a set for the month and reuse them?
@ 🤯 first time I’ve come across this information. Every other video I’ve watched they say to do it before or after in the same conditions. This is good to know! 🙂esp in MI where it’s -10. I don’t want to have to fool around outside for long haha.
@@sonicsound84 you can reuse them for months when using a cooled camera where you have control over the sensor temperature. It's another story with uncooled cameras like regular dslrs - that's where you want to take darks/bias frames for each night Modern cmos cameras like the imx571 in a ZWO2600 don't even need darks anymore, bias frames and flats are enough. Of course you can test this yourself and see whether you actually need Darks or not by stacking with and without and analysing the resulting images :) Ps: even with my cheap Canon D2000 darks are redundant and actually make my images more noisy without benefits :p
i tried to ask this question on astrobin and no one bothered to answer it even though the discussion was chrome RDP-but asking here-how are you patient with chrome's RDP speed overall? I tried it and it's just slow. resolution setting sucks and is just kind of off putting for me to not even bother to use it. I will say it's a really good utility but with the way it behaves in speed and resolution-am thinking of vpn options that would certainly be fast. haven't worked out all the steps on that but it'd be nice. then there's paid RDP options too-may think about that (ofc price will get you)..but just curious on your overall experience since you recommend it so much.
So I run an old eagle 3 and use windows RDP, do you guys run into much trouble with RDP? It has been very stable for me, even wirelessly. Would you recommend changing over to chrome either way, even with basically an Intel NUC?
RDP requires you to use a VPN, which is fine, but you can just use chrome remote and not deal with any extra complexity. It is just the most stable, simple solution
@@plumberman19 It's really not that complicated to set up. I'm using ZeroTier and my two remote PCs, two Digital Loggers, home computer, and home NAS are all connected on the same VPN. I use Windows RDP to connect to the remote systems daily, but I also have Chrome remote and another application I could use to connect if needed because backup solutions FTW!
Question - I'm planning on sending a 6" newtonian (CarbonStar 150). Do you think I need anything to protect from dew and do you think a flip flat is worth it? I'm in FL and our humidity is wild, but I've also heard Newtonians fair well against dew.
@, thanks. Without having to worry about dew protection, it should be easy to get the flip flat on it. Once I learn NINA and get it running in my backyard from inside I’ll be reserving a pier. I appreciate the response!
Bray, if we are to use an ASIAIR or even in a PC but if we don’t have a flat cover like the Pegasus or wanderastro, what is the best way to move forward in a remote observatory? Don’t use flats?, take synthetic flats?, don’t use flats?, what is recommended or OSC and or narrowband imaging
Sorry maybe I didn't explain myself better, what I meant was other than renting a space if you ever considered to rent a whole telescope system at your place too, in order to not sending the telescopes from home @astrofalls
7:24: You should never exposed a server IP no matter how secure you think things are. There will be people trying to take it down, it is not a matter of if but when. It is too late, but take this video down, edit and post it again.
@@adamg-502this. You could open up a new server with a new ip and after a few minutes later there are already attempts to access the server :p But anyways, it's always bad if you expose it, because then people actually know what's behind the server and target it specifically
This is fantastic, and should greatly help new remote users! and...less forum questions, and less tickets :) Looking forward to setting up the advance sequencer video, recommended pluggins, etc.
Fray Balls has returned
Fray balls has always been
Thank you so much for doing this. I have learned a lot and you paced the training very well.🎉
This is a much-needed video, indeed. I use Google Remote Desktop and Anydesk as backups in case I can't log in via Google. Thank you, Bray!
1. "Hey everybody" is a great way to start a video. 2. Knowing you're in Texas(?) and seeing you in jeans and a hoodie is perplexing. How cold does it get there? lol
This is fantastic. We get 9 months of cloud here so this is a great alternative!
19:10 Recommend downloading the Offline Sky Map cache and storing it locally. It's much faster, doesn't have to perform a download each time.
Good job Bray!
I hope you are flexible with those of us who want something other than a live video feed of our work being fed through Google servers. As a programmer, I'm well aware of what's going on. Setting up VPN access on a Mac and remoting into anything on your network after connecting is easy, stable, reliable, and secure. It's how I work remotely at my day job.
A useful suggestion is the file type (for those that use Pixinsight). Change it to XSIF and you can use a compression algorithm to save disc space too if required :)
To restart the PC/ASIAir you suggest using an ethernet connected power supply.
How do you manage this ?
The KASA wifi power strip works great.
How is polar alignment handled on a remote telescope? Is it needed if the mount is pointed appropriately and autoguiding is used?
Staff will polar align it during system install. If you notice it's out of alignment in the future, you can open a ticket to have it realigned.
Would be interested to hear how you're dithering with triple RASA setup without blurring subframes.
I am not dithering 😂
@@astrofalls That explains it. With 3 scopes you should not have walking noise when you integrate all cameras together.
Yes!! I’ve been waiting for this part 2. With the ASIAir+, do you just need the customer to include an Ethernet cable with their gear to you?
Nah we supply the ethernet!
Up to 25:53 .. So... You're telling me you don't need to do your flats, darks, and biases directly before or after each lights image run? You can get a set for the month and reuse them?
Correct, the may be reused for multiple months
@ 🤯 first time I’ve come across this information. Every other video I’ve watched they say to do it before or after in the same conditions. This is good to know! 🙂esp in MI where it’s -10. I don’t want to have to fool around outside for long haha.
@@sonicsound84 you can reuse them for months when using a cooled camera where you have control over the sensor temperature.
It's another story with uncooled cameras like regular dslrs - that's where you want to take darks/bias frames for each night
Modern cmos cameras like the imx571 in a ZWO2600 don't even need darks anymore, bias frames and flats are enough.
Of course you can test this yourself and see whether you actually need Darks or not by stacking with and without and analysing the resulting images :)
Ps: even with my cheap Canon D2000 darks are redundant and actually make my images more noisy without benefits :p
@@crateer ahhhhh ok. Thanks for the info! Learning something new every few hours at the moment lol. 🙂
i tried to ask this question on astrobin and no one bothered to answer it even though the discussion was chrome RDP-but asking here-how are you patient with chrome's RDP speed overall? I tried it and it's just slow. resolution setting sucks and is just kind of off putting for me to not even bother to use it. I will say it's a really good utility but with the way it behaves in speed and resolution-am thinking of vpn options that would certainly be fast. haven't worked out all the steps on that but it'd be nice. then there's paid RDP options too-may think about that (ofc price will get you)..but just curious on your overall experience since you recommend it so much.
can you open multiple rig in the pc remote at the same time? or one at a time?
Yes you can do many at once
So I run an old eagle 3 and use windows RDP, do you guys run into much trouble with RDP? It has been very stable for me, even wirelessly. Would you recommend changing over to chrome either way, even with basically an Intel NUC?
RDP requires you to use a VPN, which is fine, but you can just use chrome remote and not deal with any extra complexity. It is just the most stable, simple solution
@ I didn't know that, I'm guessing since the eagle is on my local network vs actually being remote, I've never dealt with a vpn, makes sense, thanks.
@@plumberman19 It's really not that complicated to set up. I'm using ZeroTier and my two remote PCs, two Digital Loggers, home computer, and home NAS are all connected on the same VPN. I use Windows RDP to connect to the remote systems daily, but I also have Chrome remote and another application I could use to connect if needed because backup solutions FTW!
Thank you for sharing such helpful information! Do you still have your budget editing pc?
Yes I still use the same one!
Question - I'm planning on sending a 6" newtonian (CarbonStar 150). Do you think I need anything to protect from dew and do you think a flip flat is worth it? I'm in FL and our humidity is wild, but I've also heard Newtonians fair well against dew.
Dew wont be a issue on the newt! flip flats are nice to have, but aren't strictly needed
@, thanks. Without having to worry about dew protection, it should be easy to get the flip flat on it. Once I learn NINA and get it running in my backyard from inside I’ll be reserving a pier. I appreciate the response!
My observatory isn't even remote, and chrome remote desktop is a must have.
Bray, if we are to use an ASIAIR or even in a PC but if we don’t have a flat cover like the Pegasus or wanderastro, what is the best way to move forward in a remote observatory? Don’t use flats?, take synthetic flats?, don’t use flats?, what is recommended or OSC and or narrowband imaging
I'm not Bray but he'll recommend sky flats😉
sky flats!
Hi did you ever consider to go international? Like people from outside US rent a system at your place. I'm from italy and I would do it.
Yes we have plenty of telescopes from outside the country!
Sorry maybe I didn't explain myself better, what I meant was other than renting a space if you ever considered to rent a whole telescope system at your place too, in order to not sending the telescopes from home @astrofalls
Where can i subscribe to this Frey Balls guy? He seems to know a thing or two about this.
About dang time.
7:24: You should never exposed a server IP no matter how secure you think things are.
There will be people trying to take it down, it is not a matter of if but when.
It is too late, but take this video down, edit and post it again.
If an IP address exists on the internet, people are already poking at it, regardless of if the IP is in a video like this or not.
blurred it out, thx for letting us know!
@@adamg-502this.
You could open up a new server with a new ip and after a few minutes later there are already attempts to access the server :p
But anyways, it's always bad if you expose it, because then people actually know what's behind the server and target it specifically