Thanks a lot for the video, I just got a telescope but I'm a fan of robotics so I immediately wondered if there is some controller implementation on Raspberry, your video opened a window to a whole world of cool stuff to learn and do!
Congrats on your telescope! And I'm glad this video is helpful. My Raspberry Pi 5 is getting here in a couple of days and I'm planning on starting a whole series on Astroberry in 2024. I'm going to start from the beginning and also deep dive into very specific parts of Astroberry. I've learned a TON since I made this video so if you have any questions, feel free to ask :) Which kind of scope did you get? Clear skies!
@@Naztronomy I'll be looking forward to your new series on Astroberry, I got a Bresser Pollux 150x1400 as advanced Christmas gift from my family :) I'm completely newbie to telescopes but I can already tell I love it!
@@josepablolopezaguado6191 That scope should be good for planets with that focal length! And some narrow field of view Deep sky objects. Hope it treats you well! Happy New Year 🎉🥳
Awesome tutorial, I've been trying to get up to speed with Astroberry for a while and you solved a few persistent issues I've had. I'm even working with the same mount and a Canon DSLR, so it was good to see this setup can work with my gear. I wonder if you (or anyone else on here) have dealt with the last remaining issue I've had, which is that I can connect my Canon DSLR to the RPi and recognize it in Ekos, but I can't get it to take exposures. I can open the camera tab and get a live view, but whenever I try to do a preview exposure or a list of exposures, the exposure is aborted and I get a message in the INDI device manager that says "Failed to connect to serial port /dev/ttyUSB0" or whatever port is set in the device manager. I'm not well-versed in Linux so my attempts to understand documentation and forum posts have mostly sent me in circles.
Glad this video was helpful! I think the preview exposure functionality is finicky for DSLRs. I vaguely remember running into a similar error so if I need to do a test exposure, I use a regular capture instead of trying to do a preview. And for framing, I use the 'loop" functionality which is an option right next to the live view button. If I'm not understanding what you are experiencing, let me know. I've been on solar eclipse mode for t he last 5 months or so and haven't looked at Ekos recently but I can open it up and take a look. You may have to wait until the third week of April when I have some more time after the eclipse. In the meantime, feel free to join the discord server if you use discord, I think we have a couple of other Ekos users in the community who may have an input. Clear skies!
Just got into astrophotography... or trying to... Anyways thank you so much for this video. I can now pull my raspberry pi out of the closet and dust it off and put it to some good use! This is amazing!
I don't know if you have, but I'd be interested in more videos after using Astroberry for a while. This is a great way to minimize coordination with all your gear.
@@linkage8700 I have a few more in the pipeline that I need to edit and upload like plate solving and auto guiding. Definitely a great way to minimize manual work. If I had a permanent set up, I would be imaging every night!
Hey Naz, was doing a sudo apt-get update a few days ago and found a lot of new changes, especially to polar alignment. It has a new method using plate solving and it is slick. I also used with my dslr and 900mm refractor. Thought Id let you know CS
@@stevehauser7486 Thanks for the updates, Steve! I appreciate it! The stability issue is good to know. I am probably not going to get to use my full setup again until late October due to travel plans so hopefully they have everything figured out by the time I return 😉 Good luck with your set up and thanks again for keeping me updated!
Thanks 😊 I learned a lot more about Astroberry since I made this video so I'm hoping to restart the process from scratch and record everything I've learned.
Fantastic tutorial Nazmus! You have just triggered on me to try it out. I have a question regarding the EKOS. Is it possible to do EAA with it (Live view)?
Thank you! And for EAA if you want to live stack, you can't with EKOS. You can use live view for previewing and framing. For live stacking, you can use EKOS to take individual images and then use something like SharpCap or Siril to do live stacking. Live view in EKOS isn't anything impressive tbh. And Astroberry itself is now unsupported. The creator kind of abandoned the project. I'm hoping to redo the series with Stellermate instead and also NINA on Windows. Let me know if you have any specific questions. I know EAA has a pretty broad reach. Best of luck with your imaging 😊
@@Naztronomy Darn! So Astroberry is an abandoned project now? What a pity, i think it fits perfectly my needs. 😓 I am a Mac user and the Astroberry solution would be great for me (Raspberry 4 owner). I still havent found a EAA capturing software for Mac that fits 100% my needs (although i believe that Siril has Mac version, i have to check that path). I can always install Parallels with Windows but I was looking for some alternatives such as Astroberry. Any advice is welcome! Thanks again!
@@juanma2001 Astroberry is still available and it'll work on your RPi 4. I still use it as my backup system. The original author abandoned it because RPi 5 is 64-bit and he would have to redo the whole OS from scratch so it wasn't worth it. You can still run the current version of Astroberry as-is, just don't expect any updates. Another option you have is to download EKOS, INDI, and all the drivers manually and run it all yourself. You can also get stellarmate but it's not free sadly. There is a Mac version for Siril. And same with Ekos so you can download Ekos and run that directly. It'll be less resource intensive than using Parallels with Windows. Take images with Ekos and then use Siril to live stack.
Thanks, Fernando 😊 You can use astroberry to just control your camera, it can act like a really advanced intervalometer. If your mount doesn't track, you'd need to take short exposures and stack those. This set up works best if you have a camera and a computerized mount that you can control with astroberry because you can completely automate your capture process. Let me know if you have any more questions. Thanks for watching 🙂
Hey! Which issue with preview are you referring to? Been a while since I did this video and I just skimmed through it and couldn't find if I mentioned that somewhere.
Hi Naz, good tutorial, you have done your homework well. Ive used astroberry since before covid...lol I have had good luck with it, though Ive had connection issues. I now just use ethernet and it just works. I use the hotspot to polar align at the mount. Good luck, and btw the kstars guider is fantastic, just works Clear skies, and cheers
Thank you, Steve 😊 I also switched to Ethernet a while ago. I started on this video earlier in the year but took me 6+ months to finish. WiFi in my backyard has been horrendous and a long ethernet cable was faster and cheaper than upgrading my router. I agree that the guider is amazing! I started using that back in March and I'm working on that video now (will probably take me another 6 months to complete 😅). I've not yet successfully done a polar alignment with Ekos/Kstars but I suspect it's because I was using a DSLR. Ekos wouldn't do the exposure correctly. I've since gotten myself a dedicated astro cam so I need to retry polar alignment at some point. We don't get enough clear skies for me to dedicate time for testing 😞 I've been using my iOptron iPolar for a while so I've been sticking with it since I can get polar aligned before I even attach the telescope to the mount. Clear skies!
I use my orion magnificant mini ssag guide setup to polar align. Using your sct is just to narrow fov to polar align. It took me a while to figure that out too. I too use a c6 sct main imaginer and resentl just got a 90mm 500 f5.5 refractor Keep at it your doing 👍
@@stevehauser7486 That's good to know! I tested polar aligning with my 100mm f/6 refractor, Ekos just wouldn't trigger the shutter on my camera. It was very strange. I'll test t his using my 60mm refractor and OSC, that should work a bit better :) I'll keep you posted. Your new refractor sounds a mazing! Hope you have fun with it! Clear skies!
You can use the camera for astrophotography but it's probably far from ideal because it wasn't designed for it. But check out this article, it seems to be great for lunar and some planetary: astronomynow.com/2022/02/25/raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera/ I'm sure you can find others who use it for DSO and it would be fun to try but it may make getting good images an uphill battle.
Try this to correct your GPS home location.... might not be nerd cool working from a gui instead of cli Open KStars first.. You can either hit "Ctrl+G" and edit your location data or from the menu bar "Settings/Geographic" and edit there...
Excellent video. For some reason the Astroberry didn't click with me (I did not realize there was a bunch of stuff to setup on the left side tab.) I just got in my ASI 533 MC camera as I'm tying this and will kill two birds with one stone tonight--to try this again and to learn my camera. Thank you for doing this.
Thanks a lot for the video, I just got a telescope but I'm a fan of robotics so I immediately wondered if there is some controller implementation on Raspberry, your video opened a window to a whole world of cool stuff to learn and do!
Congrats on your telescope! And I'm glad this video is helpful. My Raspberry Pi 5 is getting here in a couple of days and I'm planning on starting a whole series on Astroberry in 2024. I'm going to start from the beginning and also deep dive into very specific parts of Astroberry. I've learned a TON since I made this video so if you have any questions, feel free to ask :)
Which kind of scope did you get? Clear skies!
@@Naztronomy I'll be looking forward to your new series on Astroberry, I got a Bresser Pollux 150x1400 as advanced Christmas gift from my family :) I'm completely newbie to telescopes but I can already tell I love it!
@@josepablolopezaguado6191 That scope should be good for planets with that focal length! And some narrow field of view Deep sky objects. Hope it treats you well! Happy New Year 🎉🥳
Awesome tutorial, I've been trying to get up to speed with Astroberry for a while and you solved a few persistent issues I've had. I'm even working with the same mount and a Canon DSLR, so it was good to see this setup can work with my gear.
I wonder if you (or anyone else on here) have dealt with the last remaining issue I've had, which is that I can connect my Canon DSLR to the RPi and recognize it in Ekos, but I can't get it to take exposures. I can open the camera tab and get a live view, but whenever I try to do a preview exposure or a list of exposures, the exposure is aborted and I get a message in the INDI device manager that says "Failed to connect to serial port /dev/ttyUSB0" or whatever port is set in the device manager. I'm not well-versed in Linux so my attempts to understand documentation and forum posts have mostly sent me in circles.
Glad this video was helpful!
I think the preview exposure functionality is finicky for DSLRs. I vaguely remember running into a similar error so if I need to do a test exposure, I use a regular capture instead of trying to do a preview. And for framing, I use the 'loop" functionality which is an option right next to the live view button.
If I'm not understanding what you are experiencing, let me know. I've been on solar eclipse mode for t he last 5 months or so and haven't looked at Ekos recently but I can open it up and take a look. You may have to wait until the third week of April when I have some more time after the eclipse. In the meantime, feel free to join the discord server if you use discord, I think we have a couple of other Ekos users in the community who may have an input.
Clear skies!
@@Naztronomy Thanks for your kind reply! I'll have to check out the discord.
Just got into astrophotography... or trying to... Anyways thank you so much for this video. I can now pull my raspberry pi out of the closet and dust it off and put it to some good use! This is amazing!
I don't know if you have, but I'd be interested in more videos after using Astroberry for a while. This is a great way to minimize coordination with all your gear.
Thanks! Hope you have fun with it!
@@linkage8700 I have a few more in the pipeline that I need to edit and upload like plate solving and auto guiding. Definitely a great way to minimize manual work. If I had a permanent set up, I would be imaging every night!
Hey Naz, was doing a sudo apt-get update a few days ago and found a lot of new changes, especially to polar alignment. It has a new method using plate solving and it is slick. I also used with my dslr and 900mm refractor. Thought Id let you know
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Hey Naz, hold off on the update, it seems this the new version 2.05, but found it is unstable, camer drivers are flakey so Ive reverted back to.04
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@@stevehauser7486 Thanks for the updates, Steve! I appreciate it!
The stability issue is good to know. I am probably not going to get to use my full setup again until late October due to travel plans so hopefully they have everything figured out by the time I return 😉
Good luck with your set up and thanks again for keeping me updated!
BEST astroberry vid ever!!!!!
Thanks 😊 I learned a lot more about Astroberry since I made this video so I'm hoping to restart the process from scratch and record everything I've learned.
Have an 8 gig pi4 build going now, thanks for this vid Naz !
Awesome! Best of luck and I hope you have a lot of fun with it! Let me know if you have any questions.
thanks for your tutorial! I will try this with my raspberry pi, it seems awsome.
Awesome! Best of luck with the project and let me know if you have any questions!
Fantastic tutorial Nazmus! You have just triggered on me to try it out. I have a question regarding the EKOS. Is it possible to do EAA with it (Live view)?
Thank you!
And for EAA if you want to live stack, you can't with EKOS. You can use live view for previewing and framing. For live stacking, you can use EKOS to take individual images and then use something like SharpCap or Siril to do live stacking.
Live view in EKOS isn't anything impressive tbh.
And Astroberry itself is now unsupported. The creator kind of abandoned the project. I'm hoping to redo the series with Stellermate instead and also NINA on Windows. Let me know if you have any specific questions. I know EAA has a pretty broad reach.
Best of luck with your imaging 😊
@@Naztronomy Darn! So Astroberry is an abandoned project now? What a pity, i think it fits perfectly my needs. 😓 I am a Mac user and the Astroberry solution would be great for me (Raspberry 4 owner). I still havent found a EAA capturing software for Mac that fits 100% my needs (although i believe that Siril has Mac version, i have to check that path). I can always install Parallels with Windows but I was looking for some alternatives such as Astroberry. Any advice is welcome! Thanks again!
@@juanma2001 Astroberry is still available and it'll work on your RPi 4. I still use it as my backup system.
The original author abandoned it because RPi 5 is 64-bit and he would have to redo the whole OS from scratch so it wasn't worth it. You can still run the current version of Astroberry as-is, just don't expect any updates.
Another option you have is to download EKOS, INDI, and all the drivers manually and run it all yourself. You can also get stellarmate but it's not free sadly.
There is a Mac version for Siril. And same with Ekos so you can download Ekos and run that directly. It'll be less resource intensive than using Parallels with Windows. Take images with Ekos and then use Siril to live stack.
Great video, Naz.
Thank you, Larry 😊
good explanation about astroberry!
thank you
is it possible to use astroberry with eq3 without motor ?
Thanks, Fernando 😊
You can use astroberry to just control your camera, it can act like a really advanced intervalometer. If your mount doesn't track, you'd need to take short exposures and stack those.
This set up works best if you have a camera and a computerized mount that you can control with astroberry because you can completely automate your capture process.
Let me know if you have any more questions. Thanks for watching 🙂
Hi man. How did you manage the solve Canon RAW file (CR3) issue with preview. It is giving error at my side.
Hey! Which issue with preview are you referring to? Been a while since I did this video and I just skimmed through it and couldn't find if I mentioned that somewhere.
Hi Naz, good tutorial, you have done your homework well. Ive used astroberry since before covid...lol I have had good luck with it, though Ive had connection issues. I now just use ethernet and it just works. I use the hotspot to polar align at the mount. Good luck, and btw the kstars guider is fantastic, just works
Clear skies, and cheers
Thank you, Steve 😊
I also switched to Ethernet a while ago. I started on this video earlier in the year but took me 6+ months to finish. WiFi in my backyard has been horrendous and a long ethernet cable was faster and cheaper than upgrading my router.
I agree that the guider is amazing! I started using that back in March and I'm working on that video now (will probably take me another 6 months to complete 😅).
I've not yet successfully done a polar alignment with Ekos/Kstars but I suspect it's because I was using a DSLR. Ekos wouldn't do the exposure correctly. I've since gotten myself a dedicated astro cam so I need to retry polar alignment at some point. We don't get enough clear skies for me to dedicate time for testing 😞
I've been using my iOptron iPolar for a while so I've been sticking with it since I can get polar aligned before I even attach the telescope to the mount.
Clear skies!
I use my orion magnificant mini ssag guide setup to polar align. Using your sct is just to narrow fov to polar align. It took me a while to figure that out too. I too use a c6 sct main imaginer and resentl just got a 90mm 500 f5.5 refractor
Keep at it your doing 👍
@@stevehauser7486 That's good to know! I tested polar aligning with my 100mm f/6 refractor, Ekos just wouldn't trigger the shutter on my camera. It was very strange. I'll test t his using my 60mm refractor and OSC, that should work a bit better :) I'll keep you posted.
Your new refractor sounds a mazing! Hope you have fun with it!
Clear skies!
Very informative. 👍🏼
Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions.
I know this might sound crazy, but do you know anyone using the PI HQ camera for DSO imaging? I was going to experiment with it.
You can use the camera for astrophotography but it's probably far from ideal because it wasn't designed for it. But check out this article, it seems to be great for lunar and some planetary: astronomynow.com/2022/02/25/raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera/
I'm sure you can find others who use it for DSO and it would be fun to try but it may make getting good images an uphill battle.
Try this to correct your GPS home location.... might not be nerd cool working from a gui instead of cli
Open KStars first..
You can either hit "Ctrl+G" and edit your location data or from the menu bar "Settings/Geographic" and edit there...
Thanks! I should have gone over that piece because it's a good way to get around using GPSD.
Also, using the GUI is just as cool as the CLI!
Excellent video. For some reason the Astroberry didn't click with me (I did not realize there was a bunch of stuff to setup on the left side tab.) I just got in my ASI 533 MC camera as I'm tying this and will kill two birds with one stone tonight--to try this again and to learn my camera. Thank you for doing this.
Awesome! I got a 533mc as well since I made this video and have been using it with astroberry. Works really well.
Have fun with your set up!
Brilliant
Thank you 😃