Post by davy on Apr 2, 2021 18:18:53 GMT
I got the asi Pro a few months back but had been reading posts about it in the asiair Facebook group and to be honest, I was shitting myself to try it.
Some folk took to it like a duck to water,, others struggle.
Think what worried me was the fact it is a raspberry pi, ok one that's been tweaked, but the bother I had with the raspberry and astroberry was doing a voodoo dance in my head lol.
I got the zwo 120mm the other Day and got the basics set up via the laptop, Basically the focal tube required to get focus on the William zenithstar 61,
Today I plugged the eqmod cable from the heq5 into the asiair, and had both cameras plugged in,, the 178mc on the sw 50ed.
Started the aap and tablet,, the aap sensed the mount and I picked eqmod option.
This could not have been any easier,
Upped the speed of slew and the mount moves with no issues.
Main camera,, I still need to do a lot more playing around with it for AP side,, I could not find focus 😬
I found the video capture option and switched to it.
Still no image, waved hand in front of scope and screen dimmed.
Exposure and gain control found an turned way down to dark and brought up slow,, image started to appear on screen of my 10" android tablet,, tweak the focus and I'm a happy chappy tonight,,
Was a big step for me and chuffed,
The WiFi is an issue,,, no getting away from it and may need to get addressed at some stage but, can live with it during my testing stages
Some folk took to it like a duck to water,, others struggle.
Think what worried me was the fact it is a raspberry pi, ok one that's been tweaked, but the bother I had with the raspberry and astroberry was doing a voodoo dance in my head lol.
I got the zwo 120mm the other Day and got the basics set up via the laptop, Basically the focal tube required to get focus on the William zenithstar 61,
Today I plugged the eqmod cable from the heq5 into the asiair, and had both cameras plugged in,, the 178mc on the sw 50ed.
Started the aap and tablet,, the aap sensed the mount and I picked eqmod option.
This could not have been any easier,
Upped the speed of slew and the mount moves with no issues.
Main camera,, I still need to do a lot more playing around with it for AP side,, I could not find focus 😬
I found the video capture option and switched to it.
Still no image, waved hand in front of scope and screen dimmed.
Exposure and gain control found an turned way down to dark and brought up slow,, image started to appear on screen of my 10" android tablet,, tweak the focus and I'm a happy chappy tonight,,
Was a big step for me and chuffed,
The WiFi is an issue,,, no getting away from it and may need to get addressed at some stage but, can live with it during my testing stages