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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 13:24:27 GMT
Got the ASiair Pro out tonight for the first time. The images were saved in mono. I must have ticked the wrong box. Setup was esprit 80 on sw eq35m , zwo 183colour. The images looked fine on the ipad.I was happy with the live stacking. The polar align and plate solve worked very as did the goto. The Pro would not let me move on until it was accurately polar aligned. Once that was done,the goto was quite accurate. Here is a 30sec x 5 stack of eta carina.It was colour on the ipad . This will be a good relatively lightweight grab and go setup. cheers Paul
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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 20, 2020 13:45:57 GMT
Still looks good Paul. Sometimes Mono looks better, but this time it looks faint probably because it is a colour camera not a Mono camera.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2020 22:36:02 GMT
Thanks Ken.I am doing something wrong with the saving to disk. The live stacked image on the ipad had plenty of colour and looked ok ,but on the ipad, the image is small compared to a computer screen. Generally I wont be saving the images to disk anyway. It is all about live viewing out at the dark sky site and I wont be bothering about any post processing. Post processing involves taking the usb disk from the Pro, loading it onto my computer and post processing in whatever program I know anything about. For me that means Sharpcap followed by Astrotoaster and a little bit on Startools. I am not really interested in doing that.
The polar alignment demanded good precision in that I couldnt go to imaging until the ASiair was satified that I had accurately polar aligned. Normally with polar alignment, near enough is good enough for my purposes. I was impressed with the ease of plate solving and accuracy of the goto on the EQ35M mount. Normally with that mount ,I need to do a bit of manual centering but the APro took care of all that. It needed to do a couple of plate solving checks and readjust, but all that was done automatically. I manually adjusted the histogram but found just leaving it on auto did a better job than I could do anyway.
As I have said previously, The Asiair is for my grab and go . And I dont think that will change but I am impressed with its features. At home I still prefer my setup with the bigger scopes,bigger mounts and bigger screens and this is galaxy season. That means Rasa 8,imx 432 and a couple of big screens. Lets hope it doesnt take another 3 weeks before I get a clear night.
cheers Paul
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Post by howie1 on Apr 22, 2020 2:14:28 GMT
You can take screenshot on iPad to share what you are seeing Paul. There's a way for the iPads which have the Home button and another way for those without Home button.
Cheers Howie
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 5:24:51 GMT
Do you mean save a screen shot in preview mode ,Howie?
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Post by howie1 on Apr 22, 2020 7:10:16 GMT
No Paul ... whatever is on the iPad itself. Takes a screen shot of anything on the iPad display. On my iPad you press and hold the power button and tap the Home button then release the finger from the power button. You'll hear a camera "shutter" sound and it's taken a screenshot. It's placed the screenshot in the Gallery images on the iPad. Just open and Share to email or wherever and post it up on AVF. We'll see exactly like you saw out there in the dark doing your stacking on the iPad. But like I said some iPads don't have the Home button so if that's the case you'll have to google how to do it on your model.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 9:51:35 GMT
Thanks Howie, I will look into that.
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