![]() ![]() ![]() You can use software metrics to help you focus as well as program in a series of long exposures and pauses between them. The price to be paid for this, however, is additional complexity, powering a laptop computer at the scope at a dark-sky remote observing location, dealing with USB connection issues, and cable routing.Ĭamera control software will allow almost complete control of the camera while you sit at the laptop computer. Dithering is changing the scope pointing a small amount between exposures to help deal with noise and hot pixels in the images. Once you get a little more advanced, using a laptop at the scope can make pointing and camera control a little bit easier and also allow more advanced techniques such autoguiding, and dithering. ![]() I didn't even have a Go To mount, I just used setting circles and star charts. I shot without a computer at the telescope for 20 years back in the days of film before digital cameras. You can focus with Live View, and then take test exposures to determine the correct exposure and framing of the object you want to shoot. When you first start out it is much easier to skip the computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.You don't really need a computer and software at the telescope to shoot astrophotos. Whom “computer” is not our first language. Possible, keep your answers simple enough or detailed enough for those of us to Is this possible with either of the above two Through whatever ASCOM connection I end up with. Would like to do plate solving using Astro-Tortilla through Backyard EOS On top of this, I use Backyard EOS to control my camera and Is there a way to keep the hand controlįunctional and still have PHD2 communicate with my mount through this cable? If this method will work, should I remove theĬable from the Starshoot Autoguider to the Auto-Guide jack on my mount? The NexRemote software which makes the hand controller non-functional. Is this now an ASCOM connection? Same question about the Aux Mount selection The controller then goes to the Hand Control jack in the mount. If the above cable is only for ST4 connections, I have theĬonnector to go from a USB out of my laptop to an RS232 to the jack thatĬonnects at the bottom of my hand controller. Telescope chooser, Generic hub, Pipe diagnostic tool, POTH hub, Simulator or Supposed to “Use ASCOM for the PHD2 ‘Aux Mount’ connection”. Does this make this an ASCOM connection? In the equipment setup section of PHD2 I’m I have loaded the ASCOM drivers on my laptop. I have a Celestron CGEM DX, and am using an Orion Starshootįrom the autoguider to the Auto-Guide jack on my mount is an ST4 connection(Im not sure). ![]()
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