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Testing out camera gear in the wilderness of the world.
Ember Sky Media is all amount passion in pushing what cameras and lens technology can do.
Astrophotography, Infrared and UV as well as Night vision, if its pushing limits I want to show you how you can get these results as well.
I do have some choice Affiliates if you are looking for new gear and want to support the channel (funds equipment so I can do various reviews and comparisons).
Ontario Telescope and Accessories: bit.ly/3eIIz4s
Highpoint Scientific: bit.ly/3uIK8oQ
Oceanside Photo and Telescope: bit.ly/30PjQmT
Feel free to contact me via the email below for collaboration or sponsorship opportunities.
PS. I have links in my video descriptions, often (but not always) they are affiliate and I collect a small commission for any purchases you make after following that link to an online store.
Ember Sky Media is all amount passion in pushing what cameras and lens technology can do.
Astrophotography, Infrared and UV as well as Night vision, if its pushing limits I want to show you how you can get these results as well.
I do have some choice Affiliates if you are looking for new gear and want to support the channel (funds equipment so I can do various reviews and comparisons).
Ontario Telescope and Accessories: bit.ly/3eIIz4s
Highpoint Scientific: bit.ly/3uIK8oQ
Oceanside Photo and Telescope: bit.ly/30PjQmT
Feel free to contact me via the email below for collaboration or sponsorship opportunities.
PS. I have links in my video descriptions, often (but not always) they are affiliate and I collect a small commission for any purchases you make after following that link to an online store.
Sky Atlas Walkthrough for the Dwarf 3 Smart telescopes
With the Dwarf 3 immient release DwarfLabs has been hard at work developing an improved Sky Atlas for the Dwarf App. This atlas works for both the Dwarf II and Dwarf 3 (and I'm assuming Dwarf 4, 5, 6, when they eventually get released in the years to come) in order to find targets in the night sky and automatically have the small smart telescopes goto those targets and start imaging, which really makes the whole process a lot more fun and enjoyable for those new to astronomy and astrophotography!
Grab you Dwarf ➡️ dwarflab.com/products/dwarf-3-smart-telescope?aff=11?source=Atlas
Chapters:
0:00 DwarfLabs Updated Atlas
1:15 Dwarf Telescope Setup
3:00 How to Use a Sky Atlas
5:30 Imaging M13 Herculus Globular Cluster
6:15 How to find the Cresent Nebula in Cygnus
7:57 How to Support an Astronomer
8:19 Imaging the Witch Broom Nebula
9:36 Don't attempt to image too low in the sky
10:44 Astrophotography is 75% processing skills!
12:34 Please buy a Dwarf 3
#astronomy #Dwarf3 #SkyAtlas
** Links on this page may be affiliated and provide a monetary compensation if a purchase is made **
Grab you Dwarf ➡️ dwarflab.com/products/dwarf-3-smart-telescope?aff=11?source=Atlas
Chapters:
0:00 DwarfLabs Updated Atlas
1:15 Dwarf Telescope Setup
3:00 How to Use a Sky Atlas
5:30 Imaging M13 Herculus Globular Cluster
6:15 How to find the Cresent Nebula in Cygnus
7:57 How to Support an Astronomer
8:19 Imaging the Witch Broom Nebula
9:36 Don't attempt to image too low in the sky
10:44 Astrophotography is 75% processing skills!
12:34 Please buy a Dwarf 3
#astronomy #Dwarf3 #SkyAtlas
** Links on this page may be affiliated and provide a monetary compensation if a purchase is made **
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I am enjoying this livestream 5 months later, thanks for doing it and I hope you do more!
Yes the plan is more are coming, Summer is just a bummy time to do it (long days = later nights) so expect more in the fall. What I have been doing is setting up the telescopes and having them image into the morning on their own.
it seems the dwarf 3 is probably going to be amazing for bird watching
Yes, I expect it will really take it to the next level! Also I'm hopeful of imaging animals at night as well (there are two deer in the yard beside my house currently).
So, is this a Dwarf 3 you are using in this video, or are you using a Dwarf 2 but with Sky Atlas (which will be available for D3).
Dwarf 2 with the updated SkyAtlas, I don't have a Dwarf 3 yet but it will use the same Atlas.
Not water proof so still not a buy for me. If I can leave it outside 24/7 I would buy one in a heartbeat.
That is going to be an interesting test (or mod) is to have it setup 24/7 (or as close as possible to that) which basically needs to ensure the unit is water resistant enough. It won’t be waterproof as it should never be emerged in water. But rain… hopefully it will be able to handle some of that.
What andriod phone app can this support?
Not sure, I’m in iOS land (I do need to get ans droid at some point to test things to answer questions such as this).
@@EmberSkyMedia , I found one. It's called nExt camera. It worked
@EmberSkyMedia , found one! nExt Camera on the appstore
Samsung phones be like💀
“Here is your Super AI Zoom!” LOL, yes indeed!
DWARF LABS accually ripped of thosecwho bought a D2. The original app mucked and when they did improve it, took 12 months to do so, so left us with a poor app, now all of a sudden come out with a D3 and feels a more compete app. Why was it not like this before the D3, yet D2 owners had to put up with a buggy bad app for practically the life cycle of the D2. Think they only got cracking updating the app as a hook to buy the D3. So they take so long with updates it maybe D4 we get another major update. They hold the record for the least amount of updates and all the other smart scope manufacturers regularly update their apps, so don't feel ripped off. Also they still have not updated their data base which only has 500 objects you can pick from. Seestar is a far better product, and app far superior, with regular updates. And don't believe in half these reviews as they are influenced by companies to premote their products which often get for free, or use before anyone else, so of course give glowing reviews
35 inches across. That’s massive man. 😀😀😀😀😀
Pretty sure that is 35cm not inches, its only a tad bigger than the Dwarf II
Don't wast time. You are doing segment on the S50...first...do your updates before you start. I have no interest in watching % going up...start you video when you are ready to go. I can understand CZcamsrs who fail to edit or prepare for the clip they are about to make
This was a live stream… the goal was to show the whole process so people who know what to expect.
Another outdated trailer park person with the “genius” video blackbars smh
Sorry, but what are you refering too?
I’m toggling in my mind between buying the SeeStar s50 or the Dwarf 3, from what I have seen, the images you get are rather similar and with the SeeStar , these seem to be straight out of the box, but there are features in the Dwarf 3 that aren’t available with the SeeStar. I am a total beginner and novice and want to get into astrophotography , but I find post photo processing daunting , frustrating and complicated, I have tried it on my ordinary photographs but I just can not get my head around it. I use an ipad now and this has a very basic but uncomplicated photo adjustment program built in. So what is my main deciding factor is, which is the most user friendly and needs the least complicated post photo processing to bring out the photographs to good acceptable standard … which in your view would this be?
SeeStarS50 is the most user friendly of the two and you can get great photos with an hour or two of exposure on many popular targets. I have a video coming out (maybe today, maybe the weekend) where I show more in-depth Astrophotography sessions of a few hours on various targets I’ve been doing over the summer. And the SeeStarS50 is available today. The dwarf 3 looks on paper to be very good, but its predecessor the Dwarf 2 is more a “beginner/intermediate” device whereas SeeStars50 is dead easy to use.
@@EmberSkyMedia Many thanks for your reply, I actually went with and ordered the D3 , from what I have heard from many sources the D3 will be as easy to use as the SeeStar, they have apparently made it a much more a user friendly ‘Click&Go’ unit with a lot more of the processing being done automatically in the D3 its self. The Search and find is going to be much easier for beginners and will be able to photograph much larger DSO’s whole ( which the SeeStar can’t do at the moment) automatically. I think they have looked at the SeeStar and thought “🤔hmm , we need to capture that novice market “… we will have to wait and see of course, especially me since I have one on order, but I’m crossing my fingers it delivers what has been said about it.
What about Planets?
Jupiter/Saturn are “okay” but you really need a larger higher magnification telescope to get photos like you see people post with some frequency. For Planetary imaging I lean on my 8” EdgeHD.
You are just talking and not showed real footages through the eyepiece
Not sure how to "show" the view through the eyepeice, as you'd be looking through a camera lens as well. Ideas?
Very cool!
Thanks!
I just bought one of those and sold it quickly thereafter. It's nowhere near as good visually as my Skywatcher 80ED.
I got mine with the reducer/field flattener so I was pretty happy with the results. I have not used the SkyWatcher 80ED to compare.
How do I save my image?
Bottom right opens the save files and you can download them to your phone from there, however note that the current image doesn’t show up until you are finished.
How do I save my image? Before moving to another target.
It saves stacked images automatically on the SeeStar’s internal hard drive. However in the setting you can tell it to also save all the info vial images taken and you can also stack the images on a computer and with processing pull out additional detail.
Thanks
I'm very curious, but cautious about this company. They seem to have discontinued the dwarf 2 even though the 3rd version isn't out yet. If I buy the dwarf 3, how long will i be able to use it before the company cuts off support for it in favor of a new version?
I'll have an update video soon, but they have switched over to manufacturing the Dwarf 3, which is an improvement over the Dwarf 2, so my guess is there may be a few along the production route but they are no longer manufaturing the older model. They continue to update the Dwarf 2 firmware and software app, we just got an AI Enhance which I've been testing. So it sounds like they are commited to bring as much as possible to the Dwarf 2 as they can from the Dwarf 3 development.
@EmberSkyMedia oh ok! Thanks! That sounds good. I like when companies continue to support past products even when a new version is released.
@@revenger681 ditto!
can you explain the in camera white balance shift and how to do that?
Effectively you are changing the white balance from very warm to very cool which adjusts how the IR is handled as its coming in primarily on the RED channel.
Could you explain HOW to do that? I’m using a Kolari IR chrome filter so everything is a horrible blue to start with.
@@SDA-Sound are you using it on a IR or full-spectrum modified camera?
Can you really get photographed pictures like that from just a small telescope?? I don’t believe it. Until I actually see it for myself. It’s pretty cheap price for something that takes such…well pictures like that.
It does a surprising good job for the price, I have a series of videos on the Dwarf 2 (as I'm waiting on the Dwarf 3 to arrive) and you can see all the various shots I've gotten with that one. I will have a video out soon as I got some preview images from DwarfLabs to talk about but best would be to wait a bit longer for when I have the unit in my hands as I'll be doing all sorts of videos.
Well when you consider how small a camera lens aperture is, even on say F3 , and some of the amazing astro photographs have been taken with some dslr’s , I imagine you probably can tbh.
🌹 Time is clearly here!
Yes it is!
Thanks, I can’t wait to get mine. ❤
Ditto!
Of course there is a reason. It's called the Zwo Seestar
Depends on what you want, each has its own strengths and weaknesses.
The s50 beats on aperture 50mm v35mm ,and also focal length 250 v 150.
True, but the Dwarf 3 is 4K camera vs. A vertical 1080p, so there is a trade off depending what you want to image.
@@EmberSkyMedia yeah not keen on the vertical aspect only of the s50 .
How does it compare to the seestar s50 ?
I’ll hopefully be doing a side by side comparison at the end of month or early August once I have a review unit in my hands.
@@EmberSkyMedia look forward to it 👍
bro i thought this was mr beast talking this gotta be ai
This is my voice, I am not Mr. Beast.
Good day. Please tell me at what aperture you used this lens (Nikon 105mm f2.5 ais)? F2.5 or F4?
I always shoot Astrophotography wide open, as the Iris blades ruin the stars as you want them perfectly round.
@@EmberSkyMedia Thanks, maybe you know of other lenses that are sharp enough at open aperture for a price similar to the Nikon 105 F2.5? for a photo of the stars? 
Lots of words but no actual side by side real photograph comparisons. Or did I miss that as I kept fast forwarding through all the specs and talking? What l want to see is something like a photo of Orion nebula that's as spectacular as what I've taken with 2, and then be blown away with the Orion nebula taken with 3. Simple. If it doesn't do that, and it still can't do planets, then for me it's not worth upgrading.
Units have not been released yet, I’ll be getting a unit for review (hopefully) by the end of the month. At which time I’ll be doing side-by-side live streams of the units and more in-depth review. Orion Rises into the sky around late September (unless you like imaging at 4am in the morning then start of September) so I’ll be doing side by side of nebulas like Trifid or Lagoon Nebulas.
Sorry but they are both stepper motors, Hurst being the earlier type. Steppers to servo motors came in with the first Gemini system.
Thanks for the clarification Gary, the new motors have improved the mount tracking ability.
That thing looks like its going to leave us with a sore stiff neck and back . 😅😅
If you are worried about awkward angles of viewing then going with a Refractor telescope (just realize you need a bigger one not a $100 cheap thing) or a smart-telescope (which uses your smartphone) might be a better plan.
2 things I can’t understand about the DWARF III : -why a non removable battery? Planned obsolescence? A strange choice in 2024. -the DWARF II was able to support a 512 Gb SD card. This one is limited to 128 Gb… why? Was about to buy it but now, I’m not sure.
I believe the thinking was "less ports, more outdoor resistance" as to the choices to internalize the battery and SD card. Given that the Dwarf 3 can run pluggged for a long time (indefinetaly?) and connect to WIFI the idea is it becomes an outdoor all around observatory you can set-up and leave for days/weeks of automated observations etc. With the Dwarf 3 the only port is the USB-C port and I'm hopeful that's well sealed.
Took my dwarf2 back had it 6 months it won't turn on at all but when I put power to mains battery lights flash as charging,anyhow ended up doing a straight swap 4 the dwarf3 when it arrives in August
Sorry to hear about your Dwarf 2, but yay on the Swap for a Dwarf 3!
Cool Tutorial, I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Please update the pricing. Current pricing is $469 until July 1 then I presume it jumps to the standard $499 cost.
Price (and discounts) fluxuate, I based the price on the time the video was made and currently that is the lowest price it has been on offer. Changing it in the video is not possible at this time but in newer videos I'll reflect the price at the time of recording.
Also, if you are a D2 owner, they will give you a $50 additional discount. I ordered the D3 right after they announced it and was able to preorder for $399. All I did was email them after I made my order and they refunded the $50. I had to send them the original invoice for the D2.
Wait a sec, can this make the Dwarf able to track a satellite? Im going to assume no, but it may in fact be possible, although certainly not easy. Just wondering... for science. Like if you can track something like that, you could po9ssibly track a closer comet. The speed of tracking is probably going to be hindered by the slower cpu speed of the Dwarf 2 vs Dwarf 3 but again, its likely possible. It would be fun to attempt to get ISS but with a cheaper budget telescope, my expectations are based and not very high on getting anything more than a smear or a dot on the screen lol. If anything, I would like Dwarf to be able to view planets clearly in the future. Im not convinced either Dwarf 2 or 3 will ever be able to see Saturn clearly. To wrap it up, Im not here to bust on the Dwarf series, because Dwarf Labs really makes a quality piece of kit with these things. Everything they were designed for, they do well. I have been very happy with my Dwarf 2 so far, and I look forward to what improvements the 3 will bring in the future. Lastly, if you are running out of battery with your Dwarf, I HIGHLY suggest hooking up to a decent portable power bank while out in the field so you can sustain longer runtimes.
Thanks for the indepth reply, a lot to unpack there but here are my thoughts. 1. Dwarf 3 in equitorial mode (which it will have) I think will be better equipped to track faster moving objects than the Dwarf II. Not sure as fast as ISS, Tiangong, and Hubble but we can hope. 2. To see planets with surface and cloud detail clearly requires a lot of apature (my 8" telescope is just good enough). However particularly saturn the rings are currently becoming "on edge" at our vantage point so I'd hold off until 2026 to attempt to image it if you want the rings, but then I think larger smart telescopes will be on the market. 3. Yes, in and ideal world I'd just connect it up to the mains or a large battery, but alas I did not. One of the reasons I'm looking forward to the Dwarf 3's larger internal battery, then with a pack and it I could go for signfiicantly longer period or even connect to the mains and just run all the time (well with the scheduling feature they annouced, when its dark). Again thank you for your thoughts, It will be fun to see how more capable the Dwarf 3 will be but these app updates breath life into the Dwarf II as well!
The filter is not good for galaxy photos.
I think the filter is primarily for nebulas, when the moon is out go with it anyways but I try not to use filters if I can.
Can you comment more on making a mosaic manually? I can simulate the setup on telescopious, and it would give me coordinates.
You mention in a past video you can manually stitch a mosaic, and you had a video of it. I can't find the video.
While some of the upgrades are great the lack of expandable storage doesn't make sense to me. Why would one remove that?
I’m guessing (I don’t know) but that should improve the weatherproofing not having ports for the batter and the miniSD card. Now the only “port” is the USB.
Thanks, but no thanks! Dwarf buggy app needs to be fixed before lunching a new hardware. Have both Dwarf 2 and Seestar S50 and S50 works flawless and I wish Dwarf app would work as good. I wouldn't mind pay way more for smart telescope with at least 70mm aperture, 280-350mm FL, and 8MP and with optional software feature built-in to mount to proper use it in equatorial configuration. Maybe Dwarf 5 Pro or Seestar 70EQ Pro?
Eventually I think those bigger scopes are going to come, but likely not for another few years unless someone got something hidden under their hat.
@@EmberSkyMedia It might be sooner that we expect. ZWO will certainly not wait for their competitors to win this race. They have re$ources and experience under their belt to come up with nice smart scope. Fingers crossed...cheers!
@@gloomiehoodie I wouldn't mined a SeeStar S80, that way I could directly 1:1 compare it to my WO80mm telescope. Which would be fun.
@@EmberSkyMedia Certainly, S80 with a 320-400mm FL would be a dream for a portable smart scope. I'm down for that! However, I don't even know if these specs could be achievable without compromising its portability and price accessibility to most hobbyists. Let's see what ZWO team are capable of.
@@gloomiehoodie I'd expect the price to be just over double the S50 and it to be "portable" in terms of one can carry set it up etc, but I'd expect its more a "rolling case" then the foam briefcase for size.
Awesome. Can he design Ritchey Chretiens and Schmidt Cassegrains too? CF printed ones? I really want to see something like this, and how it performs in astrophotography.
You have to ask him, in theory it should be possible.
samsung make better mobile phones
At a point, optical design and element size will limit performance. Especially if you want fine details on your targets. Otherwise I’d just use my wide f1.2 lens all the time.
I received another $50 discount from Dwarf Labs since I had purchased a Dwarf2 from them. A good upgrade and will gift the Dwarf 2 to a family member so they can enjoy the night sky. Does anyone know what happened to Astro-Dwarf Adventures? Haven't seen him online in quite awhile.
No idea unfortunatly to the fate of Astro-Dwarf. Yes I'm going to gift my Dwarf II to a family memeber once I get some side-by-side comparisons done between the units,
In all honesty, as a Dwarf 2 owner looking at the specs, its a AVOID. Why? It has MINIMAL improvements compared to the Dwarf 2 and pales compared to the Seestar, for the same money. It will be nice to see a real review from a non-paid Dwarf Labs content creator.
Just to be clear, Dwarf Lab didn't pay me to make this video (they didn't even know I made it until after), or any of my videos (they did send me a review unit to review but they didn't pay me to say anything in my videos). Improvements are not "MINIMAL" as larger optics + better sensor + EQ Mode 60 seconds should add up to significantly better images. And the ability to use the wide field camera as well is a nice bonus. Should Dwarf II users upgrade, that's a harder question to answer, depends on how much of an improvement it ends up being and if the SeeStar S50 is more your flavour. But honestly the Dwarf II is quite capable and if you own one be happy to use it and not worry about "should you upgrade" until we see some hands-on comparisons, then decide what direction is best for you.
This improvement is great to see. I’m new to Astrophotography as a result of the cloudy solar eclipse experience (Niagara On The Lake, Ontario). I didn’t realize how expensive the hobby can be, as well as complicated. I was hoping to use one of my DSLRs and lenses, thinking I can do it for cheap, LOL. I’m currently in the process of building an OG Star Tracker (3D printed, open source software, about $230 Cdn spent). But, if an all in one, easy to travel with solution can be a gateway drug, and under $1K, it’s worth it. I’m hoping this update to the DWARF pushes for the next gen Seestar50, and get a bit more aperture and a slightly higher price, with the mosaic ability. Then I’ll get that.
Yeah, not sure ZWO’s next SeeStar is going to be, a lot of speculation of S70, S80 or S100. I expect 80mm but it could still be another year or two away as that big of optics will need heavier motor drive to operate.
Are filters extra ? Does the 3 do mosaic ? If the 3 does mosaics than shouldn’t a firmware be available for 2?
There are apparently 2 built-in filters and it should come with moasic mode. I’m hoping moasic gets some integration into Dwarf II, at the very least a basic system so it will take the overlapping photos but I doubt it will stack them in camera for the Dwarf II due to limited computing power.
The logical next step is to have a motorised EQ mount that automatically polar aligns itself or at minimum the ability to EQ mount it and change from AZ to EQ in the software
Actually given it has 2 cameras on board it should be pretty able to indicate on the app for polar alignment, but yeah it would be cool if it self-aligned.
@@EmberSkyMedia puzzled that nobody has done it yet
@@terrybrooks395 Would require a 3rd-axis motor to align the telescope's 2-axis to be in the right position.
What infill percentage did you use for the TPU, and what shore hardness rating was it?
NinjaTek 85A if I remember correctly, infill 10% (most likely).