Travel Astrophotography with a Big Camera and a Small Telescope
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- In this video we take the ASI2600MC Duo and Askar FMA180 down to Arizona to the Analog Astronaut Conference. We fit everything in a small carry on bag, and there was no need to check the tripod (which I borrowed from the SeeStar).
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That's a great video John. Thanks for letting us learn alongside you.
Seeing the Northern Lights wasn't something my dad or I expected to see in our lifetimes, but the solar storms really threw us a bone that night.
Exactly!
Great job at winging it John! That is an amazing travel rig! I drove to Mastodon Ridge to find clear sky on 10 May. Amazing view of the Northern Lights!
That’s awesome that you were able to make the drive! I’m hoping to get a photo from Stargaze NS that includes them.
Excellent John. May I suggest you replace that bolt with a grub screw. It takes away the possibility of the bolt ever catching on anything. Your setup looks great!, Carey
Hi Carey! Yes, that’s on my to do list :-)
Hey from South Africa, learning astronomy and astrophotography, all the best with your application Jesse.
Northern Lights were great from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia.
Awesome! I bet view would have been great from Blomidon!
I have flown all over with my seestar s50 and TSA loves me as well. it goes through the detector and then the whole thing shuts down, even when I tell them beforehand. I am used to it now and usually allow 15 extra min to get through security. they have never seen anything like it before. One time the supervisor of the airport actually came down and we spent 30 minutes showing off the scope and what to look for and all the TSA checkers got to look it over. Now when I go to my airport, they all know me as the telescope guy. lul. Also, good trick bringing your kid. When you take your kid along, anything is possible because everyone wants the next generation to experience all they have to give. It is amazing how everyone just wants to show them the universe. I am glad he likes it.
Yup! I took my some Isaac (he wore his orange space suit), and on the way home the TSA got to see all my Northern Lights photos!
Excited for your book on Stargazing with Binoculars. I was gifted a pair and will purchase your book to add to my collection❤
Awesome! I’m guessing October 2025 will be the release!
Hey! I too saw the Northern Lights that night (Western Canada). That was wild.
Cool!
The northern lights were just crazy up here in Quebec City :)
I bet!
Great job!
Thanks Dave!
Thank you for the video!
Where did you put the power supply? I travel with Astro gear often and the one thing I always struggle with is having to carry power supply on my person when boarding the plane. That combines with small telescope and the mount- it’s a challenge (and heavy with airline weight limits)
I just tossed it into by backpack. They’ve never questioned that.
Love this tiny travel setup. I use an Askar180 (1st gen) with a 294mm. the 180 first generation shows a bit of colour fringe. I think your 180Pro is a bit better corrected, isn't it? How do you find the images?
Not perfect, it nearly so!
You know you can simplify the rig even more by connecting the camera directly to an Android tablet?
You can run live stacking on Android and have an excellent EAA/AP rig.
This way you can power the camera from Android (ok not cooled) and put 8xAA to AZ GTi and make it even smaller simpler. And OLS app supports making bright screen to take flats 🙂
Cool! But not cooled 😎
@@LearnToStargaze you can cool, but need an external power.
It is an Open-source project I work on it for more than a year - Open (break) Live (ignore this) stacker -
YT deleted my comment... it is yet another my OSS project 🙂 (or it didn't?)
Great video. How do you connect the 54mm camera to the 42mm lens? You clearly don't have problems obscuring the guide sensor in the Duo camera.
It just worked with the included adapters. :-)
Crazy to think your great opportunity was "ruined" by one of the strongest recorded solar storms in like 20+ years! We saw it here near Calgary. It was very intense, but interestingly it did not dance and create much movement, which we have observed previously in strong storms.
I saw it in Georgia
Wow!
Targets to the south were fine, and for galaxies I just had to remove the gradient. But yeah, no nebulae! Crazy!
I have a small rig myself
Went out last night with A Sky Watcher Startravel 120/600 on a motorized CG-4 mount using a SvBony 705c (asi 585). Big scope, small camera. Opposite of what you did.
Nice!
Going out tonight with my homemade starsense dock because the one i bought was broken. Hopefully it works
1:52 doesnt look heavy, than again your definition is definitely going to be different, my 5 inch refractor is about 11lbs
🤯Are you allowed to bring the Celestron battery on the plane?
Yes, but it is supposed to go under your seat with personal items.
Did you know that there is a black hole within signees well apparently you don’t know that in 1971 a source of x-ray radiation was found in the constellation of signees
Since then, more x-rays and possible black holes have been located in other galaxies, including our own
This is literally one space object to avoid that’s why black hole energy is extremely unstable
For example, here’s another black hole from far away take Sagittarius, a which is basically another black hole somewhere possibly in our galaxy maybe not but if you sucked into it which I’m pretty sure you won’t be You can feel a kenetic energy of 4.6 decillion mega tons of TNT
Enough to obliterate a solar system