tonyglossop

Tried out both Seestars together last night,

I ordered ordered my Seestar from FLO on Monday after they sent me an email I read at 9.0 AM that said they had them in stock, at that point the website said they had 75 in stock, they sold them all before teatime !!!!! . It arrived yesterday Wednesday, fantastic service. I can't wait now to try them both on the same DSO, and different ones at the same time. I only took up this hobby in the middle of Summer, and only now have I realised how few clear nights we actually get here in the north of England. ( 4 in 4 months for me 🙂 Now every hour on a clear sky now will be like having 3 hours of Data to play with ( using my skywatcher as well )

20 and 30 second exposures available

You lost me when I saw the word "parallax" 😄

to be able to do 2 different DSO's at the same time ?

To be able to do 2 different DSO's at the same time ?

I have treated myself to another ZWO SeeStar S50, will try doing the same DSO with both at the same time and stack both sets of fits and see if I get a much better finished image. And I will be able to make the most use of the few clear nights we get oop north in the UK. So, with my 2 SeeStar S50's, and my Sky-Watcher Evostar 72 ED DS should give me a lot of data to play with. ( I'm a lucky boy 🙂 )

FLO have as of this minute 36 ZWO SeeStar S50 in stock, had 75 3 hrs ago !!!

I ordered mine from FLO beginning of Sept, arrived first week in Oct, I don't know the waiting time at the moment but I was very pleased with my delivery time. Hope it arrives quickly for you.

I appreciate all what you're saying, apart from losing me with the open source stuff ( a bit beyond me 🙂 ) I just thought the exposure time was fixed to 10 seconds full stop , I suppose really for what it costs and what it can achieve we should just use it as is and just do the firmware / software updates as and when .

Like you said if it works great if not nothing lost, I did buy a load of kit early on this year and havn't had a chance to use it, I had it setup outside and the cloud came over just as I was about to go imaging, I have learned the asiair software but bought the seestar as it can be set up in minutes and will capture images in between the clouds ( to be fair my asiair will do the same but after a lot of time setting it up. ) The kit I got is this. Sky-Watcher Evostar 72 ED DS with Field flattner, Az-GTI-mount, -Az-GTI-mount wedge, ZWO ASI224MC CAMERA, SVBONY SV 198 guide scope , Canon EOS 600D DSLR Camera with bare sensor conversion, ASIAIR Plus, ZWO Automatic Focuser EAF, ZWO EAF Hand Controller.

I did buy a 2" filter holder off ebay for 7 quid, I remember seeing a post that said the moon was a bit over exposed, I thought the ND filter might be the answer as if it was a bit dark a few stacked images might work , I am a complete novece at this astronomy so excuse my ignorance, I only have a bit of knowledge about photography and a little photoshop, although I am liking Siril the more videos I watch and try things on it with only the one nights data I have collected so far.

I did know it wasn't any good for planets but I thought seeing that it is fixed to 10 second exposures that the ND filter might make it the equivalent to shortening the exposure time for lunar imaging. I've onlu used nd filters on normal photography.

Probably a daft question, but would a variable nd filter make a difference to say lunar / Planet exposures in the same way as a shorter exposure time would ? . I have a 2" filter mount for the seestar.

Probably a daft question, but would a variable nd filter make a difference to say lunar / Planet exposures in the same way as a shorter exposure time would ? . I have a 2" filter mount for the seestar.