Pauls Space

2 hours ago, Starwatcher2001 said:

Ah sorry Paul, my mistake. Celestron stupidly have two entirely different products called "StarSense" - StarSense Autoalign which uses a camera to align the telescope, and StarSense Explorer - the app that you use.  You did mention "app" in your post and I totally missed that bit.

https://www.celestron.com/products/starsense-autoalign

https://www.celestron.com/collections/starsense-explorer-smartphone-app-enabled-telescopes

 

 

Ah ok sorry my mistake it’s the explorer app although the camera app sounds good unfortunately I’ve got the manual one one a 6” Schmitt 

12 hours ago, Starwatcher2001 said:

Welcome aboard SGL Paul. Good to have you with us.

I've not seen that problem here. There can be a bit of a learning curve and messing around getting it going to start with (getting the right settings, aligning the camera with the tube etc), but after that I've never had any trouble. In fact I'm surprised how well it works and aligns itself in twilight. I'm using using the SkySafari  app.

 

 

Hi  Starwatcher

thank you for your time 

my StarSense is manually powered it’s the app that uses your smartphones camera 

Its the smartphone camera and app that I’m having trouble with as it won’t see objects in a not so dark sky

cheers

Hi 

Thank you all for the warm welcome and  help with the StarSense issue 

I look forward to our conversations 

Hi 

Has anyone had any problems with the star sense app not being accurate in a not so dark area ?