Fiddling Around with a Dwarf II Smart Telescope -- Orion Nebula

[JonCarleton]

I bought a Dwarf II when they first came out and ended up not doing much with it, as using it on a phone was tedious for me and I didn't have a big enough tablet to make much improvement.  One day, for grins, I tried putting Android on a Raspberry Pi4, then loading the Dwarf II software.  Eureka!  Now I could use the little contraption on a 1080P HDMI screen.  For me, this was a game changer.  It has limitations, and you won't get "pixel-peeper-proof" images, but it isn't a bad little device if you work within its limits.  Here is the Orion Nebula.  1200x10 second subs over 2 nights.  Processed with ASTAP(grading), Siril (stacking), PixInsight (general processing) and GIMP (finishing, sizing and type conversions).

 

 

Edited February 23 by JonCarleton