“I'm a newbie trying to do EAA with the following equipment but having issues seeing anything at night. I'm using the ASI224MC, AsiAir Plus, Celestron Nexstar 8SE, camera in a diagonal, Bahtinov mask, and Celestron Starsense. I'm doing an initial star alignment with my starsenese then...
My setup has evolved a bit. I added a dovetail extension to get more clearance for the optical train, and added a second Celestron F6.3 reducer. I got my 22" monitor mounted on the cart, positioned so I can work from a seated position. The monitor is currently connected with a HDMI c...
Here is a Onedrive link to the Windows utility written by Davide Bassi for transferring time and location to the HC of a Celestron 8se and other scopes. It's a zip file called SSA.zip. The program works on both serial and USB HC's. You'll need to figure out what port your scope ...
I also wonder where the OP is located that they only have access to Celestron products. I'd be happy to recommend several outlets in Europe, SE Asia and Oceania where they can get a wide range of products. There's also Ebay, AliExpress and myriad other online options for anywhere on ...
Here are some photos of my EAA cordless setup, still in development. My scope is a Celestron 8se with Starsense. Computer is a Celeron-based NUC6CAYH with 8 GB memory. I drilled and tapped 3 holes in the vertical arm of the 8se to mount the NUC, so it's on nice and solid. The...
The first pic is all my equipment on a cart and Dewalt tool dolly. This is what I used for the 2024 eclipse. The mount is actually screwed to the wood on the cart so it won't fall over. The scope is a Celestron CPC 800 on its stock mount. I got the HD equatorial mount for as...
Finally, I removed the USB cable, powered up the mount again, connected my laptop to the Celestron WiFi ("Direct mode"), and then ran CFM again. Changed the settings in CFM to "use Wifi", and ran the update a third time. This mode "found" many more "devices" to update than the ...
One for my Celestron 6 SE and one for my Evolution 8. Now that the software requires more and more CPU I am sometimes limited with this outdated mini PC. But in most use cases all works still fine. Power drain is very limited and I can run +6 hours EAA time. ...
Scope: I don’t know of the scope you referred to but a lot of folks seem to start with Celestron 6” or 8” SCT’s with goto mounts all packaged in a single unit. If you want to start with what you have, you’ll need to research which cameras and mounts will work well with ...
Celestron LiFePO battery, rated 12V 3A 84.5Wh NUC in standby: 12.76V 0.06A, 0.8W Booting: 11.9V 1.1 - 2.8A, 13-33W Ready: 12V 0.85A, 10.2W SharpCap started, Camera & FW connected: 11.6V 1.43A, 16.6W Capture started: 11.7V 1.5A, 17.6W ...