Wow. Thank you. The most precious commodity any of us have is time, and you just saved me loads - not to mention the headaches, frustration etc. More power to you.

Thank you very much Hogarth, for your time and effort. I feel embarrassed that nobody else has done so yet. I’m transitioning from purely visual to astro photography and your video is helping me lots, Thanks again from Melbourne Australia

The guide was great, thank you, it made everything so much easier using plate solving to sync my mount location. I had one issue where apt would not connect to stellarium (error 5) on start up. The solution for me was to change port access settings on my firewall to specially allow access to the port i designated in apt and stellarium. Worked fine after that

This was a perfect video - Exactly what I was looking for . Thank you so much !

@HogarthsAstrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Your very welcome. Thank you for the comments

If you could do more tutorials for a total astrophotography noob that would be amazing. I find your method and steady pace very nice to watch. Thanks!

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, thank you for sharing this.

Great video Hogarth. As I am new to subject I can see the option for 2 or 3 sub videos. eg link to stellarium, basic plate solving alingment. Please also show in daylight mode as night mode is a not easy to see on screen. Cheers.

Thanks for this. Found your tutorial very helpful. Just gave up Backyard eos and astrotortilla(platesolver) after three years for APT. Should have switched ages ago. BYEOS seems pretty clunky compared.

Excellent vid! Thank you very much!!

@HogarthsAstrophotography

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Michaud thanks Dave

This is very useful. Many thanks for taking the trouble to share the information.

Really helpful!! im using a Startracker and a 600mm lens and usually have Stellaruim open on my phone and manually look at the stars and my test shots to work out where i am, this plate solving if it works will be amazing thanks for the effort of making it.

@HogarthsAstrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Phil, really appreciate the comments. I use this very method every time I shoot the night sky. It made things incredibly easy, even with non goto mounts.

great tip, I never knew that you can do this!

Very informative video, I am just starting to get my head round all these astro photography programs. I have downloaded APT trial version to see how it is. I am having trouble with setting the Lon & Lat settings they keep referring to some other area or part of the world, I have tried to add a couple of my favourite locations but get the same problem. There was a lot of information in this video that I was not aware of. So I recon that I will be replaying it to configure my applications. Cheers Robert Vict' Aust"

Very nice video! ty man

Great tutorial, I have all of mine setup and working now. Waiting on clear skies.

This is very useful. Many thanks!!!

@HogarthsAstrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great video!! Definitely a sub Can we connect DSLR to NINA using the same process ?

Hogarth... Thank you soooooo much!!!, I was looking for this long time ago, now it would be better if we can realign from STELLARIUM (I'm understand N.I.N.A. does) and then send it to APT to frame the GOTO In my case I'm dealing with another issue because my mount is a sky watcher star adventurer and only can control the RA, thank you again mate I'll appreciate any suggestion

Good video. Any idea how do you do it the other way round. Start in Stellarium frame the part of the image you want, the transfer coords to APT?

@matthilton8959

3 жыл бұрын

Have you managed to do this yet? I know a way to do it manually if you want to be able to. You can key Ra/Dec coordinates from stellarium on the object you are on into APT to get exactly where you want. You can then plate solve on them to centre it up bang on.

Super useful cheers

Great video Hogarth ,only I can't get Stellarium to change cameras or Telescopes automatically from a captured image in APT, have to select them manually in Stellarium find the object ok but wrong field of view most. times. I can't see if i am missing anything , if you set a different camera or telescope in Stellarium does it change when using 'show' in APT ?

@HogarthsAstrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

You need to set the camera number and telescope number in APT, that relate to your occulars in Stellarium. They start at zero by the way. So your first camera and telescope in Stellarium would be 0 and 0 in APT Thanks for watching and the comments.

@vk2np

3 жыл бұрын

@@HogarthsAstrophotography Yep did that but doesn't seem to follow automatically, I just change manually and seems ok most times.

i notice earth York, in your stellarium main page. I'm also in York and getting more and more into the hobby... Any suggestions on clubs or meetups etc?

@HogarthsAstrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Hello. There is a club that used to meet at the racecourse and also held talks at a nearby school.

@Pletharoe

3 жыл бұрын

@@HogarthsAstrophotography yes I saw that and wrote but have heard nothing for months... Nevertheless thanks for the reply, great videos and keep up the great work.

When setting up the plate solving software. Do you put your actual sope focal length in or its length with the flattner/reducer applied?

@HogarthsAstrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

So I think if you enter the focal length in apt which there is a section under the main right hand dialog, you don’t need to enter it in the actual PS software. APT i think passes that as an argument to the PS tool used as part of its invocation. In terms of if a reducer is used, I would say yes, enter the actual focal length after reduced, but again in APT. if your not using APT, then you would enter the focal length in the actual PS software. I used to do this when I was using ASPS in ‘standalone mode’..

This was a great video, But I am finding some odd behaviour between Stellarium and ATP. I have been using Stellarium to go to the object I want. I then take a 20 second picture, blind plate solve and then show. Stellarium would then show I was on the object I was looking for and did not move to the correct location which is what I'm expecting having watched other various videos on this. When I did a longer exposure I knew I wasn't on the object. The only solution I found was to use ATP to go and find the object, blind plate solve and then use the Goto++ this then found my object. It seems if you use Stellarium first to find the object its not quite right?!

@HogarthsAstrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

If i've understood you correct Greg.. im sure thats the whole idea of plate solving.. no mount will accurtatly goto a positon, without either first performing multi-step alignments.. or as i do.. slew to where the app thinks it needs to go.. plate solve and then use Goto++ and Aim to do exactly what you describe. Unless your initial pointing is way out.. i can usually get my target centered in < 3 minutes. hope this helps

@GregShaw

3 жыл бұрын

@@HogarthsAstrophotography I think what I was forgetting to do was to press Sync after the initial plate solve so that the mount actually knows where it is.Then use GoTo++ to to find and align on the object. I was spending over 1 hour trying to find my objects. Tonight I was able to do it in 5 minutes which is a huge improvement. I'm even using the plate solve technique to find a main star like Vega for setting up the focusing

how did you manage to connect your zwo camera to your regular camera lens for plate solving,I have bought a zwo camera for guiding and will be using my sony a7r3 and 200-600 lens as a telescope tube

@HogarthsAstrophotography

4 жыл бұрын

David Laurie www.telescopi-artesky.it/en/artesky/accessories-for-ccd-and-cameras/3632-canon-lens-adapter-for-cmos-zwo-qhy-8055517131763.html Or the Zwo canon EOS adapter..

I have since downloaded the full version of APT, in the installation wizard is there any where those index files are stored? because I cant find them if there is one. I have been making up dummy plans to check if my cameras (cmos) will be recognised in APT in which case they are. I am waiting for some clear skies to be able to try this program out. Robert Aust'

@HogarthsAstrophotography

4 жыл бұрын

NewBee101 you don’t really need to know where the index files get stored by all sky plate solver

Hey wondering if you can help me.. I’ve just started using plate solving.. so from the start I unpark hit object,choose my target hit goto. It will go to the target but then when it’s finished it’s not tracking.. I looked in eqmod and the tracking rate says not tracking. I click sidereal and it doesn’t do anything. It happens every now and then.. not all the time. So I have to shut down and try again.. on the 4th go the other night and it was ok.. tracking sidereal in eqmod. 🤷‍♂️ any help.

@HogarthsAstrophotography

4 жыл бұрын

Eqmod should automatically track after slewing. Which ASCOM mount driver are you choosing in APT.. presume it’s the Eqmod one

Informative but waving the cursor around makes it a little uncomfortable to watch.

@HogarthsAstrophotography

4 жыл бұрын

David Perry thanks for the feedback. I’ll try to keep it still on the next one