Exciting. Please keep us posted if you have any info on the official release.

Glad you got your hands on one. I had thought it was just rumour. Hopefully it will drive ZWO to open up the Air to other equipment. Competition is always good!

@AstraPharmaq8

21 күн бұрын

Let hope the software gets as mature as the ASIAir’s ….. Right now it seems very rough around the edges. With a little bit of polish this could be just what the community needs!!

Looks good. I'm still waiting for the QHY version. Thanks for sharing.

Great video Ali! Looking forward to more of videos from you.

@AstraPharmaq8

4 күн бұрын

Thanks! I really appreciate the support!!

Great report AstraPharma, thanks for bringing this to the attention of the community - definitely one to watch :)

@AstraPharmaq8

24 күн бұрын

Thanks for dropping this comment. There’s a new beta to try out for this and I’ll be showcasing it too very soon!!

Very very interesting, Ali. Thanks for the preview!

@AstraPharmaq8

Ай бұрын

Thank you Nina, I'm glad the hobby is becoming more and more accessible! Clear Skies!

Got yourself a new subscriber 😊 Great work and I can't wait to follow your journey with Touptek Astrostation.... I am awaiting my order 😉👍

@AstraPharmaq8

29 күн бұрын

Thank you Scott! I will try to make a long form video taking you through the process hopefully in a week or two. If there is an update to the app I will do so sooner. Thank you for watching!

It's UI and app needs more fine tuning. Looking forward to picking one of these up when it ages a bit more. Let them have time to work out the bugs and have a more mature interface.

Someone is getting more and more subscribers every day ;) Keep up the great work !

@AstraPharmaq8

28 күн бұрын

I can't express enough how much comments like these mean to me. Between work, family and life's never ending obligations it takes a concerted effort of will to make these videos, simple as they may seem. Thank you for making my day friend, and clear skies!!

Wonderful content you are doing!! Keep it coming. Clear skies.

Great scoop. Very very interesting to see tis is about to be released. I'm sure it will please a lot of the "fear of becoming trapped in the ZWO Universe" people 😅. With the imminent release of this and the release of the Stellarmate pro, I wonder if it will force ZWO open their ASIAIR to be used with other camera manufacturers.

@AstraPharmaq8

Ай бұрын

I really hope so, the ZWO AA+ is the most headache free control unit. It is better than many acquisition softwares on the PC and trust me when I say I’ve tried them all! If they include the entire INDI library of drivers rather than only allow their own equipment, it would take over the market. We’ll see how they respond to this when it comes out 😂

Thanks for the great video, can’t wait to get my hands on one when they are released!

@AstraPharmaq8

25 күн бұрын

I appreciate your support, keep an out on the channel this week or the next. TT has released a new beta that we’ll test in a long form video 👌🏼

Impressive 👏

Thanks for this heads up!

@AstraPharmaq8

4 күн бұрын

No worries, thanks for watching!!

Joined and liked. Bring it on !!!

My Astrostation arrive today without any pre-notice. I can control everything in a dry run. I now need to test it when it is dark. Let's see if version 1.0 20240621 can do better. Btw: the dongle is used to connect to home WiFi?

About time a company took on the ASi air, plus I love the fact it looks almost identical to one, the app looks good & seems to work well obviously the official app will function as it should & hopefully be a lot less buggy than the Stellarmate's. I can see these being big sellers when they are officially released as when they are I'll be on the shopping list for one.

@AstraPharmaq8

24 күн бұрын

There is a new beta that fixes the issues with this version, I’m just waiting for a free day to dive into it and make a complete walkthrough! Thanks for the comment and the support!!

I've had mine on order since February and I'm a reseller and haven't gotten hold of it yet. Surprised you managed ir

I can't wait to try one of these. I think they will sell a lot of them.

@AstraPharmaq8

21 күн бұрын

Thank you for commenting on my video Ben! I hold you in very high regard when it comes to content creators in this field and I’ve been inspired by you a few others to start my little channel!! You’ve made my day, clear skies!!

@TheNarrowbandChannel

20 күн бұрын

@@AstraPharmaq8 That is great. More good content is always welcomed.

Please, compare this Touptek AstroStation with Stellarmate in addition to ASiAir. What is there inside? PC, Raspberry…? I am not sure using a SD card is a good idea from Touptek. My experience with the Stellarmate OS in Pi4 and Pi5 is that SD cards are very very slow in comparison with a PCIe NVMe or USB SSD. I saw your channel time ago but today I subscribed! Thanks!

@AstraPharmaq8

19 күн бұрын

Maybe I misled you with the SD card comment, the Astrostation has internal storage just like the ASIair. The SD card slot can be used for extra storage. Touptek are releasing a new version of the app every week and iterating very quickly. When a more stable version of the app is released, I will definitely make a full comparison video. Thank you for watching!

What's your take on the dedicated mini hardware vs PC/laptop option? There's so much community developed open source software out there.. what are you giving up to go down the packaged system route? Good video by the way, awesome that you were able to get your hands on a beta. Hopefully you can give them some feedback based on your experience with it. CS!

@AstraPharmaq8

Ай бұрын

It depends on the unit in question, the telescope and your target. The ASIair is as reliable as anything and I would prefer it over a laptop anyday. I still use a laptop for my bigger rig as it has multiple non-ZWO equipment and I use metaguide to collimate the SCT. For a smaller refractor the ASIair really is the most headache free option but you are limited to ZWO cameras and focusers which nags at me quite a bit tbh. I still use it though. For planetary, nothing beats a laptop with sharpcap and a fast USB3 connection. Perhaps one day a small unit can do everything a windows PC can do but it's not today. maybe something like the eagle could be the best of both worlds but I'm yet to try it!

Great video! I am definitely getting one of these. Do you happen to know the official release date yet for the USA? Keep up the great work!

This device could be a game changer. What about WiFi signal? How reliable was connectivity and distance?

@AstraPharmaq8

4 күн бұрын

Connectivity is very similar to the ASIair, which is stable once connected. As far as distance, I haven’t done much testing. Great idea for the next video I do on the thing! Thanks for watching!

accept rotator, that make a big different

@AstraPharmaq8

29 күн бұрын

It accepts my Esatto Arco but that’s because they work in unison on the same FOCUSER driver. As of yet, it seems like there is no rotator option

What are the video options on this? My main problems with the Asiair Plus are the 1080p video resolution limit and the lack of video autorun. The former issue makes my Asi533mc useless for lunar, and the latter makes solar imaging incredibly annoying as I need to manually start each exposure for a timelapse. Sitting around refreshing a one minute phone timer for three hours is not efficient or enjoyable.

what is going to be the price ? And when is it going to be accesible ?

ZWO should open its system

@ScottDavies

11 күн бұрын

Will have to if the Astrostation is a success! Even this will support ZWO gear, they'll have no choice in my opinion

@AstraPharmaq8

10 күн бұрын

@@ottoertl1866 @scottDavies Agreed!

Hi Ali! You got another new subscriber.👍🏻 Thank you very much for the brief review! I am also thinking about affording the Astrostation. I have a dealer by hand who could ship it to me right away. Even though the App is not released yet I was able to dl the APK from the Touptek website with some trial an error. What is the software version that you have? I have Version 1.0. Looks like it is not any beta version anymore.

@AstraPharmaq8

22 күн бұрын

Hey 👋🏻 Thank you for subscribing!! I am currently on 1.0.20240607. Honestly, I would advise you to wait until more bugs gets fixed. Guiding still isn’t working and for some reason the auto-stretch is broken now 🤔. Thanks again for the comment and the sub!!

@astrofromhome

22 күн бұрын

@@AstraPharmaq8 Thanks for your input. The 20240607 is the version that I have too. It looks like Touptek is coming out with updates to the App almost every week. So there should be hope that they may fix the guiding very soon. Somewhere I found the information that the the guiding also utilizes PHD(2). As this program is state of the art for guiding and can communicate with any other software I guess it is just a small adjustment of parameters in the API until communication works properly. In a Chinese video that I unfortunately do not find anymore as it was not uploaded to KZread, the guiding was working from what was visible on the screen. Maybe the bug was introduced by fixing something else. Shipping from China will take a few days that there should be at least one update to the app until I have the box in my hands. I think I will give it a try that once the software is working properly that I am ready to go. I am waiting desperately for the Astrostation since it got announced. Btw does the Astrostation support the Gemini focuser and gear from Wanderer Astro? That things are not working properly I am used to when using my AsiAir Plus. 😄 Screen refresh not working after tablet was locked, counter not working from time to time, AF routine hanging, connecting - disconnecting the TF card now an then during an imaging session, saving exposures not working in Autorun, etc. I also already had the case that PHD2 in the AsiAir switched the direction of guiding pulses after a few minutes on DEC axis. So the AsiAir is also not any close to perfect and issues may occur.

will it have a star map so you can do mosaics/rotations etc? If so then this will be a ZWO killer

@AstraPharmaq8

Ай бұрын

The beta so far seems very basic and not as sophisticated or mature like the AA+. I would be surprised if they didn’t add at least some of these features if they want to compete with a unit as sophisticated as the AA+.

Will DSLRs work?

@AstraPharmaq8

4 күн бұрын

I’ll check and let you know!

@joaomoreiraastrophotographer

4 күн бұрын

@@AstraPharmaq8 thank you 🙏

I hate short videos.

@Talalpro_1

29 күн бұрын

cope

@sHuRuLuNi

29 күн бұрын

@@Talalpro_1 LOL. I am saying he should make longer videos - more content ... The youth today ...