开云体育

Any Losmandy users capture the ISS and/or using SkyTrack??? Trying to decide whether to try this adventure.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:59 AM, Russ wrote:

Any Losmandy users capture the ISS and/or using SkyTrack??? Trying to decide whether to try this adventure.

?

Thanks Paul, may give this a try in the near future!

I have SkyTrack and L6 and still on my list to try, but every time a good pass is coming the weather has been poor so it is still on my to do list.

I finally got around to trying this. ?There’s a video out there that discusses default setup and I followed it. ?Tried it last night and it works great. ?Had a Cosmos satellite I tracked for a couple of minutes. ?Make sure your polar alignment is as good as you can get it, your mount is in good shape and the time on your pc and mount are very accurate. ?So far just an internet connection was sufficient for time sync. I also started with my widest FOV setup I have which is a Stellarview SVX102T and its reducer around 535mm

Follow the default video, it will get you started. ?I have some drift so I’ll start fine tuning things tonight.

?

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 04:37 PM, Bill Grogan wrote:

I finally got around to trying this. ?There’s a video out there that discusses default setup and I followed it. ?Tried it last night and it works great. ?Had a Cosmos satellite I tracked for a couple of minutes. ?Make sure your polar alignment is as good as you can get it, your mount is in good shape and the time on your pc and mount are very accurate. ?So far just an internet connection was sufficient for time sync. I also started with my widest FOV setup I have which is a Stellarview SVX102T and its reducer around 535mm

Follow the default video, it will get you started. ?I have some drift so I’ll start fine tuning things tonight.

Yes, I’m using SkyTrack. ?I’ll figure out the video posting, I did successfully get the space station last night but still on my wide setup so it’s just a dot. ?Now that I know things are working I’ll swap out for a longer focal length and see what happens.

Anyone have any advice on video file editing or compression? ?I have several vids but I can’t post them do to size. ?My smallest is 85mb and is only 2 sec. ?Some type of compression needed? ?Edit into different format? ?Capture at lower resolution? ?I’m not a video guy! Ive worked on still photos since the beginning.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 11:59 AM, Bill Grogan wrote:

Anyone have any advice on video file editing or compression? ?I have several vids but I can’t post them do to size. ?My smallest is 85mb and is only 2 sec. ?Some type of compression needed? ?Edit into different format? ?Capture at lower resolution? ?I’m not a video guy! Ive worked on still photos since the beginning.

That would be worth a try. ?I have longer vids too and want others to see them on the hope someone can assist with the drift in the tracking. ?On the one minute video the station just starts to drift slowly towards edge of frame. ?SkyTrack offers tracking ‘adjustments’ but I want to make sure the baseline is as good as I can get it first then apply corrections. ?I’ll see about YouTube.