For my own rig I use SharpCap, which has a polar alignment procedure in it. This will depend on what camera you use, because SharpCap can only work with astrocams. If you don't have any other means of polar aligning and you're using a wide angle lens, like 17mm, you can simply make a guess at it, using a magnetic compass corrected by local magnetic declination, and an inclinometer. Your smartphone can probably do both of these.
Hi Nice video, I particularly liked the ending! I do have a question, using an android phone, with SkySafari 7 Plus and Ioptron Commander Lite, what settings do I need to adjust, to get SkySafari to talk to the mount? If you have a link to somewhere that shows this, that would be great. Thank you.
Nice video overview. Great to see iOptron coming out with a nice, small, and very portable goto mount. As for NZ being part of Australia, no thanks, you can keep all that deadly wildlife🤣🤣.
Australia isn't the only place with weird wildlife. There's a parrot over there that seems to have a diet exclusively made up of car windscreen wipers! 🤣
Thanks for your information full video. iOptron need to produce a means to control the iPolar that doesnt require a laptop but can instead be controlled from a mobile or tablet. Cheers, Stdve
I got one and it’s not properly tracking in RA, search for the thread in CloudyNights forum. I wish it was working right because is such a nice small rig, so lightweight… but I’m getting a lot of jittering as a lot of others are reporting
Hi, really nice video. I had a question - can we mount a DSLR to the iOptron Skyhunter mount with a camera tripod attachment? If not, can we use any other adaptor? Thanks
@@siderealtrading2415 lol I just couldn’t figure out which side of the button was on and which is off, mount works wonders, perfect guiding almost every night🙂
How to polar align without iPolar?
For my own rig I use SharpCap, which has a polar alignment procedure in it. This will depend on what camera you use, because SharpCap can only work with astrocams. If you don't have any other means of polar aligning and you're using a wide angle lens, like 17mm, you can simply make a guess at it, using a magnetic compass corrected by local magnetic declination, and an inclinometer. Your smartphone can probably do both of these.
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Nice video, I particularly liked the ending!
I do have a question, using an android phone, with SkySafari 7 Plus and Ioptron Commander Lite, what settings do I need to adjust, to get SkySafari to talk to the mount? If you have a link to somewhere that shows this, that would be great.
Thank you.
he only wants like clicks and cant be bothered to research for your answer..
Nice video overview. Great to see iOptron coming out with a nice, small, and very portable goto mount. As for NZ being part of Australia, no thanks, you can keep all that deadly wildlife🤣🤣.
Australia isn't the only place with weird wildlife. There's a parrot over there that seems to have a diet exclusively made up of car windscreen wipers! 🤣
@@siderealtrading2415 🤣🤣
Would this hold an 80 cm doublet refractor? It weighs 3kg. Adding a flattener and DSLR, or a 2" diagonal and eyepiece is going to take it over 4kg.
Thanks for your information full video. iOptron need to produce a means to control the iPolar that doesnt require a laptop but can instead be controlled from a mobile or tablet.
Cheers,
Stdve
Agreed! If I need to carry around a laptop, why get a tiny "ultra portable" mount?
I got one and it’s not properly tracking in RA, search for the thread in CloudyNights forum. I wish it was working right because is such a nice small rig, so lightweight… but I’m getting a lot of jittering as a lot of others are reporting
Hi Andre, where did you get the mount? If there's something wrong with it it should go back for inspection and testing.
Hi, really nice video. I had a question - can we mount a DSLR to the iOptron Skyhunter mount with a camera tripod attachment? If not, can we use any other adaptor? Thanks
Thanks for the video! Any word about if e can auto guide with this little mount?
Could you explain the RA balancing? It works easy with the DEC but the RA is not usual since you have to loosen the dove bar below.
Hi and thanks for your indepth review. Do you know if this mount is compatible with ASIAIR pro/plus?
This is something we have not yet tested as we don't have a spare AISair at the moment.
@@siderealtrading2415 any update on this? I’m looking to pair this with an asiair plus
Super video very nice explanations, thank you!
Hey I tried charging my mount and it just didn’t work, any idea what it could’ve been?
If it's not charging, then you'd start by checking the power supply, including fuses.
@@siderealtrading2415 lol I just couldn’t figure out which side of the button was on and which is off, mount works wonders, perfect guiding almost every night🙂