How a Star Tracker Works

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  • Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
  • In this video I explain how my Fornax LighTrack star tracker works, enabling me to take long exposures of the night sky & Milky Way without the stars trailing. I made an earlier video where I looked at different model here • An introduction to Sta...
    How to shoot the Orion Nebula with a tracker • Imaging the Orion Nebu...

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  • @jayoneill1533
    @jayoneill1533 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks Stephen for the interesting tutorial from the famous AstroGarden.

    • @eddiedarling1153
      @eddiedarling1153 2 роки тому +2

      what an amazing bit of gear mate and we'll explained

    • @starman1969
      @starman1969  Рік тому

      @@eddiedarling1153 Thanks 🙏

  • @eddiedarling1153
    @eddiedarling1153 2 роки тому +3

    an amazing bit of gear mate and we'll explained

  • @moonagedaydream4489
    @moonagedaydream4489 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you Starman, that was very interesting xxx

  • @JoshBellgolf
    @JoshBellgolf 2 роки тому +2

    Great video video again love these 👍🌏🌏

  • @vicamaral
    @vicamaral 2 роки тому +1

    i love when you bring out new toys clear skies.

  • @petelaycock2842
    @petelaycock2842 2 роки тому +1

    Fascinating bit of kit. Thanks 😊

  • @wooddogg8
    @wooddogg8 2 роки тому +1

    Hi Stephen. Good to see the Lightrack out again!! I have the same one and I love it. Hope you get it out again at night soon, though I haven't been out in a while with the crummy cold weather. Clear skies mate!!

  • @mikejoynt7574
    @mikejoynt7574 2 роки тому +1

    Brilliant 👏

  • @Kevansjones
    @Kevansjones Рік тому +1

    Nice video. Looks very complicated to me. 😂😂

    • @starman1969
      @starman1969  Рік тому

      It’s not too complicated once you get used to it.

  • @yourstarwillshine
    @yourstarwillshine 2 роки тому +1

    nice Starman I have the Ioptron.................the key to getting the tracking right other than polar alignment is making sure your rig is balanced........very important or you could have the gears working against the weight of your camera which is not good. Also dont leave it running for hours as all these mounts need a manual meridian flip after a while if your doing long sessions

  • @dianemorton9473
    @dianemorton9473 2 роки тому +1

    Yeah he's back ,he's amazing ,love him thankyou ,TVs off ,this is better ,wow wow your amazing ,you should be on TV,enquire interested

  • @chenlee3240
    @chenlee3240 Рік тому +1

    The thing you look through looks like its looing at the ground

  • @joliecomerford7095
    @joliecomerford7095 2 роки тому

    good morning

  • @GiggingGiggers
    @GiggingGiggers Місяць тому

    This isn't actually a star tracker. It does not lock onto a star like Hubble Space Telescope. All this mechanism does is to derotate the sky.

    • @starman1969
      @starman1969  Місяць тому

      Bit of a different beast to the Hubble. This is one of any number of portable devices that are called star trackers.