11pm – 2:30am
I collected the new ZWO Seestar S30 Pro (S30P) today. I thought Luke and I could give it a little run, even though astronomical darkness is no longer with us until August.
I setup the S30P here on the observatory patio. Luke setup the S50 at his house. We then took a variety of test images on both to compare the different scopes.
Whilst I waited for darkens to fall I took a quick phot of Venus and Jupiter close together on my iPhone.
Then we setup the S30P so that it could be used remotely. You can share the scope but only 1 person can be logged in at any one time.
First we tested out just getting focus on Arcturus and seeing what FoV we would get with the much larger chip of the S30P.
Next we slewed to M13. Given the light nights it’s better not going for a galaxy or nebula.
Then I went fore M27 on the S50 only but I had problems with red banding on the photo. It must have been some interference, however I was not quite sure I knew from where.
Then I did M10 on the S50. At the same time I did M92 on the S30P as M10 was poorly positioned.
I then tried a Milky Way shot but this was too faint due to the night sky being so very bright.
Lastly I set the S30P performing a short Star Trails image on Polaris.
