Adventures in ASIAir land

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Adventures in ASIAir land

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Well Flo were good to their word and the Air arrived with me at lunchtime.

Had a quick setup and play; the basic setup was pretty swift using the 5G hotspot. I had a blip when I needed to connect to the mount, but that was solved by downloading the latest firmware for the hand control. Air connects through the usb connection on the HC for the AVX.

Tonight I had some fun connecting successfully to Sky Safari Pro in the end I achieved this by using an Ethernet connection to my extender. I was the able to do a quick align on the handset with the scope pointing roughly northwards and demo slewing from target to target which worked nicely. Finished off by walking into my house a slewing the demo from the moon to Polaris sitting some 40 feet and 2 walls away from my scope.

I now need to sort out why I can’t WiFi connect to my home network, but to be honest I think the Ethernet is probably a more stable technique.

Really not bad for day one out of the box. Initial thoughts are very positive, sure you have to play around a bit - but when don’t you :D.
Cheers,

Tony.

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Smart Scope: Dwarf II - Club and outreach work.

AP Refractor: Altair 72EDF Deluxe F6;1x & 0.8 Flatteners; Antares Versascope 60mm finder. ASIAir Pro.Li battery pack for grab & go.

Celestron AVX Mount; X-cel LX eyepieces & Barlows 2x 3x, ZWO 2” Filter holder,

Cameras: main DSO ASI533MC; DSO guide ASI120MM; Planetary ASI224MC; DSLR Canon EOS100 stock.

Filters: Astronomik IR cut; Optolong L-Pro; Optolong L-Enhance.

Binoculars: Celestron 15 x 70.

Latitude: 52.219853
Longitude: -1.034471
Accuracy: 5 m
Bortle 4 site. https://maps.google.com/?q=52.21985,-1.03447

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