Hi Forest, are there any KZbin videos to be expected at some point or can I remove the subscription to this channel? In any case, I was very interested in the progress of the dome, but also in beautiful astro observations. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Hey are you still active

Forest! Nice to see you again. I SO appreciate you talking about cable length limits, connection speed issues, security, efficient logins... you have covered all the important setup points, many of which we often only discover through trial and error. Excellent, clear, simple explanations. Great video!

You have a rf mount camera what adapter did you use? I would like to put my canon r50 on a redcat

Good tips, you might want to try doing multiplication for decimal part for your field of view calculation. Your 6.40° field of view would then be 24" (minutes, not inches for those who might not know) when you multiply the .40 by 60.

Really useful! Just got my telescope and stellarium plus! Thank you! I do have two questions, though. Is there somewhere I can accurately define my telscope max magnitude? And, can I set Stellarium to show how things would look like in my telescope?

I was looking at the Red cat, but the Askar 71F is looking like a nice affordable option for beginners as well. Probably can't go wrong with either.

I love that

Useful . Thank you

I've used the Stellarium Plus App for years and don't own a telescope.

Does it give you a preview of the direction the stars/milkyway will move throughout the night?

This is art

any upcoming video on how to automate the dome of your observatory ?

please make a full video showing how to make an automated observatory

Excellent material, awfully helpful, tks!

Are you still using the NexDome?

You just got a new subscriber. Excellent video and answered everything i wanted to know. Great job.

My focus tension got stuck 😭 any tips to untighten it?

Great video! Please explain couple points. If NUC computer switched off, could you switch it on remotely? Does this software have such capabilities?

I know this video is 3 years old, but it's new to me in 2024. I recently purchased my first "real" telescope. I can see where apps like Stellarium will really be useful. Thanks for the giving this tutorial in a succinct easy to understand way.

If you put the mount in counterweight down position I.e. that is with the telescope pointing towards the celestial North Pole. And then do a warm start rather than a cold start, you will not lose the model of the sky. You simply need to instruct the amount to point to a star and then use the direction controls on your computer or on the handset to center the star and then select sync in the model will be realigned with them out.

Nice! Showed exactly the features I was wondering about

This video is pure gold. Thank you

For this telescope do you need a camer or can you just look into the camera socket on the telescope and see what its aimed at

Good video. I use Microsoft's RDP from an M1 Mac Mini to my remote windows computer and it works like "being there" :). Plus I can RDP from a Chromebook and from my linux laptop. Not sure what the motivation would be for AnyDesk if you risk being nagged to subscribe (and wow, it looks expensive)?

When you poured your pier, why did you not pour it all at once?

I use SplashTop personal. 😊 Excellent quality and free. Compatible with Windows and iPads. Clear Skies & God Bless.

thanks

How do you setup auto reboot and auto login, that you mentioned around minute 8. I can't find any option for that in Any Desk.

I am so glad you made this video. I was just about to message you with these questions. I am planning to build a fiber optic connection. Wireless is nice but I think a fiber optic connection would be stabler. Can I ask why you don't use Windows Remote Desktop?

Hi Forrest Thankfully NexDome got things straightened out and got the invoice to me and I’ve gotten taken care of. Thanks Again Your Fan Robert Montgomery

Hi Again Thought I’d send a link to a video of my project. It is being built next to a fish pond and the lower part is going to be for the pump house for the pond. Its intended to look like the platform sitting on a hill and will have a large waterfall surrounding part of it. -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2mYi2Ohl7Olpsk

Hi Sure have enjoyed your videos and explanations of the NexDome project. I have one and am working on my platform for the dome. I wondered if you could tell me what the diameter of the wheels for the dome are . They look like around 4 inches. They were missing from my kit and I had surgery right after I received the kit and it was a year before I got it check kit. Been trying for a week to get them from NexDome and they are having issues with that. Because of the time issue I’m not asking them to correct the issue just let me buy some from them. They have cooperated but don’t seem to be able to get the price to. Got a email today saying that a invoice was sent but it wasn’t delivered. Getting tired and am about try to get them elsewhere. If I knew the diameter I could try Amazon. Hope you can help me. Thanks Rob M.

Looks great! I recently switched from using any desk to Microsoft RDP, I almost can’t tell I’m using a remote session!

Very clear and complete explanation. In combination with the earlier version about the glass/fiber connection, this gives a clear picture. Great, greetings from the Netherlands.

Very good, now how do i use compass, because my stellarium app cannot calibrate compass..

That hill is real pretty, kinda looks like the Windows XP screensaver ;)

You could have done the 500 foot network link wirelessly with 2 Yagi antennas connected to a wireless router on each end. Ask me how I know. You wouldn't get the same throughput but it would have worked pretty well. Also a lot cheaper.

Who is interested in learning more about the software I use to control my observatory remotely? 🔭

It can toggle or look at different times and do a time lapse too. Can . If you look at his screen where it said 21:00 or whatever time it was. Touch or click on that and a bar will show up that looks like the one to adjust magnitude. You can look for instance . Where Jupiter will be at 3am. And you can do a time lapse through several hours and it accounts for the Earth's rotation and let you know where the object will be. Also if you search for an object in the search bar. Say you want to see what galaxies are visible. Type in galaxy and a list will pop up and by each one like Andromeda. It will say not visible till 2 am. Or if it's already visible it will say. Visible until 5 am. All examples btw. Lol. Same with planets . If you want to view Saturn .. search and and it will tell you what time is the best time for you to view it in the sky at your current location!! Kool stuff. I don't have the plus or paid version. I use the free one. I'm here to see if a one time payment of 20 bucks is worth. He doesnt show anything that is different from the free version tho. Your supposed to get detail high quality pictures of planets and DSOs and different stuff. I don't know. I am very pleased with the free version tbh.

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I'd manually set the time to utc offset. Many states have different time zones, and some Pueblo don't use daylight savings time.

Another year later still using the nexdome? Happy with it? Anything to look at or be aware of after you've had it for a while?

Fun fact: If you open stellarium mobile then search a star called 99 Herculis and point your phone toward the direction of the star, you're facing the apex of the sun way, the direction of our solar system traveling through the Milky Way galaxy. in the case you tilted at an angle on the star, you can calculate the solar system's velocity toward that direction by multiplying the cos(angle) for the solar system speed with respect to the local standard of rest, which is about 230 km/s. I found that pretty cool!

The calibration was very hard for me to figure out thank you

how old are you actually ?

Excellent review and you provided super insights! Thanks! We are proposing an astro dome here on our island. (This nex dome product looks fine; with identified adjustments etc.) Enjoy your cool observing site! Cheers from Newfoundland.

Thank you for the video. I wish you had provided step-by-step instructions on how you reinstalled the Oldham coupler and re-aligned/adjusted the meshing of the worm and crown gears.

Stellarium PLUS no longer have instruments, but "Observing Tools", from which I can only choose "Field of View Simulator" and I get Telrad. No camera settings. Had to activate Telrad, and then hold my finger on Telrad in lower left corner to get into the menu.

of course Stellarium rules on pc and mobiles too i know this so long :) and while you have mobile with gps chip then better for you