An introduction to Star Trackers

[@crisromero6564]

That was a great tutorial on setting up the star tracker. 😃

[@starman1969]

Glad I could help.

[@devon_rjh_photography9349]

Great video Starman, nice to see someone else from the UK! Glad to subscribe :-) got to get myself a tracker when I "hope" Santa brings me a sony A7III ;-)

[@starman1969]

Rob Henley Thanks for watching Rob. I’m doing my bit for the UK lol. I believe all these trackers are still available in some form or other, so plenty to choose from.

[@devon_rjh_photography9349]

@@starman1969 yeah there's not many doing astro in UK apart from Alyn Wallace being one of main ones so nice to see someone else into the hobby :-)

[@starman1969]

Rob Henley Yeah Alyn is a bit of a legend. I’ve met him a couple of times too. Maybe we could do a collaboration and I can nick some of his many subscribers lol.

[@devon_rjh_photography9349]

@@starman1969 you never know lol ;-)

[@ringod123]

They are not discontinued, both the polarie and star adventurer are still widely available.

[@starman1969]

Ok thanks. I wasn’t sure about the IOptron, but I was thinking the Star Adventurer would have been remodelled since this version.

[@ringod123]

yeah the star adventurer is now white and green but exactly the same otherwise i beleive.

[@HritikRC]

Hi! Can you make a video on how to capture transits (for example transits of a planet)? I have a school project coming up and I need help to capture a transit of mercury. Thank you!

[@starman1969]

Hritik RC Stay tuned. With the help of my astronomy club I hope to be covering the transit of Mercury. We hope to get clear weather for the event and I will do my best.

[@HritikRC]

Starman thank you very much!

[@jd.1184]

Which polar scope did you use for the fornax?

[@starman1969]

A Skywatcher HM-5. I think I had to replace the original polar scope after it broke.

[@jd.1184]

@@starman1969 Thank you very much!

[@astrojet9484]

NPF rule, not 500 rule!!!

[@starman1969]

The 500 rule is a little easier to understand. NPF is a bit more technical, but that’s for another video.