Seestar | MAJOR Firmware Update! iOS & Android. v2.0.0 (Firmware version 2.95)

[@MaricopaJeff]

Thanks for your efforts.

[@TheAstroRoom]

Thank you for your support Jeff!

[@johndaley9188]

Clear sky's last night, finally. 7 hour marathon. All new features worked well. Saw your video pop up as I was shutting down. 1AM for you. I'm sure all appreciate you going through the details on the changes. Good job. Thank you.

[@TheAstroRoom]

Thanks John!

[@henribuhagiar9445]

Mosaic mode? That’s what I am waiting for

[@michaeledmonds3027]

Thanks for your video; I'm glad that ZWO continues to refine the SeeStar. I do wish, however, that they'd bring dithering back to enhance stacking. It was available briefly last year, then disappeared in the next update. Take care and clear skies, Michael

[@faizi521]

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[@faizi521]

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[@faizi521]

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[@bobhehmann6666]

I think it is dithering when imaging in Stargazing mode, there just isn't a manual control to enable or disable it - it is always on. Dithers after every 5 image attempts, it doesn't only count saved/stacked images. That's the pause you see in imaging after every 5 attempts.

[@pleaseholdinc]

My favorite of the new features is #9, the filter! I'm going to use that a lot since my best view is toward the NW from my back patio. Thank you for making this great video!

[@TheAstroRoom]

I’m glad you like it and I’m loving that new feature too! Have fun!

[@darwintea]

You are BY far the best at explaining firmware updates! Thanks for doing this and posting them

[@rdiazmartin]

It needs an option to reinitialise whenever you need it.. for example I am having problems with hot pixels for the camera seems to warm up in the course of the session and I have no way to instruct it to retake darks... Custom objects is great no more "unknown" shooting I hope.

[@RoofMonkey911]

Thanks for going over everything! There are a few nice options, but have to agree that I would like to be able to NOT automatically start Imaging

[@johndaley9188]

Sometimes, I want to control the filter (on/off). I now have to stop then restart. Deal breaker, probably not.

[@GenuineUFOs6833]

The advantage of now having the new press only once to open the arm, is that you can't do what I did. I accidentally held the down arrow too long until the arm was nearly closed, causing a lot of what sounded like gear crunching, I had to hold the shutdown button on the back to stop the gears grinding. I've tried photo/video of the Sun and moon and it seems ok. When the skies clear I'll try it on deep sky objects.

[@jakemoore9402]

As always, thank you for covering everything and giving visual examples! Keep up the good videos!

[@TheAstroRoom]

Thank you!

[@johndaley9188]

Filter is one of my favorites. I can't see north or north west. So I always had to check where things were before I got started. North, unfortunately for me, has a lot of stuff out there. I did notice during plate solving (20,40,60,80) a 90 popped up. Maybe that was the auto focus? I'll watch closer next time to see if there are any hints.

[@michaellehmann3325]

Thanks for the good explanations. I ordered my Seestar S50 today. Your explanations are very helpful in advance.👍 Greetings from the westcoast of Northern Germany.

[@TheAstroRoom]

Glad it was helpful! Enjoy your Seestar!

[@bamsemh1]

Can you update the telescope directly through the phone, through wifi/bt connection?

[@SirMopy]

now we need a mosaic mode for (ultra) wide images to get more screen estate.

[@TheAstroRoom]

I mentioned in one of my latest live streams with proof, that ZWO said mosaic will come out sometime towards the end of this year or before. Let’s hope so!

[@MaricopaJeff]

I have had monsoon sky for the last few weeks, but tonight is looking to be clear and I am anxious to use the new features. Thanks for your efforts.

[@Nono_33r]

Hi i have a problem in my s50 when i am in sky atlas And that I'm going to arcturus or any star I only have the go to not synchronise button idk why everyone has this button

[@TheAstroRoom]

You have to manually turn on the sync button in your settings. Check out the other firmware update video that I did and go 5:53 minutes into the video to see how to turn on this feature

[@Nono_33r]

@@TheAstroRoom thx u 🤩😁

[@Bonewerkz]

Mosaic mode is difficult because of the field rotation, i tried it today. With the eq3 Skywatcher i had no issues with the Moon mosaics.

[@justinbaker6146]

Great overview, thanks very much!

[@dthoma128]

Great video! Thanks for the overview. Cant wait for some clear skies and chance to try them out. Here in North Carolina night skies have been mostly cloudy, hazy, and humid ... uggh!

[@TheAstroRoom]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked the video! Clear skies!

[@dallas4269]

maybe im late to realize, but your cursor tracker is the seestar solar filter hahaha, thats awesome

[@dennisrogers6786]

Thanks, well put together, a cool feature maually inputting, so assume it will save it also. that's fantastic

[@alphasxsignal]

Great video

[@dineshnaik8494]

Thank you very much for the step-by-step explanation. Much appreciated.

[@cdlp8131]

WHEN EQUATORIAL MODE WILL BE EASY AND AVAILABLE?

[@kavikmute]

Hello, thank you for making these videos to help explain the new features. Question, why are there 2 different versions of this app? I'm running V1.20.3 created on 7-26-24 and there's a version 2.0.0 from 8-4-24. They both have the same features but some of the screens are arranged differently. Have you seen this yet?

[@TheAstroRoom]

Perhaps the device your running version 1.20 just hasn’t been updated to the new one. Have you tried updating that one to the new firmware yet?

[@kavikmute]

This is the new firmware update. This version of 1.20.3 is the same as your 2.0.0. I just noticed that some of your screens are set up differently than mine. My version was released in July and I think yours was released in August. It's the same new features as your 2.0. I download my updates from a link provided by the ZWO support team that contains all Seestar app updates since it was released last year.

[@TheAstroRoom]

@@kavikmutethe home page screen looks exactly the same with this new update on both android and iOS. This was just recently released a few days ago and the Seestar posted it on all their social media as soon as it was released telling everyone to download version v2.0.0 (Firmware Version: 2.95)

[@kavikmute]

You are correct. I just went to the Google play store and saw the new update. It appears they have moved from the 1.20 series to the 2.0 series of apps. Apparently I was running an unofficial/pre-release version of the new app. I'll be updating both of my devices now. Thanks for the information

[@TheDigitalMD]

Good video, but I would say there's nothing major here, just some nice tweaks to the user interface. What people are really clamoring for is a automatic schedule for shooting multiple targets in a session and a mosaic feature to image a larger FOV in star gazing mode. THat would be a major update.

[@TheAstroRoom]

I normally talk about future updates during my live streams. ZWO has said those 2 things are in their development plan. Mosaic is due for this year.

[@matthewmansfield3817]

Great tutorial thankyou but i Can not see the point of this update. Found I had to stop to refocus and then start again which wasted about 5 minutes.

[@TheAstroRoom]

A lot are not happy with the auto focus and are letting ZWO know. Let’s hope they fix this soon. The more ppl that share feedback about this the better.

[@gonzalodiaz464]

Muchas gracias! Es un gran aporte los subtitulo al español. No entiendo todavia por que no sacaron el lenguaje español en la aplicación. En fin,. Siempre es bueno que actualicen.. A probar las novedades ahora!

[@TheAstroRoom]

Si sería una gran ayuda para muchos si ponen la aplicación en español!

[@gerrywalsh914]

A terrific service you provide to us Seestar-ers! One suggestion; Not to 'swish(!?) the 'cursor' around the screen when you are explaining........Keep up the great work!

[@Chiclets1]

Filter is the best part of this update.

[@pinkfloydvk]

Wow it looks like they when to town with this update.

[@SVI_999]

In my opinion a failed update. Losing control of the tube movement, automatic star imaging creating folders that are not needed, for instance when we want yo focus a brilliant star to focus with Bahtinov mask or syncing. And I missed needed update like mosaics or separate the restart, continue and cancel options when we pause that image taking (with gloves is so easy to push restart instead of continue ruining a session. I hope that they will fix all of this

[@TheAstroRoom]

A lot are not happy with some of those new features, specially that auto focus and they are letting ZWO know. Let’s hope they fix this soon. The more ppl that share feedback to them about this the better. I mentioned in one of my latest live streams with proof, that ZWO said mosaic will come out sometime towards the end of this year or before. Let’s hope so!

[@NGC008]

Nice one, thanks for sharing.

[@redrocklead]

Oh that rules out me buying it. Ripped jeans technology. Effing things up doesnt make them better.

[@Chiclets1]

Where are the Mosaic and Equatorial modes???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@TheAstroRoom]

In my latest live stream I showed proof that ZWO recently said mosaic is coming for the second half of this year. So anytime between this fall and winter I assume.

[@richardkellar9259]

BTW you are COMPLETELY WRONG! It does NOT focus AT ALL! The images were TERRIBLE!!! I can NOT believe they have TOTALLY removed any hope of tweaking the focus! I am VERY unhappy! If you look in settings you can re-enable auto focus BUT, it kinda sucked anyway. ZWO….bring back our ability to tweak the focus or, I might have to sell and buy something better!

[@TheAstroRoom]

I mentioned at one point that I had to stop the auto focus and restart the focus on my own because the auto one did not do well. I showed proof of it. A lot are not happy with this and are letting ZWO know. Let’s hope they fix this soon

[@mkaufer05]

I do not know why they added all the planets to be able to view when you can only view jupiter and Saturn and even then its too tiny and blurry to see it well.

[@TheAstroRoom]

I understand where you’re coming from. I think for some users it’s just the ability to be able to see something that’s so far away, even if all we can see is a dot. At least for me, I think that’s kinda cool still 😅

[@dennisrogers6786]

The older firmware and app it never found the moon. With the new firmware and app it now finds the moon

[@septopus3516]

thanks you convinced me not to buy

[@jacobkluza_W3]

the update is garbage .... i dont know why they keep making things worse for EQ users

[@johndaley9188]

Filter is one of my favorites. I can't see north or north west. So I always had to check where things were before I got started. North, unfortunately for me, has a lot of stuff out there. I did notice during plate solving (20,40,60,80) a 90 popped up. Maybe that was the auto focus? I'll watch closer next time to see if there are any hints.

[@TheAstroRoom]

Interesting! I’ll be looking out for that now too

[@johndaley9188]

@TheAstroRoom Back at it again. It went 20, 40, 60, 80, 90, then 99. Autofocus is later. So, what's happening at 90 and 99? No clue. Yet.

[@TheAstroRoom]

@@johndaley9188 thanks for the update, I definitely want to check this out as soon as I can image

[@TheAstroRoom]

@@johndaley9188 at first I thought it was the altitude in degrees as it’s plate solving but once you said 99 it doesn’t sound like it anymore. Hmm…