Post #3545577

2026-07-02 08:19 UTC

The weather forecast is promising two completely clear nights in a row so I made sure to get home just as it got dark and quickly set up my telescope. I already had a plan ready for it to execute so it should now run for the rest of the night fully automatically. #Astrophotography #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #ThirtyMillimetreTelescope #TMMT

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@spacelizard@aus.social 2026-07-02 10:30

Oh, neat. If you have your Seestar connected to your home WiFi in "Station Mode" you can just connect to its internal storage over the network using Samba. So, if sufficiently keen, you can make a start on processing the images while its still outside taking more images. I am experimenting a bit this evening. In addition to my 3D printed lens baffle (which might be especially useful given there's a basically full Moon out there) I'm using my 3D printed tripod powerbank holder, and I'm also trying out using 60 second exposures instead of 30 seconds. If I can use 60 second exposures without getting too much trailing it would be good, as it would halve the number of individual images I need to handle and would also increase overall signal to noise ratio a bit too.

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