Working Duration: About 3 hours at 20 degrees C (68 F) temperature, with use of Alkaline batteries; About 20 hours with an external power supply battery. Operating Environment for Application Software: OS: Android 4.4 and over or iOS 9.9 and over; Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11b/g; Data Encryption Method: WPA2-PSK

Using a 150mm lens on a cropped sensor DSLR camera we started to see star-trailing after 60 seconds, despite revisiting our polar alignment. On first impressions, the overall build is of very good quality, although the polarscope's illuminator could do with an upgrade. The scope's red light mode is effective in preserving night vision.

Capacity

The POLARIE U works with 4 AA batteries. In addition, it is equipped with a USB (USB Type-C) external power supply port and works with commer When you see beautiful things, you may want to take a photo to keep the image. Why not record the beauty of the starry night sky? Power: Four AA batteries, Ni-MH or Ni-Cd rechargeable batteries, or USB Type-C external power batteries Third, a red dot on a flash shoe would make things easier, both for alignment and for aiming the camera. They’re not expensive. Lights on the mount highlight which ‘Mode’ is selected (there is no LCD screen). This makes identification at night straightforward.

For my experience, a 3-way tilt and pan head or a geared head is better than a ball head to mount the Polarie on the tripod, as you will have more control when polar aligning the mount. For the camera, a ball head is great.Something that would work stand-alone and independent of my laptop if necessary. (I really didn't want to carry my personal laptop, a work laptop, plus everything else as much as I was hopping planes.) Simple setup and teardown due to time constraints. four times that of the previous model. This achieves a great improvement in loading capacity successfully in spite of the weight reduction by 20%. * 1 Im not sure if my stuff is not faulty in some way – at least the fine tune knobs, but i needed to fine tune the alignment in every 5 shots. Which is of course exhausting. Note: Im using it with a Skywatcher ED72 APO + 0.85x reductor/corrector, so the whole stuff is around its limit (with all the equipment it is around 4kg with the counterwieght) – which means the mech need to work heavily. The maximum loading weight will be increased to 6.5kg/14 lbs (approx. 2.5kg/5.5 lbs at 10cm from the center of rotation) if a POLARIE Multi

R.A. Slow Motion Control: Wheel and worm gears full circle micro movement; 58.4mm in diameter, 144-tooth, made of aluminum alloy The housing of the Polarie U is plastic, but it feels very rigid and robust and doesn’t flex when pressed. Refine the polar alignment by centering Polaris (or σ-Octans) in the field of view of the Polar Sight Hole Once the Zygo test report has been completed, the optical alignment is thoroughly tested and tuned to ensure they are spot on before they leave us. If you want to make 60+ sec expo with it, you need to fine tune polar alignment at every step when you set up – because almost impossible to strength them properly not to move under such weight.

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Optional accessory: A dedicated polar axis scope for Polarie, Polar Meter for Polarie and the Time Lapse Adapter. The Polarie U provides the ability to stop the motion of a camera during exposure when shooting in time-lapse and then to start the motion of the camera again when the exposure finishes. This is useful as a time-lapse rotator so you can create better quality images in every single shot in the day or night. The Polarie can follow the Moon and Sun in addition to long exposure astrophotography (the latter usefulfor solar eclipses), and its half-speed feature allows motion time-lapses at night. You’ve seen those awesome wide-angle Milky Way photos, sometimes with a building or a tree in the foreground. They’re great, right? Want to take one yourself? I’ve taken a few in my time, but never really nailed it. Star trails look nice, but if you don’t want them, it’s awful. The Vixen Polarie can help with that.

This is extremely useful for beginner astrophotographers who don’t know where to find deep-sky objects in the night sky. Using the dedicated SynScan Pro mobile app, users can select from a large database of targets (Messier, NGC, IC catalogs), and the mount will automatically point to the target for you.See and buy Vixen Optics including telescopes, binoculars and accessories at our Hertfordshire UK based showroom, or buy online with Free Mainland UK delivery. on the POLAREI U and a tripod, you will be able to produce works of beautiful starry skies in an image with pinpoint stars. We mounted the Polarie, via the supplied adjustable wedge, onto our own Manfrotto #132 tripod using a standard 3/8-inch tripod bush; a 1/4-inch bush and a removal tool are also included in the kit.