0:02 Hello everybody welcome back to another
0:03 video here on my Channel about the
0:07 Celestron origin tonight we've got just
0:09 passed a first quarter of moon on our
0:11 hands and that is going to present us
0:13 with an opportunity to try out the
0:16 Celestron origin on the moon now of
0:18 course we know that the Celestron origin
0:20 is capable of capturing photos of the
0:22 Moon of course with its large aperture
0:24 and decent resolution camera on the
0:27 front but I have never done this before
0:30 I know many new origin users may not
0:32 have ever explored photographing the
0:35 moon yet with theirs so why don't we go
0:37 through this together and learn how to
0:39 take a photo of the Moon just some
0:41 things really quickly that I read in the
0:43 manual though for doing lunar
0:47 photography is if your exposure is under
0:49 1 second long which obviously the moon
0:51 at f2 we're going to really have to
0:54 bring down that brightness our exposure
0:56 is definitely going to be under the 1
0:59 second threshold we need to use Snapshot
1:02 mode what the manual from Celestron
1:04 suggests basically this is where we are
1:07 going to take the iPad we're going to
1:09 convert it into snapshot mode I do
1:11 believe we have to initialize the
1:13 telescope first once it gets a little
1:16 bit darker so that the tracking accuracy
1:19 is relevant to us because if I just
1:20 power it on right now and send it over
1:22 to the moon it's not going to track it
1:24 for us which is going to present even
1:26 bigger headaches trying to keep the moon
1:28 centered and do all of the camera
1:30 controls all at the same time on on the
1:32 iPad will probably be a little bit
1:33 cumbersome so we have to wait till it
1:36 gets dark to do the initialization but
1:39 I'm really curious how good the origins
1:42 lunar shots Look Tonight on the
1:44 Terminator that is the line between the
1:46 dark and the bright part of the Moon we
1:48 have sunrise on the crater cernus which
1:50 is one of my favorites to look at so I'm
1:52 going to grab my iPad we got to wait for
1:54 it to get dark and I'll see you in just
1:56 a moment [Music]
2:05 all right it's finally dark enough I've
2:08 got the origin finished with its
2:10 initialization procedure for the night
2:13 and we are ready to start off with going
2:16 to the moon and we need to activate the
2:18 snapshot mode and I'll show you how to
2:19 do that here I'm going to do a screen
2:21 recording of the iPad so you can see it
2:23 right here so we can follow along
2:26 together now one of the things to note
2:30 about this is that the origin does not
2:33 have a moon specific mode like something
2:35 like the sea star and some of the other
2:38 smart telescopes do where it can
2:40 successfully go to the moon and
2:43 recalibrate the camera real fast and say
2:45 okay I know exactly I'm on the center of
2:48 the Moon the origin has an issue with
2:51 being able to dim that camera down
2:53 without the use of snapshot mode which
2:56 we'll get into here in just a second so
2:59 we can do successful go-to the origin
3:00 will put the Moon somewhere in the
3:02 camera field of view or at least it
3:04 should and then we should be able to
3:06 activate snapshot mode and get all of
3:07 the other settings and parameters in
3:11 place for us to take a decent Moon shot
3:13 so we're going to go on the star map
3:15 here right now we're on NF which is a
3:18 start up in Pegasus and we're going to
3:20 select the moon and we're going to hit
3:26 slew origin's going to move its way down
3:28 to the moon or where we think the Moon
3:31 is we can see on our little live view
3:33 here in the corner as we approach the
3:36 Moon it should get really bright like it
3:39 is now the origin is giving us the error
3:42 that the origin cannot find Enough stars
3:44 that's simply because like I said it
3:46 doesn't have a lunar dedicated mode to
3:49 be able to decipher the Moon versus the
3:50 plate solving technology that it's
3:52 trying to do every time it locates a
3:55 Target so we'll just hit okay and the
3:57 Moon is in there if we pull up the live
3:59 view you can see the moon is there with the
4:00 the
4:03 ridiculously Overexposed Moon and what
4:06 we're going to have to do is hit the
4:08 little up arrow and we're going to have
4:09 to click on
4:13 Snapshot and enable snapshot
4:16 mode and there we go now the Moon looks
4:18 uh pretty normal let's go back here and
4:21 adjust some of these parameters here so the
4:21 the
4:25 exposure looks like one millisecond is
4:28 what uh is applicable for the moon if we
4:30 increase this you can see the Moon
4:32 gradually increases in brightness this
4:35 would be useful if you wanted to use the
4:36 origin for something like a lunar
4:39 eclipse uh you'd be able to use the
4:42 origin in that way and kind of expose it
4:44 a little longer to reveal maybe more of
4:46 the red colors during a total linear
4:49 Eclipse but for now uh 1 millisecond is
4:52 what we're going to go with the iso I
4:54 assume is the lowest which it is at 100
4:58 which is good and the focus should be uh
5:00 the same Focus that it focused for your
5:03 stars earlier in the initialization
5:07 process so no issues there and on the
5:11 left and right here we see the icons for
5:13 the telescope control so you can Center
5:16 up the moon in the field of view here um
5:18 it does seem to be tracking the moon
5:20 which is good news that once you're done
5:21 with the initialization it will at least
5:23 track the moon for you so that's at
5:27 least a thumbs up for me um I would like
5:29 to see a dedicated lunar mode though so
5:31 when it goes over to the Moon it darkens
5:34 that camera ISO and is able to kind of
5:36 sort of plate solve sort of that the
5:38 Moon is in the center but I'm sure
5:40 there's all kinds of stuff in the works
5:42 for software so let's Center up the moon
5:47 here unfortunately I think that this is
5:49 at full speed no matter what so we're
5:53 going to have to make very small
5:57 adjustments to the way we uh Center up
6:01 the moon here and uh what we can do is
6:03 we're going to hit capture
6:06 image and that's going to take a single
6:09 shot of the moon for
6:12 us and we can see there there's the the
6:14 live view that's good I'm going to save
6:18 it but pretty much that is how we
6:20 capture photos of the Moon with the
6:22 origin for right now there is no ability
6:25 to do video mode to so we could take it
6:28 later and stack it uh because the origin
6:31 allows you to save files and everything
6:33 but we can't do that yet in terms of the
6:36 lunar stuff so uh maybe that is
6:38 something that we can all suggest to
6:40 Celestron and see if they can put into
6:43 this software but uh as for right now
6:45 here is the result of our Imaging with
6:48 the origin on the lunar surface I hope
6:50 you enjoyed this video I'll see you next
6:52 time as I have a lot more origin stuff
6:56 coming up clear skies as always [Music]
