Downloading images from the Seestar and elongated photo

Fid

I received my Seestar S50 yesterday. Set up was easy.

Today I did a quick solar session. I took three videos and a still photo . The still photo was elongated, more like an egg. Why is that?

The videos were all nicely circular, well exposed and focused, but of course not stacked as far as I can see.. I also took a raw file.

How do I download the raw file for post processing?

PMTeam@ZWO

Fid
1 Could you send us the elongated image and report bug & log in Me-Settings?
2 You can connect Seestar to your PC via USB cable.

Fid

I would send the images if I could actuallu see them.

The manual does not mention where they get stored once published and I cannot seem to send them to myself or store them on my phone. I have to ASIair and there is no issue in retrieving images, but the Seestar is not clear on where those images are or go to.

PMTeam@ZWO

You can see images in the Seestar album.
JPG will be saved in the My Works and fits file, and avi files will be saved in the Seestar file.

SFvuumPp

Hi ZWO, I'm testing the Seestar S50 and I'm a bit confused about downloading the files. My MP4 and jpeg images end up on my smartphone in the DCIM folder (\DCIM\com.zwo.seestar) - I couldn't find a backup of thes files on the Seestar when using my PC. Are jpeg and mp4 files directly downloaded to the smartphone without backup on the Seestar?

When connecting via PC (USB-C) I could see a solar AVI file I took (this is RAW i guess). It isn't yet debayered, i used BGGR on autostakkert! to get the correct "bayer" colors. Is that also correct? Thanks.

Cheers,

Wido.

PMTeam@ZWO

SFvuumPp Are jpeg and mp4 files directly downloaded to the smartphone without backup on the Seestar?

Yes. Seestar only saves RAW files(avi and fits).

SFvuumPp When connecting via PC (USB-C) I could see a solar AVI file I took (this is RAW i guess). It isn't yet debayered, i used BGGR on autostakkert! to get the correct "bayer" colors. Is that also correct? Thanks.

Try GRBG.

PhB76

Hi ZWO
When connecting via a PC (USB-C), I only have the MyWork directory. In the repository of the observed object, I only have 2 files stacked in Fit and Jpg.
Where the various 10s exposures are stored
Thanks
Philippe

Andy_B

PhB76 What was the answer Philippe ?

juliankit

Hello,
same issue here, I took the photo and video to the Sun, however no fits or mp4 on interna seestar memory, when connected to the PC.
The video and photo made in Scenery mode are saved correctly to seestar internal memory.

AstroNet@ZWO

juliankit You can try transferring files via WiFi. https://h5.seestar.com/course/2750

juliankit

also via wifi the raw files were not available.
after I switched to timelaps mode, make a raw capture, then switch back to video or photo mode, the raw option was available and I was able to capture raw data.

Thank you! Is a joy to have this instrument!Last night was beautiful and worked fine, easy to lock the targets!I have also an 80ed and C8, but seestar is complimentary tool!
An idea is to provide you power station with red light for it!

Vesku

I don't understand why users send pictures taken with other devices to the Seestar program because it burdens the program and gives a wrong picture of the device's features?

pgrabienski

Hi all,
my Seestar went through a FW upgrade (new version is 2.48) and I took some pictures last night. As usual I connected the unit to my PC this morning via USB and all of a sudden it reported an "unrecognized file system" and asked me whether to format it. Of course I did not.... when I take a look to the Seestar via the App all pictures are there safe and sound.

Next I followed the advice in https://h5.seestar.com/course/2750 to download via WiFi but once I put in \10.0.0.1 (that was the IP address mentioned) it asked me for a userid/password combination which I don't have.

Any further advice how to get the pictures downloaded?
Or is there a bug in the new FW?

Daemn42

pgrabienski It isn't always 10.0.0.1 Try this on your PC instead \\seestar
As for USB connection, try different cable and port. Usually when I see that unrecognized filesystem thing it's actually a USB cabling or port problem.

pgrabienski

Daemn42
Well, depending on whether you use station mode or not the IP addresses are different. I used the one which was displayed on the Seestar's network info.
Anyway, I succeeded by entering zwo/admin into the the userid/password field (don't know whether this really matters) and got access. Your \seestar alternative works the same way.
Well, I would believe into your USB cable theory but the identical cable worked before while it does not now. Thanks for the pointer though, I'll get me another cable and try again.