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Question: As it possible to mount a finderscope directly onto the Skywatcher (to assist with astrophotography)?  No telescope, just a DSLR with telephoto lens.
Document: The second causes each row of exposures to be offset from the one above and below it by about a half a frame. While it is possible to manually add control points so that the software can stitch the exposures, it could easily take 40 hours to do an 800-1000 exposure panorama.The defects show up anytime that you use a telephoto lens with a field of view (FOV) of less than about 3.5 degrees (equivalent to about a 200mm lens and longer).
If you are thinking of using this panoramic head as a standalone head to make panoramas, you will be disappointed. I purchased this product in April of this year for the purpose of taking large (gigapixel) panoramas with my DSLR and telephoto lens. After some initial frustration with using it for panoramas, I discovered via some postings on an internet forum that the panorama software shipping with the panoramic head had major software defects and that an updated version was available.
For well less than what I would have paid for a Gigapan mount, I got all the functionality of a gigapan mount plus a great mount for night photography. This thing is easy to set up and super easy to align. It's even possible to configure the rails in such a way as to have a primary camera mounted in portrait mode and a secondary lighter either point-and-shoot or phone clip either for journaling shots or star tracking phone apps.
But if you're like me and do mostly landscape photography, the added weight of a laptop in addition to the head and tripod (14.6 Lbs.) plus a 12 volt battery, a camera and a big telephoto lens is a bit much to pack on a trail. The laptop battery life also limits you to one large panorama (about 90 minutes for 1000 exposures).
I read all the other reviews that mentioned it didn't do this or that or it was too hard, etc. I've had it now for about two months and it does everything it mentioned. I gave it only four stars because the instructions were a bit confusing on putting the camera mount together and it doesn't track the sky all that precise.
The SkyWatcher all view has great potential! Can't wait for a clear night to set up my scope to watch the total eclipse of the moon April 14 thru 15.
Works great for gigapixel panoramas, very precise, very smooth. I have created 2.5Gpx+ scenes with this mount. It has a slightly steep learning curve but once you get your head around how it operates it can produce some very good panoramas.Also, there is a firmware upgrade for both the controller and the mount itself. The update increases the accuracy and the number of points that can be shot in each pano. There are also some useful bug fixes.
in 2013 we're using serial ports on hardware?) . Great, so I have to go borrow someone's windows machine or go buy an adapter, to upgrade firmware, which may or may not fix my issue. Right now I'm debating about throwing this back in the box and sending it back to China where it came from ...Update...I called them, they said, yea, you need to update the firmware.
You will need a cable that matches your camera to sacrifice its connector, but with that in hand its a simple matter of splicing together the included camera cable with your own connector. For Nikon cables, connect the shutter and focus wires together on the same wire on the included cable, and connect the ground to the other. On Nikon cameras this will force the camera to focus for every shot, just like a full press of the shutter button.
You have to go dig up a 10 volt DC power that can power it up. I guess they assume we have a few laying around waiting to be used. They don't supply that. So I go to radio shack and buy one. I come back, power it up, connect it to the serial port, and it doesn't connect. I google the issue, it says make sure the cable is plugged in (check) and no other processes are using the port (check).This thing stinks.
Answer: I use a Canon 60D with a variety of lenses on the Skywatcher All-View.   Typically, I have a 300mm telephoto and add a 2x extender.   I have no problem using the two-star alignment feature with the live view on the camera.  I align the first star at 300mm by centering in the LCD screen and then move up to 600mm and recenter and focus. Then I move to the second star at 600mm and align that one.   This has proven to be very accurate permitting one minute exposures, sometimes longer if I am careful.  I will often redo this procedure if I start seeing star trails.   I have never needed a finder scope instead of the camera, but it should be possible to just clamp a finder along with the camera depending on how large your camera is.