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Now that you have
Star Adventurer 2i
set up with your camera gear attached it’s time to
learn how to use the
Star Adventurer mini Console
. This section assumes that you installed
the app on your device. If you have not, please refer back to the section titled
Installing the
Star Adventurer mini Console
.
The main screen of the control app divides
Star Adventurer 2i
’s functions into separate
sections. To select a function just tap on it. There are separate sections for astrophotography
and for different types of time-lapse photography. The app also provides for
Manual Control
of Star Adventurer 2i
, assists you with
Polar Alignment
(see astrophotography section),
and lets you alter
Settings,
such as making a Wi-Fi connection with
Star Adventurer 2i
.
Using Star Adventurer mini Console in APP mode
For
Astrophotography, Star Adventurer 2i
helps you
to conquer the biggest challenge for photography of the
night time sky, which is, precisely offsetting the effects of
Earth's rotation while a sufficiently long exposure of the
night sky is being made.
For
Astro Time-Lapse, Star Adventurer 2i
provides
you a method to create a breathtaking videos of the
sky moving over your location while the challenge in
Astrophotography is also overcome.
For
Regular-Exposure Time-Lapse
, it is the simplest
mode for
Star Adventurer 2i
and a good one for helping
you understand how to set the control options.
Regular-
Exposure Time-Lapse
mode is for capturing time-lapse
videos under daylight or well-lit conditions where long
exposure times are not necessary. In this mode, exposure
settings are set on your camera. The Star
Adventurer
mini Console
pans your camera and sends signals to
trigger the shutter as it creates your time-lapse video.
For
Long-Exposure Time-Lapse, Star Adventurer 2i
controls the exposure time instead of your camera. This
way you can use exposures that exceed 30 seconds,
which are often needed in low light conditions, especially
with small aperture settings on your lens. Whenever you
use
Long-Exposure Time-Lapse
mode, set your shutter
to BULB mode. If it is not set on BULB mode the camera
shutter speed setting will be used instead.
You can make time-lapse videos using
Star Adventurer
2i
to control the shutter only (no panning), or to pan
continuously while firing the shutter of your camera at
intervals set by you. Use the first of these techniques
to produce a time-lapse video from a fixed perspective
and the second to create a time-lapse video in which the
perspective changes as the video is recorded
