Star Adventurer Shutter Control Cable For 1100D

[smithn00]

I have recently purchased a Star Adventurer mount. I need to buy a cable to connect my Canon 1100D to the mount.  The owners manual sites two cables but not which camera they fit.

AP-R1C(CANON C1)

AP-R3C(CANON C3)

Any Star Adventurers out there?

[astroman133]

Ned,

 

I am not familiar with that mount. Why do you want to connect your DSLR to it?

[admin]

The Star Adventurer has a built-in intervalometer... their web site does not even have the 1100D specified as a supported model.  You should ask the manufacturer and remove any doubts.

 

http://ca.skywatcher.com/_english/02_mounts/02_detail.php?sid=68

 

Guylain

[s3igell]

The Mount's Intervalometer function is redundant to the Capture Plan function of BYE's Image Capture mode.

[astroman133]

According to the listed accessories for the 1100D/T3 on the Canon web site, it will use the RS-60E3 remote shutter.  That means that it should work with the Canon (E3)
SKU: 92106 cable, as listed on the Star Adventurer product page.  I would definitely confirm this with the vendor from whom you purchase the cable.

 

Of course you know that this is the site and group for BYE and BYN. You should also know that you will be giving up a lot of very useful capability if you choose to use an interval timer, whether integral to or independent of the mount, to control your camera instead of BYE on a PC. Features like LiveView Frame & Focus, polar alignment assistance, 5X Zoom Planetary imaging, Bahtinov mask focusing enhancements, on-screen image review, stored capture plans, and ASCOM device control are only some of the major capabilities that BYE has to offer.

[smithn00]

According to the listed accessories for the 1100D/T3 on the Canon web site, it will use the RS-60E3 remote shutter.  That means that it should work with the Canon (E3)

SKU: 92106 cable, as listed on the Star Adventurer product page.  I would definitely confirm this with the vendor from whom you purchase the cable.

 

Of course you know that this is the site and group for BYE and BYN. You should also know that you will be giving up a lot of very useful capability if you choose to use an interval timer, whether integral to or independent of the mount, to control your camera instead of BYE on a PC. Features like LiveView Frame & Focus, polar alignment assistance, 5X Zoom Planetary imaging, Bahtinov mask focusing enhancements, on-screen image review, stored capture plans, and ASCOM device control are only some of the major capabilities that BYE has to offer.

Yes I have BYE and use it in my observatory. I want the Sky Adventurer for grab and go situations with local horizon in the picture.

Thanks for the cable info.

[Photosbykev]

imho the Star Adventurer implimentation for astro/timelapse photography is serious lacking in flexibility. Limited to less than 30 seconds/exposure, large gap between captures, no options to change anything etc etc, horrible afterthought by Skywatcher imo.

 

Personally I use a normal intervalometer which does have all the flexibility required for basic astro work and then BYE for more serious astro style photography. Although I'm now playing with a very small win8.1 tablet that can run all the normal astro image capture programmes for me which will replace the simple intervalometer when I build up confidence in the new toy

 

regards

Kev