Most recent update disappointing
After the most recent update, when I periodically check my capture on the dwarf mini, the app gets stuck, it looks like capture has stopped, but if I force close and re open the app it works fine again. But this is really annoying to do, as it used to work fine. Please can you fix?
Not intuitive to use
I find it very frustrating to navigate, buried menus and somethings I find impossible to locate. It’s also very slow to connect to my iPhone 15. I am brand new to this, so I guess it could be just me, but have been a keen photographer for 25 years and wouldn’t describe myself as a Luddite.
Excellent App But…
This is an excellent app to work and operate your D3 or Mini.
I have almost no issues with this app but there is one thing that is annoying. The new watermarks are good but cover too much of the image, if you have an image that covers most of the screen. Yes, there are several to choose from but why have a huge white footer when the majority of the image is black. Or a huge black footer that covers almost a fifth of the screen.
Why couldn’t you leave the former watermark as an option, so we can split the text to the left and right with a transparent footer and not a huge white or black zero transparency block?
I have to mark this down to three stars, as these new watermarks are horrible. Please do something about it.
I have almost no issues with this app but there is one thing that is annoying. The new watermarks are good but cover too much of the image, if you have an image that covers most of the screen. Yes, there are several to choose from but why have a huge white footer when the majority of the image is black. Or a huge black footer that covers almost a fifth of the screen.
Why couldn’t you leave the former watermark as an option, so we can split the text to the left and right with a transparent footer and not a huge white or black zero transparency block?
I have to mark this down to three stars, as these new watermarks are horrible. Please do something about it.
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It just keeps getting Worse
I originally left a review about how useless the app is due to connectivity issues, not only are they worse, sometimes taking up to 45 minutes to get a connection, but now EQ mode and the initial calibration seems to not work either. In there most recent update, instead of addressing these issues, they decided to add an AI assistant. When fine tuning EQ mode, it just asks you to do the same thing over and over again. And when it doesn’t, the app will either crash, or the eq setup will cancel and restart. When the calibration starts to lock on a target, it will look for at least 2 minutes and not find it. I’ve been using this for a year in the exact same spot, there is no reason why this stuff just doesn’t work anymore.
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Great Software addition to fantastic Hardware
This app gets consistent updates with new features and some bug fixes included. These are largely made up from community feedback, with a rich and helpful community supporting these great devices.
Fantastic captures with great post-processing tools. The tools and configuration is simple to use and always improving.
Fantastic captures with great post-processing tools. The tools and configuration is simple to use and always improving.
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Völlig unintuitiv
Diese App hat so ziemlich das schlechteste User Experience Design, das ich bisher erlebt habe. Ich versuche irgendein Objekt zu fotografieren, das gerade besonders gut zu sehen ist und der Weg dorthin ist hart und steinig. Bin ich erstmal so weit gekommen herauszufinden, wie ich ein solches Objekt in der App überhaupt finde, ist kaum nachvollziehbar, was das Gerät nun tut , wenn ich es fotografieren möchte, und vor allem ob das Gerät überhaupt etwas tut. Möchte ich irgendwann die Aktion abbrechen - wie stoppe ich das und schalte das Gerät aus?! Ich bin drauf und dran mein Dwarf3 nach dem ersten Versuch direkt wieder zurückzusenden. Schlechter geht‘s nicht.
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Ok
Ok so far
This telescope is so bad
It has been freezing on me Flashing white stop tracking and I can’t even take a picture of the sky. All I could take a picture of is the sun and moon.
Nice but….
No Google Maps/open Maps Support to Plan in Atlas
Fantastic little device!!
First of all, you’re i’m buying a relatively inexpensive little device, not a multi thousand dollar telescope. The company has made massive moves forward to keep making the device and software better. Great great quality for the price and a company that truly cares about the consumer.
Cannot even set it up
To set up, it requires logging in but to log in it wants a firmware update first. Cant do the update without logging in first. An entire day wasted trouble shooting and still have a brick that doesnt work
As good as it gets
Dwarflab and this app does everything I want out of my mini and then some, very capable and I have owned 6 smart scopes. And they just keep adding more at no cost to us, now thats called a real deal with unreal results, ya think
No Promised Improvement, Refuses to Connect
This update was supposed to improve connection a reduce problems, in fact connection problems are much worse now, it requires or resets the WiFi password over and over and will not connect to the telescope to show the new features. Don’t update if you can possibly help it.
Dwarf Mini
Awesome bit of kit!
Still feels unfinished
Eq mode only calibrates in the dark so there’s no pre setting up the dwarf or using schedule. Schedule is broken anyway. Timelapse is a format iPhone and Android can’t view…
So 10:30 rolls around and you still have to focus, align eq, create darks, physically touch the lens to rotate and remove cap after darks, re calibrate eq because you don’t trust it after you did darks and touched the lens, /re locate a target, focus again, now it’s 11:45 and you might get something red if you leave it for the night with some lines running through your photo.
Why anyone would have to physically “rotate the camera and face it towards the sky” when it’s a motorized unit confuses me and always throws off alignments.
I feel like I’m the beta tester for the next model.
So 10:30 rolls around and you still have to focus, align eq, create darks, physically touch the lens to rotate and remove cap after darks, re calibrate eq because you don’t trust it after you did darks and touched the lens, /re locate a target, focus again, now it’s 11:45 and you might get something red if you leave it for the night with some lines running through your photo.
Why anyone would have to physically “rotate the camera and face it towards the sky” when it’s a motorized unit confuses me and always throws off alignments.
I feel like I’m the beta tester for the next model.
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Good Quality, minor tracking issues, atlas QoL update suggestions
The app itself can be mildly clunky at times, but not that insane. I'd call it decent quality overall. The camera itself works good, especially for the price. It does, unfortunately, struggle to track Azimuth objects like Pinwheel or M13 though, it works much better on lower large sky objects. I've taken numerous good quality image stacks under rural skies between city and town light domes. I also wish DL would give us a "manual" auto tracking mode. I haven't found one if there is, and what I mean is that after I point it at a random section of sky, we can set the camera to auto-track that random section. Regardless, the DWARF 3 is definitely worth the buy and I would definitely recommend to any person wanting to give deep sky imaging a run. The Atlas is nice to, because I can use other apps to find an object and then search it in the atlas. I would also like it if DL would consider adding a cardinal (North, South, East, West) directional indicator for their Atlas objects. Right now the Atlas only gives degrees. A direction indicator could save some time for amateurs who are learning the sky and let them disregard objects that might be behind trees or buildings they are near.
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Won’t connect
Have to forget my wifi to connect, and then I can’t login to stellar studio.
Schlecht
Erkennt oftmals die Objekte nicht. Verbindung zum Handy braucht sehr sehr lange.
Decent app
Works well with my Dwarf 3, can position the telescope/Camera outside on my balcony & easily connect to the app inside my home.
App is fairly easy to use with a few hours practice & it has a nice interface which works well on iPad & iPhone. Tutorials for the app can easily be found on YouTube or just ask A.I. if you need help.
I only use it for wildlife photography & have got some great shots of wild birds & squirrels within a few days of use.
Would definitely recommend, can’t understand all of the negative reviews.
Great app 👍
App is fairly easy to use with a few hours practice & it has a nice interface which works well on iPad & iPhone. Tutorials for the app can easily be found on YouTube or just ask A.I. if you need help.
I only use it for wildlife photography & have got some great shots of wild birds & squirrels within a few days of use.
Would definitely recommend, can’t understand all of the negative reviews.
Great app 👍
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App is WORTHLESS
Smart telescope works fine, SOME of the app works fine too, but all goes off the rails when trying to edit or do anything with the photos. I try to create an account and the app keeps telling me “security verification failed” with my phone number and email address. They have 1 day to fix this or I’m deleting the app, returning the smart telescope and getting a SEESTAR instead. What a waste of time!
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