NebulinkSeestar Edition
How-to series
Start with the 17-minute Features Tour for the big picture. Then each short video takes about three minutes and walks through one part of the app, step by step: watch them in order, or pick a group below to find the one you need. New videos go up on the Nebulink YouTube channel.
Start here · 16:54
A long, relaxed walk through the whole app, page by page, including the newest additions: lists and the weather map, Storm guard, the dark library, the Moon map, Star party mode, Enhance and voice commands. Watch it first for the big picture, then use the short videos below for the detail.
Video 00 · 1:44
Set up your Seestar on your home Wi-Fi with the Seestar app. Why station mode helps, the steps from the Me tab to Station Mode, switching your phone back, and finding the Seestar in Nebulink.
Video 1 · 3:12
Install Nebulink, set up the connection key once, find your Seestars on the network, and learn your way around the pages.
Video 2 · 2:52
See what's worth imaging tonight, read a target card, check the weather, and take a first picture with one click in Quick start.
Video 3 · 3:05
Let Nebulink Whiz plan a whole night in five steps: pick the night, your interests and targets, shape the timeline, and start it.
Video 4 · 2:59
Line up targets by hand in the Planner, frame each one, drag them on the timeline, and set up mosaics, projects and your horizon.
Video 5 · 3:20
Point the scope from the star chart, watch the stack, focus and drive it in Live view, level the tripod and polar align.
Video 6 · 2:45
Bring the night's pictures home from the Album, free up the Seestar, and finish a stack with Enhance, AI processing, crop and share.
Video 7 · 2:40
Get a message on your phone when the night needs you, use Nebulink from your phone, and keep it updated and backed up.
Video 8 · 2:39
Run the check-up, read last night explained, ask Nebulink (typed or out loud), and send your log to support.
Video 9 · 2:47
Mark the trees and roofs around the spot where your Seestar stands, right from Live view, so Best targets, Nebulink Whiz and the Planner only pick targets it can really see.
Video 10 · 2:16
Plan your night with the Seestar switched off: set your location for planning, and Best targets and the weather follow that place. Plus what Nebulink says when a Seestar doesn't answer.
Video 11 · 3:10
Find the best night of the month for any target, put a night or tonight's plan in your calendar, save the places you image from, and make the acquisition-details file AstroBin imports.
Video 12 · 3:07
New in Nebulink 2.2.9: a one-picture sheet of tonight's sky for your club, six weeks of sky events, a watch on your focus and dew while you stack, and a horizon scan the Seestar does by itself.
Video 13 · 2:42
New in Nebulink 2.2.10: build your Seestar's dark library from Nebulink, see which exposures and temperatures it already has covered, let every plan end with fresh darks, and copy the masterdarks to your PC.
Video 14 · 2:46
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: while a plan runs, Nebulink watches the National Weather Service warnings and NOAA's rain radar for your scope's place. When a storm comes it stops the stack, closes the arm, warns your phone, and carries on once the storm has passed. In Germany it uses the Deutscher Wetterdienst's warnings and radar.
Video 15 · 2:16
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: when the National Weather Service has a watch or warning for your Seestar's place, a line appears across the top of every page: red for severe ones, amber for the rest. Open the details to read the whole warning; severe ones also go to your phone. In Germany the warnings come from the Deutscher Wetterdienst.
Video 16 · 2:06
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: before a plan starts, Nebulink checks whether your Seestar's battery will last the whole plan, asks first if it probably won't, and learns how fast your own Seestar's battery goes down.
Video 17 · 2:05
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: Beginner shows just the essentials for planning a night, imaging and looking at your pictures; Advanced shows every page and setting. Switch whenever you like. Nothing is switched off in Beginner, so plans, alerts, storm guard and the battery check keep working.
Video 18 · 2:57
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: work through the Messier and Caldwell lists, see what you've already imaged and what's up tonight, add any target to tonight's plan, and plan a whole Messier Marathon night.
Video 19 · 2:12
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: open a stacked picture in the Album, press Labels, and Nebulink names the galaxies, nebulae, clusters and bright stars in it, with arrows for north and east. Save a copy with the labels drawn on; your original stays as it was.
Video 20 · 2:02
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: show your Seestar's live stacked picture full screen for visitors, with the name of what they're looking at, how far away it is, a fact that changes every 15 seconds, and a code to scan for more on a phone.
Video 21 · 2:42
New in Nebulink 2.2.12: see when the ISS and China's Tiangong station cross your sky in the next five nights, and which other bright satellites pass high in the next 14 hours. Get a warning while you stack when one is about to cross your scope's field.
Video 22 · 2:09
New in Nebulink 2.2.11: see satellite clouds and rain radar around your observing place on the Weather page, switch between Nearby, Region and Wide, play the last hour to see which way it's moving, and read the warnings and watch-outs under the map.
Video 23 · 2:08
New in Nebulink 2.2.17: Enhance finds the streaks that satellites and planes leave across your pictures, marks each one so you can check it, and takes them out of the saved picture. Untick one that isn't a trail, or mark a missed one by hand.
Video 24 · 2:03
New in Nebulink 2.2.15 and 2.2.16: the Seestar's mount mode and a level light in the status bar, a phone icon in the header that pairs your phone from any page, a page list that always fits, and a link to the Nebulink community on Discord.
Video 25 · 2:17
New in Nebulink 2.2.13 to 2.2.17: plan in the morning for tonight, plan for a Seestar that's switched off, no scope box while its arm is folded, and a horizon scan that carries on while you use other pages and continues where it stopped.
Video 26 · 2:10
New in Nebulink 2.2.18 and 2.2.19: after every GoTo Nebulink checks that the target landed in the middle of the picture and aims again if it didn’t, darks are built after imaging even if the camera was still on, and a few changes make Nebulink safer on a shared Wi-Fi.
Video 27 · 2:47
New in Nebulink 2.2.20: the Moon page, a Sky map that follows your plan, EQ mode that stays EQ, a quicker horizon scan, and a list of everything you can say to Ask Nebulink.
Video 28 · 2:09
New in Nebulink 2.2.38: arrange Live view, Stacking and Alignment six ways each, and the Moon page four ways, with the Layout buttons at the top of the page. The buttons work the same in every layout, and Nebulink remembers your choice for each page.
Video 29 · 2:49
New in Nebulink 2.2.36 to 2.2.38: the redesigned Moon page. Turn on the camera in Solar System mode, save photos and videos with the buttons under the picture, set the exposure and gain, center the Moon, label a crater, and choose where photos and videos go.
Video 30 · 2:27
New in Nebulink 2.2.36 to 2.2.38: how the nights have been at your place over the last 3 months to 3 years, NASA's real-color satellite photo on the weather map, a tidier Weather page whose cards fold away, and a forecast for anywhere in the world.
Video 31 · 1:57
New in Nebulink 2.2.37: polar alignment that waits for you. A pause before each solve, bigger numbers, a status line that says what's happening, Live adjust that takes a reading when you press Next measurement, and Measure here.
Video 32 · 1:58
New in Nebulink 2.2.38: a smaller header and status bar, a Wi-Fi meter for each scope, GMT in the status bar, a one-line status on your phone, a round Ask Nebulink button, and night mode that turns everything red.
Video 33 · 1:51
New in Nebulink 2.2.36 to 2.2.38: plans and Nebulink Whiz can turn the scope off at the end, the Stacking page says when the mount is still moving, Enhance has better color and a Color noise slider, and targets that are too high wait their turn.
Video 34 · 3:33
New in Nebulink 2.2.58 to 2.2.78: the Planets page. Pick a planet, slew to it and center it, focus it, zoom in and move the scope with the arrow pad, watch it live with the finder camera, and save photos and video.
Video 35 · 1:56
Beginner, the status line, tonight's best targets and checking your telescope. New in 2.2.93.
Video 36 · 1:56
Where the forecast and the sky pictures come from, how it works outside the US, and how to refresh or clear the weather. New in 2.2.93.
Video 37 · 1:56
The Connection page, the port test and scan, the PC gauges, how the PC holds up during the night, and how to get remote help. New in 2.2.90 and 2.2.93.
Video 38 · 2:48
Download Nebulink, check the file, run the installer, and open it for the first time. Covers the Windows warning, connecting your Seestar and the free 14-day trial.
The user manual covers every page and setting. Inside Nebulink, Ask Nebulink answers questions and checks your setup, and Send log to support on the About page reaches us directly. Or write to support@getnebulink.com.
Subscribe to the Nebulink YouTube channel to see new videos first.
The videos show Nebulink 2.2 in demo mode, with sample scopes, places and pictures. They play from YouTube's privacy-enhanced service, which loads only when you press play.