I use deep sky stacking EAA with ZWO ASI 294 or 533
it must be able to perform plate solving
It must be 12V
It must have an integrated touch screen
Must have an SD card reader
and obviously at least two USB ports, at least one of which is 3.0
I searched the model name to try to find an English product page, and interestingly some Youtube reviews came up of that product (or similar ones), so probably worth watching those.
Looking at it just from the specifications list:
* 16Gb should be fine
* The N5095 Celeron is a bit slow, but should cope with basic live stacking - I think. If it was too slow, you could use 2x2 binning to reduce the data amounts. Plate solving will work, but may be slower than you are used to (shouldn't be unusably slow)
* The onboard storage is probably slow compared to what we are used to with M2 or even SATA SSDs
* The touch screen is only 1280x720 resolution - not ideal for SharpCap, but should be usable
* The small size of the screen may make hitting the right button hard - SharpCap is designed for mouse use not touch
Unless you already have a car battery that you plan to re-use, I wouldn't use one for this project - they are designed for short bursts of high current drain, not providing a power supply over a prolonged period. They really don't much like going below 50% capacity - repeatedly doing that will shorten the life. They are also heavy...
While you can get lead acid batteries designed more for this sort of use (often called 'leisure batteries'), I would suggest a 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 (Lithium-Iron-Phosphate) battery instead - half the weight of a lead acid battery, but at least twice the usable capacity as you *can* deep discharge these down to 90%. The prices of these have really dropped recently and you can get a basic one for £140 to £150 or so and a higher specification one with bluetooth (and therefore an app on your phone that will report battery state of charge, voltage, etc) by paying a bit more. You can also get different capacities - 50Ah or 200Ah, etc.
The PC shown was just an example.
I understand that N5095 Celeron is slow; what could be a minimum suitable processor for this type of mini-pc?
We only talk about assisted EAA
Thanks again !
personally I'd probably suggest that something with some sort of Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 based would have the necessary power - even the low power laptop models of those chips would likely have 2 or more times the processing power of the N5095. Of course, they are going to cost more, and in the mini PC with a screen category, there is probably a very limited choice of models.
