I've been working with a completely new rig and my first
Equipment used:
EQ6-R Pro
Orion 8" Newtonian astrograph F3.9
Full spectrum moded Canon T3i with no filters
Explore Scientific
All controlled with a cheap refurbished Windows 10 laptop running
I'm not really impressed with this image. Collimation was off and focus was a bit out but the point is that I got everything to work and play together.
The fact that I captured an image at all is just a little bonus. I made a few observations during this process that I'd like to share and PLEASE give me some input.
1. This scope moves weird! My
2. This was my first time without a hand controller or alignment.
3. I am very surprised how well this mount tracked. I polar aligned with the polar scope in the mount (No polar alignment device like PoleMaster) and I was able to capture 2 minute exposures unguided!
4. The
5. I think I have some dust on my sensor. Just to the lower left of the nebula there's a smudge. I've seen this in some of my images before. Any suggestions for cleaning?
This is a total of ~50 2 min exposures with 15 darks and 20 bias frames.
Thanks for all of your input, suggestions and feedback that's got me this far!
Larry