[pberrett]

Hi everyone

I recently bought myself a telescope and mount and have been trying to take images in a light polluted area.

First here's my setup

- Skywatcher 130P/900 telescope
- Synscan Alt/Az mount
- Electronic eyepiece SvBony Sv-205 8Mp (on 1280 x 720 setting)
- cheap light pollution filter

I have looked at the moon and a number of planets but now I wanted to try and image stars. I pointed my telescope towards Acheron and took 200 x 100ms exposures as an avi file and then later 200 x 200ms exposures as an avi file. I stacked both using registax but the best I could do was the following.

What am I doing wrong? Admittedly my area is fairly light polluted but I was using a light pollution filter with fairly long exposures.

Thanks Peter