Hi all,
I’ve spent a lot of time between serious imaging sessions refining my set up. A lot of work went into tuning my mount, repositioning the OTA, building a dew heat controller and heaters for my secondary and guide scope. Along the way most of my potential imaging nights have been spent testing. I was hoping by the time I’d finished, my new dedicated Astro camera would have arrived. Alas it has not. So I took the opportunity to add some data to this years Tarantula on my old DSLR. Apart from my previous data and this data being taken within a week of the full moon and last nights session having a seeing rating of only 5, the night was a resounding success. I managed to achieve a full night of over 6 hours with no dew and guiding error hovering between 0.47 and 0.52 consistently for the entire session.
This image was inspired by a recent image posted by JP in a dual band colour palette.
202 x 180sec subs
Canon 350d @ ISO400
STCduo filter
8” f/4 imaging Newtonian
HEQ5 Pro mount
Guided by ASIair with EQmod
Bortle 8 backyard
Thanks for looking
Cheers, Ryan