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Originally Posted by h0ughy
how you going for balance there. looks a bit on one side. does the tripod want to topple?
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David, it does seem a bit one sided, so I pointed one of the tripod legs south, just like you should do with any GEM. The tripod legs have two extension sections and even with only the top one extended it was quite stable. I will see if the 804RC2 head is easier to adjust than the ball head on it today.
The camera is on a short dovetail to allow dec balance and the camera mount slides along the rail to balance RA.
These were taken with my 16-50mm at 50mm, f3.2, 45 sec ISO400 (DSC00381s) and 500mm Samyang Cat (very hard to focus, might have to get the Sony one - ~$1450 ouch), f6.3, 58 secs, ISO800 (DSC00393s), both with pretty poor polar align. No processing other than resize. Hate the Sydney light pollution.