Hi all!
I'm relatively new to telescopic astrophotography and I'm still learning all of my gear. I keep coming up against a problem with my tracking which causes me to throw out a lot of my subs. Last night I was out testing things to try and work out my problems. There was cloud, but that didn't affect the testing, so please ignore it.
Here's an animated gif I created from a set of 44x2 min unguided exposures:
http://gph.is/1OpxQL9
I'm using a 200mm f8 carbon fibre tube newtonian reflector on an NEQ6 pro mount, no guiding and no PEC as yet. There was no wind and I didn't touch the scope through the whole time.
The movement seems to be in a general direction, which I'm guessing is polar misalignment, but there's a high frequency movement in random directions, and one very significant movement in the middle.
Is this normal? Shouldn't I be able to get mostly good exposures with no trailing at 2mins on this mount? Is the only solution to start autoguiding?
Your advice would be much appreciated
