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Originally Posted by PKay
Youv'e set the bar high Alex!
So much colour, beautiful pieces of art, shame about the yellow circles.
But I still don't know where it is, what do I tell my GoTo?
Also a nice image from Ben 
Look forward to finding it 
And don't forget the capture details!! Were all learning here!! |
Peter it may be a good idea for you to post some notes of a technical nature.
Thanks for your kind words re the first images...thank goodness the circles are yellow as I was not sure if they may be green.
I think it is Benjamin who has set the bar rather high but perhaps the thing to remember is that it should be about personal best efforts...I would love to see if anyone can manage a static tripod wide field for example with relatively cheap gear...
I have some great news...some may recall that I believed that the lap top I purchased with a specific demand that it had usb 3 did not in fact have usb 3...I called the retailer who assured me that it did have usb 3 but today I had my friend at Country IT in Casino take a look and he was able to tell me the thing has a usb 2 and a usb 3 so most happy as I can buy a narrow band set up ...maybe.
But the really good news was on openning up the lap top he was able to tell me he can take it up to 16 gig of ram.
Now I am not sure exactly how this will make life better but I am hoping that DSS wont take as long and that I can up the number of images to stack.
Peter I saw an interesting utube vid about signal to noise which I cant link unfortunately ...sometimes but not always on this phone...but he seemed to know his stuff and said a lot of light frames did help improve things, also longer exposures so I am going to try and achieve both...300 frames at at least thirty seconds but hopefully when I get back to Sydney the pole master will have arrived so when next up here I will achieve a polar alignment that at least will enable say 2 minute captures...And if I can get the auto guiding working and all the stuff related to power supply etc etc I can get serious.
Plus I will "blue print" the little HEQ5 as there is now some point to the exercise..I have a few ideas to improve it and its rather poor tripod..it can be better.
It is surprising the amount of energy even at this level one puts into the sport and when you are past the use by date like me the simplest of tasks present as difficult.
I may bite the bullet and install a permanent pier and a "cube" here.
..having built one the next should be a snap...digging the hole and pouring the cement will take all the mental and physical strength I can muster.
It is so extremely frustrating not to be able to work for more than a couple of minutes before needing to rest.
Still I will be patient and remember that saying...you can eat an elephant if you take little bites and often.
And I downloaded an app that gives exact long and lat and elevation which should help a little setting up the mount.
Slewing takes so much time however as opposed to manual but I guess I will just have to endure if I am to reap the benefits of goto.
All good and more than one reason to wake up tomorrow
Alex
dont hang to interfere or present the possibility of getting in the way during my capture session. However I admit this trip I would cover the whole sky in a night to get as much as I could going for quantity not quality and not caring to improve the gear but to get out of it all it could offer in its current state of lack of refinement.
