Hopefully these attachments work! I had many problems, running in and out of the house like a mad man. had to keep centering image by feel due to image being sent to BackyardEOS, then the process ultimately failed because I was in 960 video mode, so resolution was poor. was hoping to do 10 to 100 frame stacks to get really good quality, but then at ISO 1000 had no quality issues with the 5D MK III anyway.
Took many contingency pictures manually, sat on a stool, gave me plenty of viewfinder time. Spent 10 minutes and liveview 10x mode to achieve critical focus then locked the mirror down nicely.
Focus plane is definitely not flat at 146mm of extension, but the field was flat looking, so really not sure what was going on there. Scope was only very roughly polar aligned and I forgot to change from lunar to sidereal tracking, so 1s exposures to get the moons and earthglow didnt work out anywhere near what I wanted.
I will try an exposure stacked mosaic later tonight.
All attached pictures are straight out of the camera, no processing, only cropped and single exposures. Really wanted to go for the natural, as the eyes see it look, and think I achieved that
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Camera glitched for ingress, and took 11 megapixel Jpegs instead of 22 megapixel RAWs, got no idea why that happened, but something to do with backyard EOS for sure, and unplugging USB cable to take pictures manually. Saw it wasnt working and ran outside to manually take exposures. But I am stoked with the results nevertheless.
Only managed one egress picture because of dew, got lucky to get that far, moisture was building up everywhere and was a bit worried about the camera and internal dewing. That one ended up being 22 megapixel RAW, so way too big to compress down properly for this post, might get onto it tonight.
