Thanks every one,
The EQ platform is has a stepper motor attached. Although I'm still working to improve this. I actually had captured 400 frames but 50% were throw away. There's another thread in the diy section about my progress in upgrading from DC to stepper motor.
Oh and I also forgot to add that I have to use a 1.5x Barlow in order to get focus which doesn't help with the elongated stars.
Thanks Mickoid, more than happy to share the unprocessed image if youre interested to play around with it. I just admit my PP skills aren't the best and I tend to over process my images.
Cheers
Greg
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Originally Posted by Mickoid
Gregory, a very impressive result from your set up. Was this guided by hand or have you also attached a motor to your home made EQ mount? I downloaded your image to my phone and stretched it a bit to find a lot of detail you have clipped with your processing. I reduced the exposure, played with the levels and increased the saturation to reveal some very good data amongst those 200 X 8 sec subs. Stars are a little eggy but at 1250mm of focal length I would expect it to very difficult to keep them round on a home made mount. Great effort on achieving this, keep up the good work!  |
