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Originally Posted by astro744
Which constellation is Acheron in? I have never heard of it being a star. Did you mean Achernar?
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My bad. Yes I meant Achernar. Its very high in the sky.
One complication in all this is that i am using a simle tracking mount (Skyscan) so that will probably mean I can have longer exposures.
Short answer to this is that its almost dark. Soon I will go outside, pick a star to focus on and then try a series of different exposures and see what difference they make.
At the end of the day I want to see how much fine detail and faint stars I can see in my images.
Once I have the optimum exposure time I will take sequences of images 12 minutes apart and see if I can find any new comets for asteroids. A bit ambitious for a light polluted area but no harm in trying!
Of course some will say that one needs a much bigger telescope to find asteroids and comets but there is some new software called Tycho which may make it possible to find asteroids using a smaller telescope. It stacks images in all different directions to identify faint asteroids.
cheers Peter