Again, very much first attempt at planetary imaging.
Used Registax for this one, only about 8 frames from 840.
Just randomly pointed at the edge of the moon (full moon, low contrast!)
I think I got very lucky with the frames. Set the quality threshold pretty high.
I'm just happy to be taking pics at the moment. Finally got the 3x2 tin shed roof rolling off, so those two pics are the result of the second night out. Total setup time <10 minutes (of which about 7 was waiting for a GPS fix! and setting up the laptop etc)
So much easier than the hour of setup and pulldown before!
I so wish I had a permanent setup.. got up this morning at 4am to image Venus and Mars (after setting up last night before bed), but the seeing was crap.. so had to pack it all up again with nothing to show for it.
My shed conversion was really a total lack of skill resulting in a delay of nearly 2 years! In the end, another local member (AndrewJ) packed up tools and came to my place to help out. It's a pretty simple design using a standard garden shed. The advantage I had was that one side of the shed is right up against our garage wall, so there was somewhere easy to put the guide rails. The other front corner is propped up when open by a post, which keeps things neat when it is closed.
Outside the shed itself (which I had already), it cost about $400 in bits of wood, screws etc, and the rails and wheels (from a garage door place).
It makes such a huge difference. Only problem is that all the stuff that was in the shed (that I had somehow thought would all fit back in there), is now sitting in the garage - the wife has been relegated to the driveway, but I don't think that's going to last too long.
Next plan is for a pier, so there is a bit more wiggle room in there without having to trip over the tripod. If you can do it, at all, it really, REALLY makes life a whole lot easier.
