Dealy
31-12-2013, 12:22 PM
I've had 2 outings now with my new set-up, and was very happy to see Uranus and Neptune and a couple of nebula for the first time last night.
On my first outing I had trouble with the polar alignment and then a power supply drama.
2nd time around equipped with new transformer I managed to polar align to 6 arc secs elevation and 20 arc secs az. Could have done a couple more 2 star alignments and gotten closer but found it was near enough for goto to place objects in the FOV every time.
Next step more practice with alignment and then start learning how to set-up the camera and take some shots.
Then comes tackling the dreaded steep learning curve for processing.
Still have an enormous amount to learn but slowly getting there. :)
Kev
On my first outing I had trouble with the polar alignment and then a power supply drama.
2nd time around equipped with new transformer I managed to polar align to 6 arc secs elevation and 20 arc secs az. Could have done a couple more 2 star alignments and gotten closer but found it was near enough for goto to place objects in the FOV every time.
Next step more practice with alignment and then start learning how to set-up the camera and take some shots.
Then comes tackling the dreaded steep learning curve for processing.
Still have an enormous amount to learn but slowly getting there. :)
Kev