The Orion Experiment.

[netwolf]

Hi All,

Well I finally setup the LX90 on its wedge, managed to carry it one piece out the door as well with a little effort. Spent and hour or two trying to find Sigma Octans and polar aligning the scope with the finder as a polar scope. I spotted the Octans box with the binoculars and then marked it out using one of the house window frame edges as the rough reference. Initial 2 star alignment produced a 5' error (not exact sure what this means). Then i lost power, note to self build new power cord the one i have is to loose. Tried to perfect the visual alignment but i think i messed it up as the error now was much higher. Saw Orion on the rise and thought I might try that new toy of mine. Here are three tests at 30s, 20s and 15s at iso 800 using the Celestron F6.3 FR. Note the stair trail. I set on Raw + L so these are the jpeg's resized of the camera, no processing. This was just a experiment to check how well I had aligned. I was going to do more then the battery ran out.. Doh!. Oh well I had fun.

Regards
Fahim

[Phil]

nice one Fahim great work.
Phil

[h0ughy]

well done - on the road to success thats for sure

[xelasnave]

Fahim I am very happy for you.
Welcome to the frustrating world of electric worms.
But you are to be congratualted on a fine first effort.
It seems you are getting a decent focus and are near to nailoing polar align.
Well done I say this is a great start and can see you will be a new force in the forum wih astrophotos.
Just remember it is not an easy game and enjoy the downs as well as the ups.
best wishes
alex

[Apoman]

Fahim,

Not bad at all, keep working on your polar alignment routine and
you will do just fine.

Regards,