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Zuts
26-02-2008, 09:06 PM
Hi All,

My second hand camera finally arrived from Canada. Since we are in the middle of a thunderstorm I tried a first light indoors. Initially I used a pinhole and couldnt get anything and thought maybe I had got a broken camera :scared:, then I switched to an EOS adaptor and 50 ml lens and got this, a lovely photo of my daughter :). She is a star so I guess it is OK to post here. I havn't checked tracking or connected it to the mount but at least the cooling and CCD seems OK.

So all in all I am very happy and can't wait to get out and get some astro images :D.

Ric
26-02-2008, 11:34 PM
Congrats on your first indoor light, everything looks nice and sharp.

Hope the storm passes soon so you can test run the camera outdoors.

Cheers

Alchemy
27-02-2008, 05:49 AM
glad to see your gear made it safely, now of course that you have the ccd we expect great things (pressure:D whew)