Mount Error Imaging NGC 6357

[leon]

Hi guys, well what dose one do when the sky is clear for a change, one of coarse goes out to image, but in my great excitement ones loses the plot, and dose not do what one is suppose to do.

Anyway to make a long story short I imaged away most of the night and all seemed well, until the end of the session, when I noticed that i had forgot to put the Mount into Photo mode, and it had been imaging all night in siderial time :doh: :doh:

Yep it imaged away quite happily until PHD spat the dummy after the 14 frame and refused to go on. :shrug:

However it captured NGC pretty well, I think, :shrug: see what you guys think, of the full un-cropped version.

All was taken with the Tak and Canon 5D (modded) auto guided ( in Siderial Mode) on the G11, 14 frames at 500 ISO at 5 minutes each, flats and darks applied, and processed in Image Plus, and CS2.

Also a Raw Frame that was attacked by a plane, and the last that was the result of PHD's tantrum. :lol: :lol:

So First up is the final image, then the plane, :whistle: then the dummy spit. :whistle:

considering the mistake on my part it seems that my mount is pretty well aligned :shrug:

Leon :thumbsup:

[BerrieK]

Hey cool Leon, it seems that with the dummy spit you have designed a new carpet pattern for the RSL!! Considering, your processed image doesnt look too bad to me (but what would I know?!?)

Kerrie

[TrevorW]

Leon the EQ6 tracks in siderial mode normally when imaging whats the difference with a G11 in photo

Shame you missed Cats Paw

Nice widefield though

[leon]

Good point Trevor, the instruction manual and all others that use a G11 for imaging have told me that i must put it in Photo Mode, :shrug: obviously at different tracking speed.

Anyway it works both ways, as it seems. ;)

Leon :thumbsup: