First astrophotography image/first time using an EQ mount. I spent 3 hours aligning my mount properly (laptop battery died and then I had figure out drift aligning using my D90), only for clouds to roll in 10 minutes later. I was only able to get 3-4 shots off, but I'm still pretty stoked I got more than a blurry blob!
This is just a single 30sec exposure of ETA Carinae (NGC 3372) at ISO 1600. The focus wasn't great, as I screwed it up when I was using the camera to drift align (I was in the process of fixing that when Eta disappeared behind the clouds!). I haven't cropped the image and obviously I need a coma corrector
. Hopefully next pay check!
Full size image can be found here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ndcorreia/14286736727/
Equipment:
8" f/4 Newtonian
HEQ5 Pro mount unguided
Nikon D90
Macbook pro running BackyardNikon Beta 02
Processed in Photoshop Lightroom 5