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Old 31-05-2016, 09:32 AM
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Thanks Nino and Damien

I braved the cold last night again and had some success. My results varied this time more because I think I had my scope aligned better this time. With the eyepiece, when I Goto'd to an object, I had the object almost in the center of FOV. Previously it wasn't as accurate.

So here is what I did. I used the eyepiece to align the telescope (this is what happens when I start my LX90, it uses GPS and two stars to align). Next, I put in the reducer and found jupiter. Jupiter was tiny and I guess its because the reducer gives a more wider view of the sky. So yay, I managed to get to Jupiter. It was on the edge of FOV with the camera to had to get it into the center.
Then I took out the reducer and just used the tadapter from the reducer and the titan. Jupiter had almost slipped out of FOV but luckily I saw it at the edge and managed to get it centered.
I found that 1s exposures gave a ghostly white image, so I started playing with the exposures. Increasing it higher than 1s just made it worse. So I started reducing it and hey presto, I got to 0.01s and I saw bands of Jupiter Its a raw and still looks grainy. Also the raw looks dimmer than what I saw on the computer screen

Unfortunately, when I slewed to Mars/Saturn, I didn't have much luck and I guess Damien pointed it out quite well. Since I had initially aligned the telescope with just the eyepiece, and then had swapped it out with the camera, the weight change might have slightly changed the setup, which meant I didn't quite land on the objects and the planets moving, the precision wasn't enough

Any pointers on how I can just go straight to having the tadapter and camera instead of using eyepiece to align, and then swapping to reducer and then taking the reducer out?
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