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Old 11-07-2006, 11:20 AM
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I don't know if it will track accurately enough, i'm sure you can download the latest ephemeris into your LX200, but you'd want to test it first.

From all the threads i've read on various forums, people have their webcam/camera ready to go (or already running), and use their (very accurately aligned) finderscope to track the object. So it's a matter of keeping the point of light centered in your finderscope, and with any luck, some or most of the frames will be in the FOV.

I think judging exposure will be the hard part, as you only get one shot at it.

Maybe "auto" exposure will work best? So that you might get some frames with a bit underexposure, and some with a bit overexposure, and you can combine them to get the faint details from the overexposed ones, and the regular details from the underexposed one.

I dunno though, just thinking out loud. I've never tried it.
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