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Eta attempt
This was a desparation job.
Clouds every where so rather than set up 80mm or take the nikon off with it I dug out my 10 year old canon with its 70 to 300 mm then $200 lens.
And managed 10 30 second captures a few darks and a Deep Sky Stacker stack and a play in gimp.
The lens was at 70 mm but I cropped this image.
My daughter helped me get the colour as good as possible from my first attempt that was very green...and it was not easy to get rid of the green so I wonder does the fact the object was near the trees introduce a lot of green.
And although not what I had hoped to be using the old camera at least got me out there...I was really happy that the focus was reasonable as I did not use a mask and just eye balled it.
But the message is for folk thinking of having a go I say that given the value of this camera and lens it allows very cheap entry...admittedly it was on an heq5 but I recon I could have done as well on an old mount I have that is fit for the tip...probably $100 value.
Earlier that night I used the lens at 300 mm fl and took several shots of the Moon at 2000 shutter speed and stacked then in registax to see just what I could do hand held..they were reasonable but I deleted the final image but I should have shown it to encourage others that you can even get something hand held.
I am going to try a hand held with short exposure on Orion for fun if I get a chance.
Alex
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