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M20 Trifid, my first go at autoguiding
Hello everyone!
Been a while for me what with clouds and too many things to do....
I have been working on a set up to try out some autoguiding.
Still working things out but tonight was my first descent success at a trial long exposure autoguided.
I managed this 322 sec shot at ISO 800. I was only doing it to see if trails would turn up because i expected the shot would be ruined by the moonlight but it looks pretty enough to me put here....for posterity HAHAHAAH (i always post my first horror shots it seems!)
Anyhow, the other 5 min shot seemed to trail for some reason and the 10 minute shot was a real write off, not sure why yet...could be that I'm due for a good drift alignment which i have been neglecting lately.
here it is, cropped, I'm happy enough and encouraged to refine the technique i nthe hope to be ready for the next new Moon.
details are on the pic but basically: C9.25 F6.3 on CG5 autoguided (guidedog) by a Modded TOUCAM on a 100mm Acuter spotting scope (yes that's right...and you should see how it's rigged up to the scope....) EOS 20Da ISO 800 exposure 1x 322 seconds. Some processign including Microsoft photoeditor, PS, noiseware (of course)
cheers
frank
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