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Originally Posted by SimmoW
amazing comparo Peter, wow it must've been hard back then.
Didn't know you were a pilot, kudos to you! no wonder you're so good at getting those results out of your equipment, great discipline
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Well, QF certainly took a very dim view on your prospects if you even came close to scratching the paint (something I managed to avoid).
As for Astrophotography with film...not exactly hard, but you had to be methodical. Even nailing the focus was tricky (yet I note, even with real time digital tools, many still don't nail down the focus
) Guiding on a reticle for the best part of an hour was also testing.
Thankfully SBIG's venerable ST4 autoguider changed all that....and to suggest CCD's might surpass film at your local camera club would get you close to being lynched!
How times have changed.
