[Wussell (Russell)]

I am a newbie at astrophotography and was looking forward to a night of imaging last night. The last month or so I have slowly been getting to know how to polar align using Sharpcap and then guide with PHD. I have done away with the hand controller for my NEQ6 and gone with the eqmod cable. Managed to get all that working and took a few test shots with my DSLR. I checked out the pics and they had a hell of alot of noise in them and what looked like a red tinge to them. Went over everything and double checked it all, same result. Cause of the issue was I believe the sensor getting too hot, as the filenames have the temperature in there and it was way over any previous images I have done. I am learning very quickly that it can be a rewarding hobby but also a very frustrating one too lol.


Now I have to decide if I want to mod the camera with a cooler or save for a cooled CCD. I had a look online and the camera mods seem to be very bulky and dont look very balanced at all. I dont want to be putting too much weight on the focal reducer/flattner.