Your favorite image.
Think of all the photos you may have taken and which was your favorite..either because it signalled a break thru or you took if when your house was on fire..
Maybe an object you never thought you could capture ..a photo with a new scope or a very old one or a new camera...so post your special photo and tell us about its significance in your astrophotography journey.
My favorite is now over ten years old..it is a widefield.
I practiced for two weeks to pull it all together and produce this image...getting good polar alignment took me most of those two week leading up to this photo..I had my mount pulled down by a mate and fiddled with..I cancelled playing pool that night☺ and manually guided the camera via a 150 reflector scope with an illuminated reticle for one hour and twenty minutes to get it all in one single capture..no stacking can you believe it☺...one hour twenty minutes glued to the eye piece... I nearly went crazy.
I took widefields every night for two week leading up to build up to this night..new Moon...so everything would work.
So that is why this image is special to me..I have done better I guess but nothing makes them as special as this...so please post something you are proud of and share with us the circumstances.
Alex
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