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Old 18-02-2007, 02:14 PM
Eternal
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Bankstown
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My first ever astrophotograph!

And it's out of focus!!!

It's Eta Carina taken from my heavily light polluted unit in Bankstown. The equipment details are as follows:

Telescope: Skywatcher 8" Newtonian
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5 (slightly overloaded)
Guidescope: Skywatcher 70x700mm Refractor
Guide Camera: Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 with Bintel 0.5 focal reducer
Guide Software: Guidedog with Shoestring Astronomy Autoguide mods done to EQ5 Dual Access Controller.
Main Camera: Canon EOS 400D (prime focus) with 2" UHC-S Baader filter attached.
Imaging: 10 x 30 second exposures at ISO800, 5 x darks, 5 x offsets, no flats.
Image Processing: Images stacked in DeepSkyStacker and enhanced in Photoshop CS2.

I'm not very happy with it to be honest. Particularly considering I spent a good hour trying to drift align my scope (not helped by the fact I do not have a good view of the eastern or western horizon). Hopefully I'll do better next time.
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