Things have been pretty quiet for me in the imaging area over the past month or so.
I've been concentrating on working out the Losmandy mount, StarMate, K3CCDTOOLS V2 for autoguiding and DSLR Focus for
focusing
, Meade OAG, along with widefield shot using the 300D and a couple of Canon Zoom lenses and my old HD-102EQ achro refractor. Bit of an exercise in frustration at times. Well I think I've got the mount sussed out, and I've come to realize that zoom lenses aren't the way to go for astrophotography (especially when it appear they are achromatic as well
)
These are the best of a very moderate bunch IMO. And yes I know there are blue halos around the bright stars. I gave up trying to get rid of them
OK first off the rank is a cropped image of Omega centauri through my refractor
Details:
HD-102 celestron achro refractor f/10
canon 300d prime focus
30 sec ISO1600
(This was froma frustrating night of nothing going right and I wanted at least one shot for my efforts)