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Originally Posted by rogerco
I'm setting up an EQ5 with drive for the first time, and having similar problems. I used a compass and found my house had been built to what appears to be true north south.
But when I took a few photos I still had problems, I took two shots. The first a stationary shot got me intentional star trails 38mm long. The second with drive engaged got me trails 8mm long. Both were time exposures of about 35min.
My question is is this due to DEC or polar alignment errors (or both).
Regards
Roger Cooper  |
Hi Roger
You are going to have to learn to Drift Align if you want to take astro photo's, you require that sort of accuracy to achieve any decent shots.
There are a number of different ways of achieving this, Webcam, visual.
Here is an article from the IIS Projects and Articles page:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.p...63,405,0,0,1,0
If you don't have an autoguider, for shots as long as you have stated, you will need to hand guide by using an Illuminated Reticle and the telescope hand controller.
Cheers