Hi,
Well I finally got enough of the equipment that I need to do some prime focus astrophotography.
Tonight there is patchy cloud in Sydney (closest thing to clear skies I have had) and I figured that my first attempt wasn't going to be that good anyway, so I may as well set up and test it all out.
My first target is M42. It is a single 28 second exposure at ISO400 on the Pentax *ist DS. Probably needs to be better focused, or better polar aligning (still need the reticle for that).
Anyway, here it is
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