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Iceman's widies.....
Hi Mike - some great shots there, and quite similar in many ways to the type that I'm thinking of! One of the issues I'll also need to determine is just how much DSLR images can be blown up for high quality "prints" - I occasionally work with professional photographers and labs documenting stuff of mine who should be able to provide that info: but they're not "astro heads."
I've pm'd Eric to twist his arm (again!) for some more answers to my second posting - but I'd be most gratefull for your answers (or anyone else's for that matter) on my many questions.
Notice yours were done with a canon 350D - was it modded with the below mentioned filters? Any other thoughts/comments/info for me re my previous post?
Did you experience the need to remove any meteor/satellite trails and if so, how?
Re guiding, as I said, I'm confident of my set-up/manual correction skills over short exposures (though this would necessitate piggy-backing the camera on a scope to give me that capability) - and rather than an ED80 etc I'd feel at home with either of my scopes with an illum reticle - even thought about that finder with the sophisticated illum reticle that Erick commented on in the Japanese site: or at least having another excuse to buy it!
My comments in my EQ platform thread and the "dob slo-mo controls" are all about these considerations - slow, manual corrections, and compliment the "adjustable base" for the RTP base that I'm now designing (as long as it doesn't become a "leaning tower of Pisa" is my chief concern! The HEQ5 Pro is the fail-safe back up to all this.
Please let's know what you think!?!
Cheers, Darryl.
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