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Planetary imaging really gives you a chance to be lazy, and not learn things like drift alignment, the importance of polar alignment and so on..
I got my EQ6 initially so I could take better planetary images, however because of this, I had no real need or want to learn much about my mount at all... It worked, but it was never polar aligned well or anything like that, And i put off drift aligning because i didnt really need to do it... Now that im into deep sky imaging, polar alignment is critical, and it took me quite a while to know how to do get it there...
Yes you could go that way, but its not likely to teach you to use your mount to its potential...
A modded DSLR is a camera thats had the standard IR filter removed, and had either a clear glass replacement, or a Ba'ader/hutech IR filter added...
From the factory, DSLR's are not very sensitive to Ha light.. Ha light is very important to imaging nebulae, so astronomers find ways around this lack of sensitivity. buy removing the standard IR filter, which block everything from IR right the way through the Ha spectrum, and replacing it with a specialized astronomy filter, The Ha (red) spectrum comes out a lot stronger in images, and provides much more pleasing results.
Alex.
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