Hi friends of astrophotography!
Some days ago I prepared my equipement (Pentax 75 SDHF, 350d, LVI Smart Guider, Vixen GP-E) for photographing. Location: My balcony. I did everything very carefully!
So I could start my first image. After 10 minutes I checked the pic
, damned, the objects are too close to the edge of the frame. Okay, I had to justify it again. It was not easy, I could see nothing looking through the viewer of the cam. I had to make pics for checking out the position of the galaxies.
So I could start a 2nd tiral. I spent 10 minutes in my living room. After that I checked the pic
, I forgot to readjust the exposure time.
Okay, stay cool! The guiding star approached now to the roof of our house. So I had to find a new one. During calibration the guider lost the star.
That was too much for me, I gave up. Now I sat on the floor and watched to the stars, a wonderful clear sky! This can not be, I restarted myself!!!
New adjusting and starting the exposures. But I lost too much time. Only 5 pics.....
My fighting spirit was great, I wanted to make 15 exposures.... and what did I get. Only five.
But I wanna show you the pic, because it was so hard to get it.
The Leo Triplet: 5x 600s with ISO 800
http://www.prokyon.startime.at/Bilde...let_Apr09b.jpg
cheers
werner
(please apologize my bad grammar
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