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Old 02-05-2009, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by troypiggo View Post
Think you might want to check the image you uploaded. Looks extremely pixelated here. Might have resized it for web incorrectly?
Looks "as" (but not too bad) as expected" from an EQ2 mount. All my advice involves spending money so I'll try to not go down that path too much...

1. For unguided widefields - get your polar alignment as tight as possible - 30secs will stretch out to 60sec when properly aligned.

2. Stop down the lens from 1.8 to around f4 - stars will become a lot tighter/sharper.

3. Once you get polar alignment sorted out - push your number of exposures - 20-30 x 30-60sec exposues!! Push it man!!!!

Good luck - hope any of this helps - Keep On Keepin' On!!!!!!!!!!!!
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