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Getting better Duncan. Need to tweak the focus a touch more.
Polar alignmment is a pain at times, but with practice you'll get faster at it. The closer you can get the PA, the less work your auto guider has to do when you get it set up.
My setup is semi-permanent at the moment, so been giving the alignment a tweak before every session and got it to where unguided images are out to 2 1/2 mins. Any more seems to make little difference as drive train errors start to show up with the EQ5.
Work on the auto guiding, just got mine going again and getting 5 min subs with nice round stars, unfortunately the light polution here in town is going to limit how much more I can go as at that length the images are starting to get washed out.
It's a bit of a steep learning curve, but the end results are most pleasing.
Cheers
Bill
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