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Old 14-11-2009, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr View Post
Wow, hand guided - well done ! Samson mount - brings back memories. I used to have a "Delux German Equatorial mount" from Astro-Optics (or I think they were called "Amateur Astronomers Supply Co" back then) which they used to sell prior to the Samson I believe. I remember one night after a couple of hours crouched over the guidescope hand guiding a few shots, when I realised that the exposure on my Praktica camera was set at 1/1000 of a second !##$%#! I guess you've heard it all before ...
LOL.
yep, my mate Jeff did that here one night, many moons ago hand guided a 30 minute shot but the shutter was set to 1000th sec or something like that.
Scott
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