After waiting weeks to test out my new mount the clouds finally disappeared enough for me to have a test run last night.
This was my first time at imaging with an EQ mount. Previously I was limited to planetary imaging with a Dob mount. Now a whole new world of galaxies has opened up.
As this was my first time at trying to drift align I spent ages trying to get it right. I think I was improving the alignment slowly. In the end I decided that would have to do because I was busting to try and image something .... and what better something than Omega Centauri.
Anyway, I only managed to get 10 decent 30 second images before the cloud started appearing again. After processing in Iris this was the result.
The second image was a combined image produced by Envisage as the imaging run proceeded. Does anyone know why the stars did a sudden 90 deg. turn and started drifting in a different direction? I was thinking maybe something was loose and started to slip?
