Greetings All,
Now that I have spent enough time on the moon for now
, I tried some piggyback photos after reading up about proper alignment etc. Also now I am out of the backyard and off down the road to get away from immediate town lights.
I haven't started on darks and flats and all those things cause I'm too impatient
to start clicking to see what comes out but it's the next skill I'm going to try soon. The first 10 minutes were a joke because I forgot to take the cap off as I kept the lense hood on
and then in my rush to get out there and numerous pot holes, I opened a can of coke and it sprayed all over my 35mm lense and then my hands were sticky for next hour as I didn't bring water
So anyway enough from yet another novice just too keen to get out without thinking so, here are 2 photos with the third just a crop of the 2nd. It took over an hour of taking photos before I was starting to get happy with my selection of exposure etc and tracking with the mount.
1. Wide field with a 40D at 16mm & F4.0, 240sec ISO800. Single shot only so a bit noisy and I had to crop it because the original you can see the tip of my newt sticking out at the bottom like you know what...
2. 40D and 200mm at F4.0 and 240sec ISO800. Again single shot only.
3. Is just the crop of 2.
Camera was piggy back onto the Meade lx55.
Would I benefit greatly from stacking for wide field and things like dark and flat fields
. I think the ISO800 probably doesn't help. I'm lucky the ambient temp down here is always around 0 deg.
Thanks for looking and any tips/improvements would be much appreciated
Cheers,
Darrin...