Greeting All Again,
Thanks very much
- I certainly wasn't expecting this response from pics being a single exposure. Your words have encouraged me to continue on my quest!
Yes, I am blessed with the dark skies down here and I did put a lot of effort into trying to get the mount to track and I think the 40D with good lense just shows what this camera is capable of in the cold even though it's starting to get a little dated.
I have only tried stacking on the moon at this stage as flats, darks, etc seem daunting but I'll stick with the mount first to try and get the most out of it as it is only a LXD55 which is a very cheap mount (even Meade seem to have dis-owned it) but watching the guys and girls in the main deep sky section, I have a fair way to go yet.
I'll stick to wide field initially and hopefully later this month, I'll attempt sticking the 40D into the main OTA for a go at deep sky which my OTA seems to pull out a reasonable picture. Thanx jjj for your stacker tips - it's got me even more excited
I've been reading some of the stories by others on stacking and it's got me nervous but we'll give it a go. Also Photoshop is another one of those hurdles but I've been experimenting (with disastrous results
) but there's some great online stuff (Just found the Ken Crawford site yesterday and by jeepers, what you can do......
)
As Mario alludes to in one if his posts to me, "Mario goes out and buys a .. then Mario needs a ... and then ..." which I love that story
, I can see myself heading down Mario's path provided the $$$ are there!
Cheers,
Darrin...