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Originally Posted by renormalised
What you should do is join an astronomical society/club and go to a few of their nights. See what the other members are using for piccies and learn from their experience. You're going to need some sort of guidscope/autoguider combo to guide your scope for taking piccies of DSO's, otherwise you'll be limited to subs 60sec or shorter.
Best also, to learn th e night sky first. Otherwise you're going to get lost and rather frustrated trying to find targets. Grab yourself a copy of Stellarium and also a good set of starcharts in book form.
As far as the method you're going to use to take the piccies, that's up to you and whatever the circumstances you find yourself in (as in what equipment you have, where you are etc etc).
As far as keeping busy goes, you're going to have more to do than you can imagine  There's plenty of targets out there for you to have a go at. |
Hi Carl,
Thanks for the reply, do appreciate the comment
and yeah your right I couldn't go wrong if I could easily identify points in the night sky and have some scene of direction. I'm just itching to get into the guts of it that's all.
Ok as far as guild scopes are concerned my misses will kill me if I spend anymore money lol for now that is.(just purchased the 550) But that aside what are your thoughts on just stacking say 45 - 1 min exposures without obviously guiding?
For example with near perfect alignment, M42 how will that turn out with say 1min x 30 stacked images +dark and light frames added. Would this be a way of getting around it for now with other messier objects also?
Cheers,
Dan