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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Well, not all of us still 
Although the biggest advance as far as physical ease improvement goes, is reliable autoguidng...in the past to go 60min slumped over with your eye glued to a guide eyepiece was common but a struggle, 90min or 2 hrs was done on occassions but was very tough and thus very rare. |
I remember doing a 2 hr manually guided exposure on top of Mt Donna Buang in the middle of winter.
It wasn't helped being interrogated under torch light from a police patrol from nearby Warburton who thought the sight of an individual slowly freezing to death was worth investigating.
Two hours manually guiding tested my physical limit, there is no way I could have gone 4 hours.
James Keeler who took the Pleiades image must have been one tough character.
Regards
Steven