After my first attempt to polar align via the drift method, I thought I'd snap a quick pic of Eta Car. This is 2nd light for the new scope (TV127 NP) and camera (20D). (I snapped M42 before Christmas.)
Focus was (obviously) a bit rough due to no live view; just focused through the view finder which is very difficult at the angle it was at!
The pic is a single frame of 60 seconds, with about 15 seconds of simple processing in PS2. ICNR was turned on, so there was a dark subtraction in-camera. There is no guiding.
I think that this is my first
AP post. It will be all onwards and upwards from here as I get some practice focusing and managing a few other aspects of AP.
Chris