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Originally Posted by obsidianphotos
Not really sure about the glow issue Steve (the darker the skies the longer you can expose for). What really strikes me about that first image in particular is that you mention you drift aligned so I am assuming you were using a tracking mount but the star trailing is of a length that I would expect from a fixed tripod and that camera/lens combo. Are you sure you were actually tracking? Even a very basic plonk down the mount facing south should give you nice round stars at that focal length and 1 minute exposure time as long as the mount is tracking.
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hi Greg. I was doing my version of what I thought was tracking haha that was to press the 8x RA drive on the hand controller then hit the shutter. I tried both the left and right RA directions including 4x and 2x speeds. I also tried doing the same in DEC to see if that would change anything...it didn't. I have never tried tracking imaging really before and I believed that was how it was done. Maybe not
. The mount is a eq3 with RA and DEC motors and I was using just the rings with the piggy back thread to mount the camera. I have read people guide by looking through the EP and counter the drift that way. I may try that way? So I thought I was tracking but no matter which speed I used, the results were the same ? back to the old drawing board haha
