[wayne anderson (Wayne)]

Wednesday night was a great night for both visual and imaging
I Setup just on sunset with a quick simple alignment and set in for visual observing NGC 4755, M8, M20, M 16, M17, NGC 253, NGC 104.

M20 Triffid (NGC 6514) looked really good so I just slotted in the cheap camera quick focus and set it on auto for continuous groups of 5 shots at 25sec exposure all this took only 2 minutes to setup then I went in for dinner. After around 1.5 hours returned, removed the camera and loaded the data into DSS and went back out for more visual viewing until the moon was high.

Then a quick setup again for imaging 47 Tuc (NGC 104) this took only 2 minutes then I let it go on auto for around half an hour while I looked at the moon in my 8x56 binos.

I am pretty happy with this result considering the scope was only setup in Alt/Az mode with a quick rough alignment and the cheap camera and adapters cost me less than $200 on ebay. Also I am still very much a beginner at this only been imaging a few months now.

All in all a good night imaging and quality visual observing time, the best of both worlds.

M20 Triffid (NGC 6514)

160 x 25sec subs at iso 1600
50 flats
50 darks
50 bias
Stacked in DDS
12 inch LX200 (Alt/Az setup) and Sony Nex 3 Camera

47 Tucana (NGC 104)

70 x 10 sec subs at iso 1600
50 flats
50 darks
50 bias
Stacked in DDS
12 inch LX200 (Alt/Az setup) and Sony Nex 3 Camera