Hi all
First of all may i apologise to all in perth as i have bought a telescope and as such has been cloudy for the past few days
Anyway first of all a bit of background i used to do a bit of basic astrophotography long before moving to oz from the uk but found light pollution to be a major problem/put off. Anyway I recently bought a WO Megrez 72mm FD and found an neq6 pro going cheap so bought that knowing i can upgrade as i get back into it. For starters i just want to do wideish field unguided long exposures to get a feel for the current software and techniques and slowly add more euipment as i feel i need to (thinking bigger scope + guider then full ccd camera at the moment).
So first things first i am going to need power. I plan on travelling just to get away from perths centre so i need portable power. My current thinking if getting a deep cycle battery and putting it in an enclosure and wiring some fused 12v cigarette lighter plugs off it. Currently i would need one for the mount and one for the laptop. How does that sound?
Second thing just to get started would be a T-adapter for my 60d and a field flattener. T-adapters and pretty standard but it is the field flattener that is the problem. I was looking at getting the Hotech SCA field flattener but everywhere looks to be out of stock i have seen the Orion field flattener on Bintels website would this be ok?
Thirdly using the laptop to guide the mount. I know about the eqmod and have been doing a lot of reading do i need this
http://www.bintel.com.au/Mounts---Tr...oductview.aspx
To run the mount and get all the features
or does it really depend on the version of my mount (i have 3.25 on the controller)?
Cheers
Paul