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First astrophoto (for 25 years)
So, when I was 20 I used to have a 5" reflector with just an RA clock drive ... took some OK shots with my dad's old Nikon SLR attached. I used to enjoy the hour of fiddling about with polar alignment, 40' single exposure, two weeks' wait for the lab to return your photos of ... lovely little rings because you didn't focus the thing ...
Anyway, after a 25+-year hiatus on Wednesday I took posession of a Meade LX80 10" SCT and Canon 60Da. First ting I did was to take 20 exposures of 47 Tucanae of which 11 were moderately usable - max 30" as I haven't sorted autoguiding yet (or more precisely, haven't worked out how to attach the Orion 80mm short scope for autoguiding to the LX80), ISO 800-1600.
This is my first attempt at stacking, using DSS - I took some darks, but no flats and have done no other postprocessing (it's going to be a steep learning curve!).
Any feedback/guidance welcome!
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