Don't you love it when things go wrong....
Earlier this week I went to my dark sky site (girlfriends family farm), it was a bit of a rush to get everything sorted and the cars loaded up with tent and camping gear but I was confident I had everything I needed, mount - check, scopes - check, camera's - check, lenses - check, Solar power system - check, etc etc etc.
Got down there before sunset and had myself all set up, sky was clear and the Sky Quality Meter gave a reading of 21.7.... everything was perfect, until I went to plug in the timer-remote for the 60Da..... ummmm.... hmmmm bugger.
"It's Ok" I think to myself, I'll use the netbook.... hmmm BackYard EOS trial has ended, ok then, I have AstroPhotography Tool here somewhere.... ummm ok, no I don't.
Nevermind, I'll use Canon's EOS Utility.... ohhhh crap.
Aha! I have AstroArt v5 and it has DSLR control..... yes, yes it does... if you have the plugin... Aaaargh!!
No internet within cooee and a 6 hour 600km round trip to return home to get/install any of the above options just didn't appeal to me so I was limited to 30second exposures in manual mode.... waste of time.
I did manually shoot a 3 hour widefield timelapse (~250 shots) to try to salvage the trip, but at 6400 ISO to get anything useful with 30sec exposures, the noise is not looking great
