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Originally Posted by UK1
Bill
I just need someone to help me get started just going over set ups and drift align all the newbie things cant seem to find anyone doing astronomy up this way. was hoping to do some photography have all the equiptment.
no clubs, or any people I can get into contact either.
never mind just give it up and sell it all.
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Hey Rob
Stating the obvious with what others have said - ie don't give up yet mate! You seemed to have got the gear to do all that you want and it's a shame if you give it all up now especially with the monetary losses you'd cop as well since I noticed of late that things in the IIS Classifieds are moving veeeeery slooooowly too
Just to let you know I do have a lot of imaging gear and wish now that I could get rid of half of what I own because I don't use any of it but I started right off wanting to do the astro-imaging stuff since 2009 and I spent many mozzie-bitten nights for the first 3 weeks figuring out how to do the damned polar drift align gig and finally it all twigged for me especially after I went to this website:
http://www.petesastrophotography.com/guidingsim.html and I discovered that I actually had the thing down pat BUT stupid me, I did not turn on sidereal tracking on the mount and no wonder the damned star that I was aligning on kept on zoooooming past my reticule EP!!
Could you tell me if you do know how to set up the mount in rough alignment to the SCP (to true South)? Perhaps you should not need to answer this here if you don't want to, just PM me and we can take this forward off-line if you wish and let's see if we can get you going
Otherwise if you are coming to Perth for a visit anytime (especially aro new moon time would be better as we can do some actual imaging) I would be more than willing to spend the hours with you with my similar gear (EQ6 Pro mount that I could loan you the use of - you just need to bring your 80mm OTA/camera) and show you the works either at my remote obsy or at Tammin (ASWA's Dark Sky site and I'm a sitting Councillor as the Site Adimiinistrator for Tammin) and I'm sure you'll be grinning from ear-to-ear after!!
Let's see how you'd like to go forward - over to you Rob
HTH
Cheers
Bill