night one; antaries, after setting up the sky was great, lucked out with the alignment simple compass and smart phone level and bingo five minute unguided subs 9x298sec pentax A 200mm @ f4 (wideopen) iso1250
night two; tried to teach myself to drift align after several hour subs have gone from 5 to 2 minutes
i suck at drift aligning!!!so 10x 117 sec pentax 28mm @ f4 iso1000 for one shot and iso 1250 the other
night three; a lesson on drift aligning from dennis zambelis, thanks dennis.......then out of the darkness appears mike sidonio
five minute demo with the pole scope and i am getting 15min+ on eta carina with no noticeable drift!!! thanks mike
. Then you know what happens.............clouds
. But i am wrapped with the stuff i have and have a couple yet to process, now i need to learn how to improve that, maybe control those blue/white stars better ;-)
regards brad