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Old 11-10-2021, 03:15 PM
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Helix

This is my first guided shot of anything and I kind of leapt into the deep end after buying a HEQ5 Pro. Still getting my head around using eqmod, Stellarium, PHD2 and Astrophotography Tool to control/automate everything, but it all seems to integrate nicely.

Using HEQ5 Pro, Evostar ED80, Canon 700D, Svbony 50mm guidescope, ASI120mm mini autoguider all plugged into my aging Acer laptop that has 4 usb ports(bonus).

100 X 3 min exposures, 30 flats and 50 bias frames. No darks because 1) I'm lazy and 2) There seems to be those that say use them with a dslr and those that say don't.

Processing with Deepsky Stacker and Startools.

I'm pretty happy with it but am I pushing the limits of my dslr? Or have I picked a hard target to practice on? Thoughts?

thanks for looking

Mark
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