I thought I would have the first serious attempt at imaging with my new DSI II Pro on Saturday night.
What a disaster - 3-3.5 hr of frustration with my HEQ5 mount. Suddenly it would not initialise properly and gave "NO connection to MC - stand alone mode only". WHAT THE??????!!!!!!
Then it would appear to be OK but gotos were all over the place and then the damned thing would not communicate with the planetarium program. Fiddled with everything and was contemplating digging a big hole and throwing the lot in there when I swapped the handset cable end for end and all became sweet and nice. Bloody thing must have known how close it came to permanent fusion.
It was getting late, so I decided to image NGC4945 as it was overhead but the clouds kept rolling in and so I only managed to get 14x 2min shots before I started to pack up at 3 in the morning. What a fiasco - not the camera but everything else. Anyway here is my first real effort with the DSI II - but need a lot more data to smooth it out and get more detail.
Marc, Leon, Greg and Duncan thanks for the kind words.
Its the frustrating aspect of merging electronics, dew and telescopes that sometimes can really get to you
Just luminance and not enough of it. See Peter_4059's posts for what a good setup and data can accomplish with a DSI II . Deep down I'm beginning to envy his abilities [and he's modest too].
Last edited by allan gould; 16-03-2009 at 06:24 PM.
They say "He who dies with the most toys wins". I got all the toys but I think they die early because of the stress of getting all the toys to work, so it should be........
"He who dies with the most working toys wins"
