Decided to test out my new mount and its guiding on the weekend. I was using my 10" SCT at 2500mm and a small 90mm mak (FL1250mm) to guide. I took a 27x1min shot of IC4406 with a DSI II Pro camera and was quite pleased that with EQMOD not only were the gotos acceptable (on the Chip) but that I was able to get the RA and Dec lines of EQMOD to be a flat line with very minimal corrections. Used Alignmaster to polar align.
Took some photos of very small galaxies which I have not processed as yet, but will do so when I get time. I was interested to see that there is some faint detail in this planetary nebula just coming through.
Edit:- Did a slight stretch as I noticed that the ansae were further out than what my first photo showed (its in the middle).
Finally got around to doing two galaxies (NGC7184 & NGC5643) which are attached
Last edited by allan gould; 04-08-2009 at 08:20 PM.
It looks like the new setup is going to work out well. The Oval Planetary is very similar to mine in scale and depth (as you would expect). The galaxies are also showing some nice structure.
Thanks for the comments. I was more interested in the guiding than pretty pictures and I'm happy with the new mount and estatic with EQMOD. Its a pity all software is not this responsive and well programmed/functional.
