Carl, I do my focus with a Bahtinov mask on nearest star and very careful on centering so Suppose I must be doing something wrong but what or is it the 4x, locked OK when tacking them.
That shot is far from out of focus, you have to remember that the rcx10" + a 4 x Teleview power mate thats a massive focal length, to keep the stars nearly perfect round thats good going!
Nice capture keep up the good work!
Ide suggest that at that level of astrophotography that you should post that into the normal Deep space section definitely worthy!
Looks good peter, I had a look on wikipedia for this item, they had a reference to omeara's Caldwell book ( which I have) and can confidently say your image is better than either of theirs. A huge focal length, and quite a challenge, it opens up some real opportunities for further projects.
If I do planets at same setup will they be better, tried a once or twice with out x4 but thy came out terrible.
peter
Pull the guide camera off the guidescope, put it on the 10 inch, use a capture program for the guide camera, do your guiding with a hand paddle while you watch the screen, stack in registax and away you go........ Do the moon first.
Thanks very much Fred, did not realise it is so small, as for scope it has taken me a long time to get it to this it now on goto gets what I want on h9c chip very nealy centered.
