The Running Chicken IC 2944

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Hi. Good conditions last night allowed me to have a go at the Running Chicken.
There were a few problems at the start, bad alignment and bent spider veins causing extra diffraction spikes. After reading up on an Iceinspace thread, I fixed the spider vein. I then got the alignment really good that allowed 5 mins exposures. I opted on 4 mins mostly and varied from ISO 400-800.
Unguided, unmodded 500d, neq6 pro, sw8"f5 blue tube 1000mm fl.
Total of 1 hr 16 mins exp.
Thanks for looking.
Steve.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Nice Steve!

Clear skies eh, lucky you we had clouds

5 minutes unguided very good!

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Rod771

Nice Steve!

Clear skies eh, lucky you we had clouds

5 minutes unguided very good!

Thanks. Yeah I thought I would make the most of it as there are clouds predicted until next week
I'm still trying to understand this polar scope. I thought the first alignment wiuld have been good, I had the Octans in the Aterism of polar scope but no good. When I retried, I only got 2 of the stars in the polar scope, the bush blocked the others and this was the alignment that worked
Not complaining, just want to be able to reproduce it constantly
Cheers.
Steve.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Nice image Steve