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Old 04-01-2011, 06:14 PM
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Widefield Constellation exercise

Hi All,

A prelude before I go in for shoulder surgery, I have raided my DOB EQ Platform motor and tied it to a super cheap EQ3 mount that I had from my very first scope.

The main reason is I don't think I could handle a 6 month recovery without taking some photos so I ran a trial on a couple of wide-field constellation shots including Orion and Most of Canis Major. This setup is much lighter than my DOB and EQ platform so hopefully I will be able to start re-imaging about 6 weeks instead of 6 months after the operation.

This is a test run at home an hope to and hope to trial tonight at a dark location subject to the weather holding.

Anyway these are unguided 20 captures 60 Seconds @ 800ISO. Had some trouble getting colours right but feel I may have done OK. Not a lot of detail but a challenge is nice.

The attached JPG's do no justice so I have upload a positive and negative image on my website. Large download about 15MB each total four images.

Hi Rez image viewable from - http://www.waelect.com.au/mswhin63/M...ons/index.html

Enjoy and comments welcome.
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Old 04-01-2011, 06:34 PM
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Looks like you've managed to build someting quite workable there Malcolm, considering this is your first try using it I'm thinking you have quite a lot of scope of use for the setup, so it should tie you over

Hope the opp goes well.

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