Amazing shots! I always carry two cables. One is programmable, the other is a basic shutter control. I learned the hard way back in the days of mechanical cables and emulsion photography. Had cables fail more than once. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:18 AM, <gazebo4sale@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi,
Murphy sat down by my side the other night. I had traveled to a dark site at the South Fork of Chalk Creek and set up. I soon found that I had a short in my long exposure cable and the Ascom driver for my Temma 2 mount had vanished into that far off place where lost cyber-stuff goes.
I was not able to autoguide but I did manage to splice the exposure cable by flashlight.
I aimed the scope at M8 and shot 100 second exposures at ISO 1600 with my Takahashi FSQ 106 N.