Kim, I'm really looking for a versatile system that will allow me to do both wide-field as well as the narrower-field, higher mag. stuff. Some of my best shots were camera-only, hand-guided through an 80mm refractor, on the old predecessor to the EQ-1 mount, with numerous home-brew modifications (such as adding electric dec and a platform that allowed 2 cameras to be used simultaneously- I have 2 Pentax K-1000's) On 1/26/11, Kim Hyatt <kimharch@cut.net> wrote:
Thanks, Chuck. Let me/us know how this works out for you. I've long wanted to do a bit more wide-field imaging; maybe this would work for me, too. I've really had a lot of fun with a barn-door mount and the 18-70mm lens on my Nikon D70. Lot's of "old" technology, but it works for me. I wouldn't mind a cheap alternative to the kind of imaging that Joe, Steve and others do (though I'm not foolish enough to expect the same fantastic results).