RE: [Utah-astronomy] Vdb142 in Ha - The Elephants Trunk
<Chuck Said: <Tracking appears to be excellent, Tyler. Do you guide <manually, or let an autoguider do it? Nice image. Thanks Chuck. You must have me confused with someone made of steel.... I use the autoguider chip in my SBIG camera. That exposure was 4 hours long. It takes a tougher man than me to sit at the eyepiece and manually guide for that long! Cheers, Tyler
Thanks, I wasn't sure if it was one continuous exposure or several stacked shorter ones, for a cumulative 4 hours- a task not requiring the abilities of Kal-El. The relative blindness of the imager to light pollution is heartening for me. I want to build a backyard observatory, perhaps as a retirement project, and living along the Wasatch front means that for visual work any "faint fuzzy" observation is mostly out of the question. It would be primarily for solar-system objects and stellar observing. But CCD imaging would expand the potential targets to the deep-sky. Keep that Tak busy, Tyler! --- Tyler Allred <tylerallred@earthlink.net> wrote:
Thanks Chuck. You must have me confused with someone made of steel.... I use the autoguider chip in my SBIG camera. That exposure was 4 hours long.
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