Re: [Utah-astronomy] Some New Shots
David, Very nicely done! On 2009-10-11 18:48, David Rankin wrote:
Joe,
Actually, I hook the camera to the mount using the same dovetail I use for my scope...losmandy style dovetail. I take the tripod head off of my regular camera tripod and hook it to the dovetail then attach that to the mount. There was no scope or guiding involved. Just did a polar alignment and ran at 1.75x sidereal. The alas is pretty good for this sort of thing as long as your at low magnification. The subs I used were between 2 and 2 1/2 minutes. (Fast little lens)
Cheers
David
Joe Bauman wrote:
That's very interesting, David. I assume your camera was piggyback on a telescope that was tracking. What was the telescope, and how long was the exposure? Thanks, Joe
--- On Sun, 10/11/09, David Rankin <David@???> wrote:
From: David Rankin <David@???> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Some New Shots To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@???> Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 11:11 AM
Yes, fall break has arrived. I am back home in Southern UT and finally got some new shots.
Thanks Jay :) David Jay Eads wrote:
David,
Very nicely done!
On 2009-10-11 18:48, David Rankin wrote:
Joe,
Actually, I hook the camera to the mount using the same dovetail I use for my scope...losmandy style dovetail. I take the tripod head off of my regular camera tripod and hook it to the dovetail then attach that to the mount. There was no scope or guiding involved. Just did a polar alignment and ran at 1.75x sidereal. The alas is pretty good for this sort of thing as long as your at low magnification. The subs I used were between 2 and 2 1/2 minutes. (Fast little lens)
Cheers
David
Joe Bauman wrote:
That's very interesting, David. I assume your camera was piggyback on a telescope that was tracking. What was the telescope, and how long was the exposure? Thanks, Joe
--- On Sun, 10/11/09, David Rankin <David@???> wrote:
From: David Rankin <David@???> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Some New Shots To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@???> Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 11:11 AM
Yes, fall break has arrived. I am back home in Southern UT and finally got some new shots.
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