I have been trying my hand at hand-guiding. There has to be a Chuckism in there somewhere. Hand guiding for paraplegics or something. Anyway I took a 15 Second shot piggyback while guiding through the 100mm with a 6mm lens. A Seattleite just happened by and you can see how shaky my hand is…hehe. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1249&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 I tried it on a Chuck Hard’s weightless mount this time. I think I have better control with it than trying to hand guide the GEM. One thing that throws me off though is that the image is back wards in the eyepiece so when I adjust the scope to keep the image centered I go the wrong way. It takes some getting used to. I had to set up the shot so that I was always pushing on the scope in one direction. If I got too far out then I just stop and wait for the star to catch up. I made the shot at 70mm, f/5 for 15 sec. If I back off to about 50mm I think I could do better and maybe I could go longer. Oh yeah, the other problem. It is a good thing I am doing this in my backyard. I would hate to drive out to the Pin ‘n Pole and then discover my problems. I planned how I was going to frame the shot ahead of time to include all of the Orion asterism only to discover that I had attached my camera to the mount ring. When I rotated the scope to frame the shot the camera stayed put; duh! I guess I have to buy another set of rings. Such is the life of an old dog trying to learn new tricks. Jim
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I have been trying my hand at hand-guiding. There has to be a Chuckism in there somewhere. Hand guiding for paraplegics or something. Anyway I took a 15 Second shot piggyback while guiding through the 100mm with a 6mm lens. A Seattleite just happened by and you can see how shaky my hand isâ¦hehe. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1249&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 I tried it on a Chuck Hardâs weightless mount this time. I think I have better control with it than trying to hand guide the GEM. One thing that throws me off though is that the image is back wards in the eyepiece so when I adjust the scope to keep the image centered I go the wrong way. It takes some getting used to.  I had to set up the shot so that I was always pushing on the scope in one direction. If I got too far out then I just stop and wait for the star to catch up. I made the shot at 70mm, f/5 for 15 sec. If I back off to about 50mm I think I could do better and maybe I could go longer.  Oh yeah, the other problem. It is a good thing I am doing this in my backyard. I would hate to drive out to the Pin ân Pole and then discover my problems. I planned how I was going to frame the shot ahead of time to include all of the Orion asterism only to discover that I had attached my camera to the mount ring. When I rotated the scope to frame the shot the camera stayed put; duh! I guess I have to buy another set of rings. Such is the life of an old dog trying to learn new tricks.  Jim
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As one old dog to another, I'd say that's impressive guiding. If the satellite hadn't shown up, it would have looked wonderful. Thanks for sharing, Joe --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Jim Gibson <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Hand guiding for paraplegics To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 8:32 AM I have been trying my hand at hand-guiding. There has to be a Chuckism in there somewhere. Hand guiding for paraplegics or something. Anyway I took a 15 Second shot piggyback while guiding through the 100mm with a 6mm lens. A Seattleite just happened by and you can see how shaky my hand is…hehe. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1249&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 I tried it on a Chuck Hard’s weightless mount this time. I think I have better control with it than trying to hand guide the GEM. One thing that throws me off though is that the image is back wards in the eyepiece so when I adjust the scope to keep the image centered I go the wrong way. It takes some getting used to. I had to set up the shot so that I was always pushing on the scope in one direction. If I got too far out then I just stop and wait for the star to catch up. I made the shot at 70mm, f/5 for 15 sec. If I back off to about 50mm I think I could do better and maybe I could go longer. Oh yeah, the other problem. It is a good thing I am doing this in my backyard. I would hate to drive out to the Pin ‘n Pole and then discover my problems. I planned how I was going to frame the shot ahead of time to include all of the Orion asterism only to discover that I had attached my camera to the mount ring. When I rotated the scope to frame the shot the camera stayed put; duh! I guess I have to buy another set of rings. Such is the life of an old dog trying to learn new tricks. Jim _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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