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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Rocket Pooch on Jun 30, 2006, 13:01:56

Title: VC200L
Post by: Rocket Pooch on Jun 30, 2006, 13:01:56
Well I actually nearly got to take a half good picture with the vixen at prime last night.  

I'm not going to post the images I took here because I did not alight the mount properly on the pier and I was getting drift in dec and with a 400mm telescope trying to guide a 1800mm scope you can guess it did not look that hot.  But I'm positive I'll get it sorted within the new few days.  So I'm going to drift align the scope tonight and use a 2x barlow on the guide scope to see if I can get better tracking, if this works well then wow its going to be good.

Just to give you an idea of image size, at prime M27 covers 90% of the HX916 chip!  With a F6.3 reducer its still big on the chip.....