Friday, August 24, 2012

Addition to last post

     Heres an example of wide field photo of
     M27 Dumbell Nebula
         If you want you can crop the image with photoshop
                            and heres the results

                        The Dumbell Nebula Taken with an 80 mm achromat
                                          and a Canon Rebel XT

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Aug 23rd Guiding tests

Finally got the PC to take the Guide camera  Meade  and the Canon Rebel XT all together
Also running StarryNight pro at the same time.Programs running were
 Nebulosity
PHD Guiding
Starry Night Pro
That meant 2 camera,s on usb ports and Starrynight for telescope control on the serial port
Quite a handfull for any PC
                                                 Imaged a one minuite Vega




                                                Also did the Coat hanger for Ray

                                                  This is a cropped image of M57.
                                                  .Not great but does show the ring



                                                  Heres the image it was cropped from

                                                         Its M57 but wide field

                              All taken with the Canon XT and the 80 mm F5 short tube Nexstar