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My Journey

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The trip so far


PaulR1

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Well I have been studying the various ways of looking at the night sky now for the last 9 months or so , after wanting some means to do this for a long time and finally  have the time to put some cash into it.

So here in this blog I will attempt to document my path and try and keep myself on track.

My main interest  is astrophotography so I will start with the equipment I have or intend to obtain , with comments :)

  • Book: Make Every Photon Count: Bought on recommendation of folks in this forum , excellent read and will need to be read more times once my rig is complete.
  • NEQ6 Pro Mount : Found one at a low price which needs some repair work and will be installing a belt drive mod into it. Decided to go right for a decently large mount so I'm not wishing in 6 months time I had done this in the first place.
  • Camera: Canon D450 will be in my hands at the end of the month and I will be doing the IR modification on it. Still undecided on whether or not to do a cooling mod on it as well.
  • Telescope: undecided upon right now and currently using my eyes to identify my way around the sky.
  • Guide scope and guide scope camera: undecided .
  • CAT5 fed USB hub system.
  • EQMod PHD Backyard EOS : this will be setup once I have all the hardware.
  • Assorted stuff : A lot of this I will 3D print I'm sure there will be some things that will be handy , will find out what these when they are needed ;)

Looking forward to fun and interesting times :) will update as we go .

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Decided on a Skywatcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro as my telescope.

Thanks to the comments here :

So now hunting one down :)

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