Hi,
long story short, I am in the process of finding a telescope dedicated to astrophotography, but money is tight, so it has to wait a few months. In the meantime I have a heavily modified heritage 150p that has been a beast. I have made many modifications to it, and honestly works very well. I decided to move into taking astrophotography now. I got a second hand ZWO533 (color) from a close friend, and I just wanted to see if it worked, so I threw my telescope on my mount (EQM35PRO) and attached the camera. I took 15, and 30 second exposure pictures to see what it would like it and here is what the image looked like (will attach below).
Why does it look like this? It should be properly collimated, and I let the scope sit outside and get acclimated to the weather. I let the camera cool itself. Am I out of focus or something? It would be nice if I could get this telescope to work for photography tbh, I’m honesty lost, any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I’m sure someone has experienced this before or maybe I’m dumb, honestly prob the latter.
thanks in advance