happy-kat

Some nice crater relief captures

Would an IR only filter have helped with the seeing? 

Ooo a comet, good luck

It makes for a very different challenge from DSO, sounds hard.

Particularly the second image I liked and your analogy was very descriptive

Somewhere Gina did the calculations as to whether there was a need it not to create a cover on the allsky she was building.

Hi

What were thinking of imaging the most as the two cameras are slightly different?

The field of view calculator under resources can show you the fov difference between the two cameras.

What mount do you have for your telescope?

Is the trunk the small trunk at 9pm please? I like the vibrancy of the colour way.

Does this help

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/397175-connecting-az-gti-mount-to-stellarium-on-pc-via-wi-fi-help/?do=findComment&comment=4264235

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/396375-three-diagonals-which-will-triumph/

Have a look at the recent diagonal review shoot out there was a surprise inexpensive light diagonal by celestron

Does your telescope have a fixed mounting point or is it adjustable

The difference with the Wizard is well like chalk and cheese looks so much cleaner, it's great to read your perseverance to fettle the settings to fix your mount.

That's super you had a good session, and as you mention you could use the 25mm with your barlow next time. 

Could you raise the rejection limit

What bortle are your skies where you image from the most.

I've seen a ball head used in a way that makes the tripod a smooth push to like a dob. The ball head neck is dropped into the groove and the tension is such that the base gives smooth azimuth and the head in the groove smooth altitude adjustment (keeping the ball head dropped the telescope pivots to raise and lower the front). Perhaps if the balance is right it would naturally hold altitude with no tension.

Well done all, quite fascinating to see the energy of the close up. 

Hi

Whilst waiting for a reply you might find this thread useful, lots of AZ-GTi users.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/387014-skywatcher-az-gti-mount-owners-thread/page/1

It's lovely to see the images shared and getting the moon to is nice.

This year so far there hasn't been the large white areas seen last year I think it was.

Super, with stellarium you could look to see what is in that portion of sky as you'll know where to look (turn on constellations), just for fun.

It's a great site you can also view the full size plate solve.

You might want to share only the image with the platesolve and not your private location panel on the right. The post and image you can edit if you wanted.

You could use astrometry.net to plate solve your image and see what part of the sky you captured. Stellarium is a great planetarium too.

For experimenting try ever longer exposures in 1 second increments and different ISO to understand what G9x does and what settings make the image too noisy when looked at afterwards on a computer.

Then you would know what you could try now and what is the maximum exposure and ISO you could use. If you find ISO500 and 10 seconds is ok then could use that for startrails.

The eagle nebula was taken with a telescope and substantial mount, for now with a static tripod have a look at Forrest Tanaka M31 if you like YT

Star trails can be many or say 20 to get started 5 second exposure images, your camera perhaps no higher than 500iso take raw images, starstax or startrails both free to stack. GIMP is good editor and free to post process further.