slickfonzy

I've lost count of the number of times animals have made me jump when observing over the years.  One of the most recent I can recall was something that made no noise at all - I was still setting up and turned round to see two inquisitive fox cubs sitting only two metres away, curiously watching what I was doing.  It doesn't help that I'm naturally very jumpy anyway, I often tell my wife she needs to wear a bell, I get mild frights on a regular basis when she appears silently in the room behind me and starts talking to me!

Connect the two cables as follows:

Gnd-Gnd

Rx-Tx

Tx-Rx

Why they are reversed?

The data transmission (Tx) from the device at one end of the cable needs to go to the receiver (Rx) of the device at the other end of the cable.

 Thats pretty cool Ian, although you seem to have made a common mistake that I'm quite often guilty of. short on time so I rush focus . No matter what, get the focus right or the rest will suffer. It's a steep learning curve hey, but a cracking start none the less .

Thanks, Scott, you're quite right about rushing the focus, at least I've learnt that one early on  .  The more I read the steeper the learning curve seems to get, but I like a challenge!  Now, if only we had some clear skies...

Okay, here's my first effort, rather poor compared to the standard of some of the photos above, but I didn't think it was too bad as the second photo I've taken with my scope, and my first effort at something deep sky!  I'd thrown the scope together quickly after the cloud suddenly cleared a couple of weeks ago, so polar alignment was almost non existent and the longest sub I could manage was 20s!  Only six subs were usable, stacked in DSS with dark frames but no flats.  Canon 400D at ISO1600 on my Tal-2M.