unromeo21

Last year started to build a home made mount, after playing around two years before with a barn door tracker and a 200mm and a nikon D200. I don't have any pictures from those times, but all I can say is that there was almost nothing to be seen except noise and some tiny smudges of color, one can barely recognize the M42. This year, after many many hours of work on the mount, got ambitious and bought a second hand Celestron C8, OAG unit, ZWO ASI120MM for autoguiding and a SONY NEX 3N (modded to full frame) to keep it light. So from practically no experience in AP, i jumped straight to a high difficult level, with nothing in between. Unfortunately, I barely got a few hours of good seeing this year, mostly used to adjustments on the mount, adjusting and testing the OAG. Two or three half nights so far with clear sky, clouds creeping in around midnight, every night. Really annoying. Got time to do only one sub so far, which I present it to you. Stars not yet perfectly round, I think I had some issues with wind. So only one sub around 3 minutes long, home made mount running Onstep controller, Celestron C8, OAG - ASI120MM, SONY NEX 3N full spectrum. Processed a little bit to give it more contrast and color. Looking forward to some clear nights.. but it seems that my location is cursed..