monikatt

Thanks for all the good feedback and advise. I`m using Altair capture as software. I`m gona be more careful when it comes to the gain setting next time I`m out - and a few millisecond only. Hopefully I`m gona try it again this week.

I`m using T2-spacers as recommended from Altair astro: a 20 mm, a 10, mm and a 7,5 mm - and an adapter from M48 to T2. It might be very overexposed, I tryed to set gain to almost zero, but it didnt do any difference

I recently bought a cooled hypercam for astro imaging. I have never used anything else then DSLR before, so I have no experience using this kind of camera. I tryed to image the moon, since that is the easiest target to find on the night sky. But it appears as a light bulb when I try to photograph it. I got a huge lightbulb on the screen and when I attached the recommended spacers the lightbulb became worse, and its not even possibly to see what I tried to take a photo of. The photos shows my very first attempt with the 30 mm nosepiece that came with the camera – here you can see the moon. The other photo is using the spacers that was recommended. I have tried to focus in various ways and I have also read the manual Altair astro have on their web page. I have no clue of what I might doing wrong. Anyone have any experience with this? My equipment: refractor Starwave 80 mm triplet APO, Altair astro flattener 1.0x, Altair astro hypercam 1600M. I dont have any filter