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Using my Evostar ED80 pro and a canon 700d with no guiding, I managed to get my first complete DSO. 182x30” subs at ISO 1600 15 flats 15 darks 20 bias/offset stacked in DSS edited on PixInsight total exposure time of ~ 1 hour 30 minutes There is quite a lot of noise and some of the large stars have trailing due to imperfect polar alignment, but overall I was glad with how it turned out. 611C6392-0F43-472C-B74F-B8CE80984379.tiff

Alright I will try that. Thanks for the help

The camera I’m using is a Canon 700D. I definitely used RAW for all images I took and kept the image quality the same so I have no idea why the file is a different size

Yesterday when I went to stack my images after a long session, I got an error message from DSS saying that some of the files were incompatible due to size or colour channel. I looked at all of them and the only different files were the bias frames which had a different colour Channel and a smaller image width and height for some reason. I unchecked the bias files and the processing worked so I was wondering why I couldn’t use the bias files and how to use them like I had done so previously without doing anything differently.

Ok thanks

I have an EQ5 Mount with an RA motor drive so it doesn’t automatically allign

Ok thanks for letting me know. What is drift alignment exactly? I’ve read a bit about it but I don’t fully understand it.

Basically Polaris is blocked by my house so I cannot use it to align and I was wondering whether or not there is a way to align without seeing Polaris. I’d like to do some imaging so it would have to be aligned well enough that there won’t be noticeable trails. Thanks!

Thanks for the help

I’m not sure because it hasn’t been delivered yet but it may come with a battery box. Do you know what kind of batteries I will need to power it?

What is the best thing I can use to power my EQ5 RA motor and what kind of supply do I need (what voltage and current)? Also, would a normal laptop charger work as long as it has the correct output? Thanks.

Thanks a lot for the info I didn’t know you could take images like that with only 1 second exposures!

The reason why I’m asking is because I can’t really take any exposures longer than 0.5 seconds because I don’t have an RA motor drive yet, but when I get one I will compare them.

Basically, I was wondering if there would be a difference in detail between, for example, one 15 minute exposure and 1800 0.5 second exposures.

Thanks for the advice, and also the reason I took a photo of my screen was because my login details for this site are saved on my phone so I posted this on my phone

I’ll probably just get some motors but thanks for the info

Ok Thanks

Yes, I was looking at the stars by using a finderscope and the thing I was using to manually turn the telescope was this https://www.harrisontelescopes.co.uk/acatalog/skywatcher-slow-motion-cable-set-eq2-eq5-az3.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm7aOuYLa5wIVRrDtCh0fyQAYEAQYAiABEgI_rvD_BwE

I recently got a photography setup consisting of an EQ5 mount, ED80 and a canon 700d. For the first time, I tried to photograph the Orion Nebula but It didn’t go too well. The actual nebula itself was distinguishable, however since I was using the manual slow turn cable to account for the earth’s rotation I found it extremely difficult to actually get a photo without any stars trailing. Are there any ways to reduce this or do a better job manually, or am I going to have to get some motors for the mount? I’ll include the image I took with a 20 second exposure (it’s slightly blurry and cropped because I took a photo of my computer screen)

Yeah the m48 fits into the camera but idk what part of the telescope to connect it to

Thanks for the info

Yes I bought it new. The box didn’t contain a 2” ring but there was a smaller T-adapter tube thing but it doesn’t fit my m48

I recently bought an m48 t ring to connect my canon camera to my telescope, but don’t know what to connect the other end of the ring to. Also, how would I attach a 1.25” filter to the setup as well. The telescope I have is a skywatcher ed80. Thanks.

Sorry I got it wrong. I checked the part and it said T-adapter. Is that the part that I connect to the m48 ring?

I recently bought a skywatcher ED80 and was wondering how I can connect it to my canon 750d (I.e. what accessories do i need). The telescope came with this thing that said T ring but i can’t see how it’ll attach to the camera. Also, would I be able to connect a Barlow and a 1.25” filter to it? Thanks for any help.