Desmond

Great - thanks for the info - much appreciated. Lots to improve on I'll try and get this mount going in EQ mode (failed a few times but I know now what I did wrong). Then I hope to get longer exposure times going. I think 90 seconds is about as much as I can do in AZ mode. Yep - bright Moon, eager beaver to test things out!

Great - thanks for the insight - I'll get this going in EQ mode for my next assignment

I have had trailing at some elevations, but if the scope is fairly high, it seems to cope for 90 seconds - but EQ mode is the future

Hi, I recently spent my Xmas money on an L-Enhance filter as I have seen amazing results with this filter. I took it for a test run on the Y Cas Nebula last night (not the best night, but when is?) I managed to get around 43 mins of time. I normally shoot 1 min exposures with my 1000D modified camera but I thought I'd go for 90 seconds as the filter would reduce brightness? (any thoughts on exposure times here would be great) The results were not as great as I was hoping for - see below. O over stretched it just to see if I had captured the 'ghost'. He's there, but it turns out really grainy and not the nice subtle wispy nebula that I see from other folks. So my questions are: - is this a tricky nebula target? - What exposure times should I run? - Is 43 mins way too little for this (or any) target? - any other advice??? Setup is: Canon 1000D - modified L-Enhance filter Skywatcher 72ED Telescope Skywatcher AzGTI mount (AZ mode at the moment until I can get polar alignment working with SharpCap) Any thoughts, hints, tips greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!