Gralston92

No problem mate I’ll take a bit extra time trying with the mask. Thanks for your reply. Think it’ll just be a case of try again and again 😅just thought that even all that considered I should still have gathered more light in the pictures but not happened for me yet. Cheers again 👍🏼

Shimrod that second photo is due to me moving when taking the photo on my phone this morning. I used the bahtinov and had it focused and locked in. Even at that I’ve attached one that’s got a decent focus and still hasn’t exposed that much?

Thanks I’ll bare that in mind. I was only trying 30 sec photos and iso between 800-6400 but I thought I would have revealed a lot more than that. Could see more looking up myself that what the camera revealed which seemed odd to me. Try again then ha😴 Thanks again for your reply!

I’m not using any computer software just dslr and mount. But still thought surely it would collect more than that? I focused with a bahtinov when zoomed in.

Hi all, first post so any help will be greatly appreciated. I recently bought a skywatcher 130pds (after the amazing reviews from almost everyone). I have a coma corrector and 600d dslr. Out trying to get started last night and could grab the moon n problem, yet when I moved to stars, focused with mask and raised exposure time it didn’t do much good. I have basically a single dot as a star. (also have a clip in LP filter) which makes me think I’m doing something wrong or missing the point. I went from 30 secs - 1:00 and still doesn’t seem to collect any more. Thing I’ve noticed is my aperture setting on camera says it can’t be set as there is no lens but I’m into the focuser on the scope?? I’ve attached a few photos to try and explain what I mean. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.