Hi, this is my first post here
Tonight I was out in my back garden with my heq5 and a Canon 60d with a Canon EF L 70-200mm lens attached. I slewed to my target at 11pm (NGC 6992) and about an hour later started taking 1m20s exposures with the help of Magic lantern. Then at about 00:30 my neighbour shouted out of their bedroom window "you're keeping us awake!" which shocked me because I didn't think the neighbours would be able to hear a DSLR mirror closing – their window from the extension on their house is about 20 meters away.
Regardless I ended up calling it a night and now I am really paranoid about the noise I am making at night. If anything I was concerned about the noise of the heq5 slewing to targets but I didn't expect a camera to be an issue.
So now I am in a bit of a problem – I am thinking about wrapping the heq5 in sound proofing material and getting CCD astro camera and possibly manually slewing to targets. I just find it difficult to believe the neighbours could not only hear but actually get woken up by a camera mirror at distance.
Has anyone else face these issues, any advice?
John