M42 19/02/2012

[smutly]

Hi all

This is my second attempt at M42 from the back garden.

This is 5 darks and 6 x 30 sec subs at ISO 800 on a Canon 40d and through a SkyWatcher 150p on a EQ3-2 with a dodgy dec motor driving the ra (long story.....).

This was my first attempt in January 2011

[spaceboy]

Great improvement Jeff.

[zedds]

Yes, definitely a great improvement. Well done.

[smutly]

Thanks.

What helped a lot, to get it in focus, was the live view on the Canon 40d, pick a star on the screen, zoom in x 10, focus, job done.

The first one i took was on my old Canon 350d which didn't have live view so it was take a pic, view it on the laptop, refocus, take another pic..........etc.......etc........etc