Widefield Perseus with astrotrac

[Dave Smith]

I have an engineering friend who made one for me. I do believe there is one available commercially.

Dave

[jgs001]

You can get a hot shoe bracket for a finder from astroboot. I got one from there.

[Andymac79]

I like the idea of a RDF as a guide, Ill look into that for sure

[Dave Smith]

Here is a pic of my arrangement.

Dave

[dwc]

Is that a Revelation?

[JamesF]

You can get a hot shoe bracket for a finder from astroboot. I got one from there.

Can't see one there this morning so I might have to manufacture my own...

James

[Dave Smith]

Is that a Revelation?

I assume you mean the RDF. It is a WO clone bought from Astronomica.

Dave

[shinok]

This was taken at a club astrocamp at a dark site in Suffolk on 13 October 2012.

It was with a modded Canon 40D with a 24-105mm lens set on 24mm at f4 and mounted on an astrotrac.

There are 12 x 5 min subs at iso 800 together with darks and flats.

and with labels

A mouse roll over version can be seen on my website at http://astrosnaps.co.uk/Perseus.html

Dave

Hi dave, That is one amazing photo, beautifull

[Dave Smith]

Thanks Shinok.

Dave

[Ags]

You can buy the rdf shoe from Teleskop Service. I've got one penned in for christmas :-)

[swag72]

It was a treat to look at this Dave, but when I scrolled down and saw the labelled version, that was fantastic. Really good to get a feel of scale and how big stuff is (or isn't as the case may be!!) - Very nice and informative as well - Thank you!

[Dave Smith]

Thanks Sara, much appreciated. Did you try the mouse-over version on my website. That is my preferred method but not possible to do that on the forum.

Dave

[Ags]

There are at least 3 sections of this image I would like to shoot with my 50mm, but what do I see? Cloud, cloud, cloud :-(

[JamesF]

There are at least 3 sections of this image I would like to shoot with my 50mm, but what do I see? Cloud, cloud, cloud :-(

I managed to get some of it last night, though not very well. I'll post the image later. I wanted to try again tonight, but it's just the same here. The really irritating thing is that I can even see clear sky to the west, but we've been covered by cloud all day

James

[fwm891]

Great image Dave. Very impressive and informative at the same time...

[Dave Smith]

Good luck Agnes and James and thanks Francis.

Dave