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alacant

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Hi everyone

Well, 4 years on and someone just liked a post in this thread. this prompted me to recall when I had just started trying astro-photography.

I wish I had overcome one of my (many) traits and read @Thalestris24's post fully where I missed a crucial bit of advice. As others are reading this still, maybe I ought to say that the answer is plate solving.

Any camera orientation you like; you choose the orientation which best suits your planned image. Perfect!

Cheers

 

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Here's where you are, courtesy of Registar. I always think it best to have a camera orientated along RA and Dec, either in portrait or landscape, unless there is a good reason not to do so. It ma

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Yessss! Thanks to everyone for the sanity check. I did get a bubble level but only used it to make the RA weight bar horizontal. The biggest clue was in the camera orientation. Gonna see if I can get

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Without knowing the focal length you shot this with its difficult to determine your FOV, however what you need to do is put M86 into the centre of your field, then move it to the right a bit. That sho

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6 minutes ago, alacant said:

Hi everyone

Well, 4 years on and someone just liked a post in this thread. this prompted me to recall when I had just started trying astro-photography.

I wish I had overcome one of my (many) traits and read @Thalestris24's post fully where I missed a crucial bit of advice. As others are reading this still, maybe I ought to say that the answer is plate solving.

Any camera orientation you like; you choose the orientation which best suits your planned image. Perfect!

Cheers

 

Four years on and you are still posting in the 'Getting Started with Imaging' section though! 😇

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3 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

Four years on and you are still posting in the 'Getting Started with Imaging' section though! 😇

Thanks for the mentions. One reason I started with using platesolving was because I was unable to do a proper Polar or star alignment. I've always been severely limited by only being able to image via an open window in my flat, and under terrible skies with awful LP! I can never produce decent long exposure images from here, not even with narrowband 😞 Nowadays, I just do short exposure live stacking with SharpCap and a mono camera, but still use platesolving to locate targets.

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I'm glad I stumbled upon this thread last night after a failed trial run of Markarian's chain. I've now learnt a thing or 2 about camera orientation and framing of targets. The FOV function in Stellarium is going to help immensely.

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