M10 with Lodestar and Starlight Live

[Jim Smith]

I haven't been doing much astronomy of late and it's nice to be out under the night sky again. I have switched from using my mount in alt-azimuth mode to equatorial mode so that I won't have to deal with field rotation on longer exposures. It's all a bit new but I think I did the polar alignment OK. I am also now using a more sensitive Lodestar X2 mono camera and v3.3 of Starlight Live.

Anyway, here is my first effort with this new configuration. I converted from .png to .jpg and slightly darkened the background in Lightroom. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

[AKB]

Nice!  I can see stars to the middle... how do you focus?

[Jim Smith]

46 minutes ago, AKB said:

Nice!  I can see stars to the middle... how do you focus?

I use a Bahtinov mask.

[AKB]

Ah, OK, thanks very much.