Smash n grab M42

[knobby]

Had a night out in a feild with a mate last night, we were aiming for a bit of polar alignment / guiding practice.

It all went pear shaped very quickly ... He forgot the top half of his mount so we both played with my AVX.

Pole master polar alignment went well, as did PHD2 with an Altair gpcam finder guider on a Zenithstar 71.

Put the Nikon D5300 on and focused roughly with a Bahtinov, then started BYN (back yard Nikon)

Would it connect ? No chance !

Tried various reboots etc. No joy.

So We tried Steve's camera... Canon !

But we could swap T adaptor , yay !

But no, his was a T to M48 to screw straight on his Star 71.

So I bunged my Nikon back on and pressed the shutter manually for about 20 30 second exposures @ 400 iso.

All good fun though and we had a great laugh.

Edit : tried connecting Nikon this morning and it worked straight away ... I laughed , kind of hysterically ?

[Blazar]

Great night! 

[tooth_dr]

Hey it turned out great! Sounds like a great night with your mate 

[knobby]

Thanks for the thanks and comments, Blazar was the mate !

Must have a serious look at changing my Z71 to a Star 71, it's lovely and no flattener spacing to worry about