the ease of a star adventurer M42 and Sirius. 4-2-18

[xtreemchaos]

I love how easy the star adventurer is to use, smash n grab 10 frames each 45 sec frames, 

just open the window and away you go.

1000d 35/135 tak lens.

thanks for looking. charl.

Sirius and cluster .I carnt remember the number.

setup.

[newbie alert]

How are you polar aligning it as Polaris is behind you?

[xtreemchaos]

when I had first light with the mount it took about 30min by trial and error moving it and taking 1min sub and looking for long stars and when I got it I marked the floor with a sharpie. charl.

[Davey-T]

Very nice Charl, had the same plan myself last night for a first try out the WOZ61 on the SWSA, just got PAd and focused through holes in the cloud, just got M42 in the corner of the frame and got clouded out 

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

thanks Dave, that's a nice shot mate, that combie going to work well for you, stars are looking good. yes fair bit of cloud here too, I banged off 10 qwick frames of each inbetween the evil stuff at a high iso just to keep my hand in, its ages since ive done some WF. charl 

[AKB]

2 hours ago, xtreemchaos said:

thanks for looking.

Looking particularly carefully, I also see the Flame nebulae visible there.  Nice shot!

[xtreemchaos]

thanks AKB, if its clear later I'm going to go for maybe 3 min subs at iso 400, I will then be able to stretch it to bring the flame out more. charl.

[Space_Plane]

Hi,

Very nice images, I particularly like the range of star colours.

I took my first photos with a takumar 135 last night on my SA, and all the stars have a reddish fringe/halo!

Do you use any filters with yours?

[xtreemchaos]

3 hours ago, Space_Plane said:

Do you use any filters with yours?

thanks mate. no filters use, its a modded cam, ive a strange halo round Sirius, its only the 2nd time ive used the 1000d so it was a quick hi iso set of frames to test. dos your halos go when stopped down my m42 image is three clicks stopped down where the Sirius shot was wide open . charl.

[Space_Plane]

Hi, thanks for the info!

My cam isn't modded, and I was shooting m45 just as a test, so all very bright I suppose, and only 1 stop down at f4. I'll have to try a few more variations when I get the skies and see, I'll maybe make a post in imaging somewhere if it persists. 

I was thinking it might be a focus thing, I just blindly put it at infinity, assumed it would be fine 

Thanks again!