Precursor to first light.......

[Tim]

'cause first light proper should be something special, right? And this aint.

With one of the brightest, highest moons I can remember bleaching out everything in the sky, I was content to set my new GSO F4 8" Newt up, wire it all up, re-polar align the mount and start taking a few test exposures to see how long I could go without getting trailing stars. As it was, I hadnt drift aligned, and so about 300secs was the limit.

But I thought I would post this piccy anyways, which is just a small crop taken from the centre of the picture, as it marks the start of a re-direction in my imaging "career" in some ways. New scope, new camera, new software, new method of attaching guide scope, new overdraft.

So here's a little M81. It aint pretty, but when you consider the subs it came from, I'm confident that better is to come when Luna disappears.

Cheers

TJ

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[Psychobilly]

WOW TJ... some serious equipment "upgrades" there looking forward to the real "first light"

Billy....

[ncjunk]

Nice start, let me know what you think of the GSO when you have finished playing with it properly

it looks promising.

Neil C

[MartinB]

Hey, that sounds like set up to me M33 should frame up pretty well with the new kit.