whats wrong

[Anthony1979]

3 hours ago, david_taurus83 said:

Hi Anthony. Have you got your 450D to work with APT now?

Before you spend more money on either a goto kit for your EQ5 (£300) or a new mount altogether, you could do "manual" platesolving and goto in APT.

Point your scope where you think your target is, take an image, platesolve in APT, send the result to Stellarium and it will show you where exactly you are pointing including the orientation and field of view. You can then move the scope with the hand controller and repeat the steps. It's still a bit trial and error but a hell of a lot better than blind guessing.

You can follow my tutorial on setting up platesolving here:

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/334568-setting-up-platesolving-in-astrophotography-tool-apt/

Yes i use my misses laptop now thanks

[Anthony1979]

this is my single hit and miss shot of m51 before i processed it

whirlpool.TIF

[Anthony1979]

this is it processed

used my nikon

[Frank the Troll]

You have some dust bunnies there

 

[Anthony1979]

1 hour ago, Frank the Troll said:

You have some dust bunnies there

 

Yes i no it was just a quick single shot... Is that dust on my sensor 

[assouptro]

17 minutes ago, Anthony1979 said:

Yes i no it was just a quick single shot... Is that dust on my sensor 

Yup dust bunnies! 
 

Great to see m51 on the image even if it’s not central though! 

blow the dust off with blower or use some sensor cleaning swabs like these 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NIA545U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_uP3yEb6K3GX8N

But avoid compressed air cans they can deposit small amounts of propellant on the sensor making it worse! 
 

Cheers 

Bryan 

[Anthony1979]

I no its not that good but I was well impressed when i seen it it was just a random shot before packing up for the night

[Frank the Troll]

43 minutes ago, assouptro said:

Yup dust bunnies!

But avoid compressed air cans they can deposit small amounts of propellant on the sensor making it worse! 
 

 

They end up by spreading around and picking up more dust