first attempt autoguiding

[Erwin Kats]

yesterday night i was finaly ready to try my autoguider, the QHY5 ive made an ST 4 cable myself, and i already got a splitter to split op the RJ6 connection from the losmandy controlpanel.

i had to manage a 300second ( 5 minute( ISO 1000 with 40D ) ) exposure of Mizar and Alcor,Didn't try a longer exposure, i lost the guidestar each time because of the smoke and clouds from a factory,

i have made a crop of the left upper corner of the photograph to show that there is almost no movement in the stars, and the Baader MPCC is doing a great job !

and here a pic of the setup, the cloud you see COMES FROM THE FACTORY, so its serious ....

[barkis]

That is a great result for you Erwin. All you need is some decent sky conditions, and you are good to go. The guiding is excellent.

Nice set up you have there too.

Good Luck with your first serious session. Look forward to seeing the results.

Ron.

[philj]

Well done Erwin and welcome to the dark side. There will be no stopping you now, except when its cloudy of course. Nice set up btw

Philj

[Beyond_Vision]

A great looking result on the stars in the corners, the guiding and MPCC look to be spot on

Lets hope you get some clear skies to try it out for real.

Regards

Kevin

[Psychobilly]

looks like eveythings coming together nicely for your imaging trip Erwin...

It's bad enough having to deal with "Natural" Clouds without having to put up withthe "smoke" from a local factory drifiting through the skies...

Billy...

[steve51450]

Guiding looks great Erwin

glad you got there in the end

[RichieJarvis]

N1 Erwin - shame about the factory

[Erwin Kats]

''thanks'' all

the 20th of march i go on an imaging trip for 1 week, i hope that we get some clear skies, and then i will shoot some objects

[MidnightSun]

Nice going... I just started autoguiding a few months ago and I can't believe the difference it makes...Could never go back. Like digital vs. film shooting...

[Reggie]

I bought a qhy5 this week and I must say its been an excellent guider, no issue with finding a star to guide on, just slew to desired position, take test shot on dslr, pick bright star from test shot and pick it out in liveview, move scope so that framing is correct, pick guidestar, start imaging.

Just for giggles I took a couple of AVIs of the ring nebula using the supplied software, QGVideo, awesome stuff, just like having a mintron The QGVideo software is a bit on the clunky side but useable.

[beamish]

Well done Erwin, always nice when a plan comes together. Hope you like the q5

Karlo