Auto guiding is a go

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Auto guiding is a go

Postby Big V on Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:33 pm

I have returned from my holiday up in Far North Queensland and have had a chance to try out the new auto guiding camera for my setup. I am pleased to report that I am happy with how it works and shall be doing an extensive imaging run this Wednesday assuming the weather predictions are correct for Adelaide. Here is a teaser from the testing night which was a pleasant 36 degrees after a 42 degree day!
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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby Wink on Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:49 pm

Cool!
I've been waiting for the next series of these after being amazed by the first lot.
Do you have a link to a bigger version?
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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby biggerry on Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:56 pm

there's a few stars in there somewhere :wink:

very nice colour in that image! :up:

Do you have a link to a bigger version?


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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby Big V on Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:21 pm

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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby biggerry on Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:41 pm

try this


ohh yeah...now I can really appreciate how many stars are out there....nice work.

there's gotta be another planet earth out there somewhere, even if you just went on statistics... :roll:
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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby surenj on Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:16 pm

biggerry wrote:
ohh yeah...now I can really appreciate how many stars are out there....nice work.

stars? what stars?? :shock: Seriously There is some amazing detail on this one.

Without knowing anything about this stuff, it looks slightly overexposed? or maybe not?? :?

biggerry wrote:there's gotta be another planet earth out there somewhere, even if you just went on statistics...

:agree:
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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby aim54x on Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:19 pm

WOW....I cant wait to see more photos from this rig.
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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby Big V on Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:58 am

Nope not over exposed just a friggen lot of light from all the stars that are really up there. One of the issues with going long is you start to become over whelmed with star light. There are over a 100 billion stars just in our galaxy alone and some say may be as many as 400 billion. From a dark site you can see about 2 thousand at any one time with the naked eye. Starting to get the picture?
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Re: Auto guiding is a go

Postby dawesy on Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:39 am

More great work!

I'm still waiting on a change to get away from the light pollution and try to get some trails with all the awesome tips you gave us last time. Keep the inspiration coming!
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