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Need help with D5100 / ETX-60 telescope set up.
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<blockquote data-quote="m4ilm4n" data-source="post: 144979" data-attributes="member: 9926"><p>Unless you have an equatorial wedge for the mount, don't expect much at all beyond the moon. The camera needs to track the object by moving along the plane of the ecliptic (fancy way of saying it needs to cancel out the earth's rotation) because to capture faint images you'll need very long exposure times (the best I've been able to do without star trails is about thirty seconds of exposure; some astrophotographers can do upwards of 60 minutes).</p><p></p><p>The best I've been able to do (and this was nine years ago with an 8" reflector):</p><p>[ATTACH]35275[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m4ilm4n, post: 144979, member: 9926"] Unless you have an equatorial wedge for the mount, don't expect much at all beyond the moon. The camera needs to track the object by moving along the plane of the ecliptic (fancy way of saying it needs to cancel out the earth's rotation) because to capture faint images you'll need very long exposure times (the best I've been able to do without star trails is about thirty seconds of exposure; some astrophotographers can do upwards of 60 minutes). The best I've been able to do (and this was nine years ago with an 8" reflector): [ATTACH=CONFIG]35275._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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