its been a good while since I've managed to get out and view with a scope and man o man do you forget stuff !!!!!!
so I'm out early setting up the mount for the 102GT as viewing didn't look that good , lots of haze and dust, plus i was being idle lol
so out i go and do you think i could get the mount to align - lots of swearing ensured.
eventually i thought i had it and slewed to andromeda - nope nothing
, slew to saturn still nothing, by now I'm an hour in and can't even see the obvious stuff, have a go with the 60mm and yes its all there and i can see it !!!!
try again nope still nothing, so i try the camera and swing to the Swan nebula as I've never seen it and CLICK - I'm going to smash this up in a mo, realign , back i go - whoooo hooooo - finally - there is a smudge in the bottom corner - adjust the scope to centre it and keep trying - well after 50 attempts after a long long return this is the best i got - next time its clear I'm getting the big scope out and seeing how much of a mess i can make with that, tracking was poor, focusing abysmal , and the actual sky was wonderful to the naked eye but every thing was twinkling meaning lots of atmospheric disturbance
this is the results of the 50 attempts
Swan Nebula
so I'm out early setting up the mount for the 102GT as viewing didn't look that good , lots of haze and dust, plus i was being idle lol
so out i go and do you think i could get the mount to align - lots of swearing ensured.
eventually i thought i had it and slewed to andromeda - nope nothing
, slew to saturn still nothing, by now I'm an hour in and can't even see the obvious stuff, have a go with the 60mm and yes its all there and i can see it !!!!try again nope still nothing, so i try the camera and swing to the Swan nebula as I've never seen it and CLICK - I'm going to smash this up in a mo, realign , back i go - whoooo hooooo - finally - there is a smudge in the bottom corner - adjust the scope to centre it and keep trying - well after 50 attempts after a long long return this is the best i got - next time its clear I'm getting the big scope out and seeing how much of a mess i can make with that, tracking was poor, focusing abysmal , and the actual sky was wonderful to the naked eye but every thing was twinkling meaning lots of atmospheric disturbance
this is the results of the 50 attempts
Swan Nebula