Beehive Cluster with added spikes!The weather for the last four weeks has been wonderful! Wall to wall sunshine every day, temperatures into the mid 20's. At night the skies have been clear with Venus dominating in the West.
I took out my scopes last week to try out the SLR computerised mount linked to the laptop and 'Starry Night 5' software to control the mount. I was really pleased with the results, got the computer to slew to M5 and there it was for the first time. Tried to image, but made a real mess of focussing the scope. It's quite difficult when switching from the camera to an eyepiece, i'm hoping that the flip mirror will help (when Astro-Engineering and Green Witch decide to send me the adaptor I ordered four weeks ago!)
Captured a nice wide field image of the Beehive Cluster using the ST80 and Canon 350. It's great to have the remote control now for operating the shutter. I don't need to touch the camera at all once set up.
I took out my scopes last week to try out the SLR computerised mount linked to the laptop and 'Starry Night 5' software to control the mount. I was really pleased with the results, got the computer to slew to M5 and there it was for the first time. Tried to image, but made a real mess of focussing the scope. It's quite difficult when switching from the camera to an eyepiece, i'm hoping that the flip mirror will help (when Astro-Engineering and Green Witch decide to send me the adaptor I ordered four weeks ago!)
Captured a nice wide field image of the Beehive Cluster using the ST80 and Canon 350. It's great to have the remote control now for operating the shutter. I don't need to touch the camera at all once set up.
Well, guess what...it's now Bank Holiday and the weather duly changed to wind, rain and cloud just in time! So what's new...never fails does it!!
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