I took this image of M42/M42/NGC1977 on January 12th after re-remembering how to accurately align a mount that isn’t permanently installed. I took about an hour and a half of subs with several having to be rejected for one reason or another. I still am having a problem with my serial shutter cable which I …
After the last imaging session I had I noticed a little bounce in my mount on the RA axis. I decided I could live with that for the night and then resolve it at a later date. The following weekend I spent with my parents and my kiddos at a local kids resort with an …
It’s been fairly eventful the last couple of weeks. With the Christmas holidays there was of course little time for observing with anything more sophisticated than Ye Olde Mk. 1 Eyeballs. After Christmas I took advantage of a warm night and set my mount up for a little testing after installing my Warps Drive upgrade …