BackyardEOS, the next best thing to sliced bread.

OK, I have heard many times about BackyardEOS for controlling Canon EOS cameras used in Astrophotography.  Unfortunately my 1st generation Digital Rebel (300D) with its now ancient DIGIC-I processor is not a supported platform.  Even though it does have USB and you can trigger the shutter through that you can only use the predefined exposure …

M42/43 once again.

Shot from the backyard in Allen, TX on 2013-01-20 @ 2300 CST.  The seeing was pretty darn good, humidity was high as was the light pollution but it was bearable for my first time seriously out with the scope in a while.  Camera control was through BackyardEOS which I’ve decided is the bee’s knees.  If …