Pleiades: Early tracking

pipplo

Mar 3, 2015 — 1 min read

I got some clear skies and tried out the tracker again. I’ve added a finder scope to help align the tracker better and I think it helped. I tried out the Pleiades since they are relatively easy to find, and the Moon was too bright in the other part of the sky visible from my backyard.

In this gif you can see how the house moves from shot to shot, but the stars don’t move much in the frame. They do move a little bit, but it’s much better than before.
I need to improve focusing, and I am still having some wobble where the mount meets the tripod, but it’s a good start.

Round Top Peak

Round Top was only my second 10k peak summit attempt (my first attempt being the nearby Red Lake peak). At Red Lake we were never able to get GPS over 10k ft for some reason. I think we didn’t find the true summit after searching around for a while,

M42 - One year's progress!

Winter has returned, and with it, a chance to look back on the progress I made this year. M42 was one of my very first attempts at astrophotography! This week I was able to capture 57 minutes of exposure with the telescope, thats a huge increase over January’s 34

M31 - Andromeda

Deneb Widefield

Tonight I decided to try something a little bit different. I show a wider field image with an 85mm lens instead of the telescope. The coloring is very red, but I’m not sure how much is due to Light Pollution or not. There are definitely some dusty structures visible.

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Round Top Peak

M42 - One year's progress!

M31 - Andromeda

Deneb Widefield