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Managed to get my hands on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi and had a play around at the weekend trying to get the hang of it. It seems really easy to use, except for the Go To functionality which has me completely baffled (but that's one for another day)! Planning on keeping the MSM as the Skywatcher mount is far too heavy and cumbersome to lug far. This is my first proper attempt at the Andromeda Galaxy from the back garden just trying to get a feel for what's possible before venturing to darker skies. We live in the NW of England, on the edge of a town so light pollution is an issue but isn't horrendous for brighter night sky objects.
I'm starting to get to grips with some of the basics of what seems like a massive learning curve. A vast improvement on the first attempt: Longer focal length, more accurate polar alignment so better tracking - 1 minute subs instead of 30 second subs and just under 2 hours of lights stacked with calibration frames in DSS and processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Plenty of issues still to work on - the core is blown out, a smidge OOF so stars are misshapen with plenty of chromatic aberration and even more integration time required!
Andromeda in August from the back garden by Simon Lundbeck, on Flickr
I'm starting to get to grips with some of the basics of what seems like a massive learning curve. A vast improvement on the first attempt: Longer focal length, more accurate polar alignment so better tracking - 1 minute subs instead of 30 second subs and just under 2 hours of lights stacked with calibration frames in DSS and processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Plenty of issues still to work on - the core is blown out, a smidge OOF so stars are misshapen with plenty of chromatic aberration and even more integration time required!
Andromeda in August from the back garden by Simon Lundbeck, on Flickr
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