Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Finally my first pictures (M13 & M57) with AZ-EQ6 tracking


It took some time but after reading, looking at youtube video's and visiting the Star party in Ieper last friday, I was able to have a better and stable alignment.

In short I completed following steps of my AZ-EQ6 mount :
1) setting the mount stable and balanced using the bubble of the mount
2) setting the home position - both RA and Dec
3) alignment of the polarstar within the polarscope
4) 3-star alignment using the Synscan of the mount

Visible "goto" observation showed good results with the object in field of focus. Tracking was set and ready to make my first pictures with "long" exposures up to 30s.

Personally I'm very happy about the result of both M57 and M13.