i went to the keller parking lot as suggested twice now, last night and a couple days ago. it's a good spot. figured out how to use the celestron 8 and got a few shots with my DSLR. waiting on the radial guider and a barlow to complete the setup:) saturn is tiny without the barlow but the moon was alright. focus wasn't too good i have to set up a directory monitoring program on my laptop to help with focus. here's what i got last night:
also question about nebulas, i pointed my scope at the sword of orion last night before it set, and did a few 5 min exposures just to see what i could pick up. didn't seem to capture anything on the image but stars, is that because of the IR filter in the camera? i thought i'd get a hint of something at least. karsten
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