Re: [APML] Astrophotography 2004 - Price Shock Horror

["Eric Z. Beard" <ericzbeard@yahoo.com>]

It's actually not so bad.  A definite improvement over the barn door if you
stay at short focal lengths, like 50mm, but I was hoping to get into the
telephoto range and 10-15 minutes.  Not much luck so far.  Pushing Provia to
800 and stacking 3-5 minute exposures seems to work well, but that actually
requires *the sky*, which I haven't seen for two months here in Virginia.

Here's my best shot from the SkyViewPro so far:

http://www.honeydewphoto.com/eric/20040328/OrionPiggyback.html

It looks Ok on the web, but the tracking is abysmal if you look any closer.

EZB

> 
> Another proud operater/owner of a skyview pro.... fun
> eh'?
> A little wobbly and the drives dont work the greatest,
> but i can make it work for wide lenses and H-a....auto
> guiders..pfft...who needs'm.

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Eric Z. Beard
http://www.honeydewphoto.com/eric
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