[APML] M57 first time ever focal shot

[AikeM.Voelker-Jamin@t-online.de (AikeM.Voelker)]

Hi APML,

finally after waiting for this moment for almost half a year, I got my first 
ever deep sky shot with my 10" SCT working with the complete focal lenght of 
2500mm. My polar alignement was bad, and focusing was a pain due to my camera 
screen, I only have a flatbed scanner with a light led so I am loosing lots of 
image quality there aswell, anyhow am still very excited about my first result. 

Would appreciate if you would take a look at it under:

http://www.geocities.com/astroike/m57f1.htm

To my surprise it was quite simple to find a good guidestar - one hour earlier I 
failed by trying to catch one for M13!  

Any comments are very welcome,

Clear Skies,
Aike
http://www.astrophotography.de

P.S. My appologies if this post had allready been sent a week ago, but      
     unfortunatly I couldn't receive any messages from APML in the last
     7 days - I had to subscribe again! - anyone else had the same problem? 


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